Founder of Essay Architecture & Essay Club. Previously an architect and VR specialist, but started writing online during the pandemic (July 2020) through Write of Passage. Newly-minted father. Etc. (will rewrite this later)
About
Looking For
Feedback on Essay Architecture, the app, the system, the club interface. Anything! Always happy to jump on a call to hear your thoughts and ideas.
Times Available
Either 12-4pm ET or 4-8pm ET on weekdays.
Topics Interested In
Writing, Design, Technology, Psychology
Writing Style
Aspiring to write multi-dimensional essays that are dense but relatable
Current Project
Essay Architecture is the big one. I see it as a modren technology-forward institute for the essay. There's a curriculum, a club, a library, an app, a prize, and an anthology, so far. Goal is to keep converging on this, while figuring out how to evolve and sustasin it. SImultaneously, I want to keep an essayistic writing practice that is divergent, so I'm trying to use Substack Notes as a place to write shorter essays (500-750 words).
Publishing History
2026
On separating craft & taste
Essay Architecture is an objective/formal systems that looks only at the compositional patterns in an essay. There's value in that. But since essays are so personal, and since an essayist …
On written family history
This has been on my mind, so figure I should try to formalize it into an essay. This *might* be part of a series of letter/essays addressed specifically to my …
Unsent newsletters #1
There is a time and place for streams of association, and this is neither (prev: "wall-o-text")
A semi-experimental essay that progresses through stream of association; I started thinking I wanted to send this to my audience, and by the end, I come to the conclusion on …
How should an essay writer read differently?
On building a syllabus, reading analytically, and the 12 essays we're reading in Essay Club
Turned our kickoff workshop into a longform essay that covers a range of things about how essay writers should read. Also kicked off my weekly newsletter (missed a week, but …
On automating heroic astronauts
Project Hail Mary
Wrote a bunch of essays on my site this month, average length was 600 words or so. In three cases, longer form essays came out, and this was one of …
The Semantic Press
Reimagining Tocqueville's remedy to tutelary power in the age of AI
Submitted this on 5/4 + another few essays in April. 4 total.
We are big floating heads looking for our bodies
A conversation with Tommy Dixon
Published an essay based on my interview with Tommy Dixon. Made a good dent in "The Signal in the Slop" draft too, which will be the introduction of The Best …
Winners of the $10k essay prize
Congrats to Tommy Dixon and the 10 finalists in our new print anthology, The Best Internet Essays 2025
I ended up pausing my work on "micro-institutes" and published the annoucement for Best Internet Essays 2025. This is maybe a good example of future weekly essays I could post, …
Notes after fatherhood
I posted 5 Notes in January, between 200-800 words. I wrote a draft of the essay I wanted to publish, but it didn't make it through. I have a better …
2025
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December 2025
Reflections on newborns, Bauhaus, timelessness, infinite, robots, Voltaire, male nesting, Claude, TetherOS, Harada method, techno-activism, corporate architecture, Santa, Kenya, formaldehyde, epistemic adverbs, etc.
Quality is the Transcendence of Categories
Announcing the judges for the 2025 Essay Architecture Prize & the judging system that will shape the anthology
Very happy with the thesis that emerged from this: there isn't a single metric that can determine quality, but you can see up a bunch of categories, and notice which …
I'm giving $10,000 to the best essay of 2025
And the finalists will get published in a printed Metalabel anthology (submit by 11/23/2025)
Atomic evaluations, NYC, Dia browser, UBI speculation, essay culture, cranky neighbors, "For you, for all of humanity!", Hiromi, usage, AI horror, Montaigne in a vat, etc.
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The Babbling Idiot and the Tribe
Did psychedelics guide human evolution, or is the Stoned Ape Theory just for stoners?
2024
Essay Writing as Personal Sovereignty
Shaping AI to preserve the slow craft of critical thought