Thinking
Ideas about how we see before we decide.
Essays, research, audio, and observations about interpretation, judgment, decision environments, artificial intelligence, organizations, and modern life.
Essay · August 28, 2026
The Body Does Not Care How Good Your Plan Is
What does exercise reveal about the distance between understanding the work and doing it?
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“Action gives thought something that thought cannot give itself: contact with reality.”
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Decision environments
The conditions surrounding a decision - language, incentives, institutions, information, expectations, and assumptions - that shape what becomes visible before a choice is made.
Artificial intelligence and interpretation
What happens when machines increasingly summarize, rank, recommend, filter, and interpret the world before humans encounter it.
Global mobility
How movement between countries, cultures, languages, and systems changes what people notice - about identity, belonging, opportunity, and possibility.
What are we not seeing because of the way the situation has already been framed?
Shorter forms
Another way into the ideas.
Three Things
Lists that find an unexpected angle on something familiar.
One Decision
One person. One concrete choice. A close look at what is really at stake.
Museum of Normal Things
Ordinary objects given the institutional attention they rarely receive.
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Research
The research behind the questions.
The scholarly work behind these public questions: interpretation, decision environments, organizations and legitimacy.