A collection of essays, observations, and questions inspired by the themes explored throughout my fiction.
Human nature. Ambition. Meaning. Faith. History. Science. Transformation.
The visible life and the forces operating beneath it.
Some ideas become novels.
Others remain notes.
Featured Essay
Why Does Time Feel Faster Every Year?
Most of what shapes a life happens quietly.
We stop noticing the streets we walk every day, the objects we’ve held a thousand times, the conversations we assume we’ll finish later. Yet beneath these ordinary moments lie the hidden structures that shape memory, attention, technology, institutions, and modern life.
Every essay begins with something familiar and follows it until it becomes strange again. The goal isn’t to escape everyday life, but to see it more clearly.
Why Does Everything Feel Fake?
We have more information, more authenticity, and more ways to connect than any generation before us. So why does ordinary life increasingly feel like a performance?
From AI and algorithms to architecture, photography, and trust, this essay explores one of the defining psychological experiences of modern life: the unsettling sense that representations are becoming more convincing than reality itself.
Why People Ignore What They Already Know
Most turning points do not arrive as revelations.
They arrive as recognitions.
The truth was already there.
People simply were not ready to admit it.
How Intelligent People Lie to Themselves
Intelligence is supposed to help us find the truth.
Sometimes it helps us avoid it.
The smartest people are often not trapped by ignorance.
They are trapped by explanations.
The same intelligence that helps us solve problems can also help us rationalize bad decisions,
protect our blind spots, and defend stories we no longer realize we’re telling ourselves.
An exploration of self-deception, motivated reasoning, identity, and the elegant lies intelligent people tell themselves.
The Stories We Tell Ourselves to Stay the Same
Most of us assume we’re responding to reality.
More often, we’re responding to stories we wrote years ago and quietly mistook for identity.
This field note explores how those narratives outlive the evidence that created them,
shaping our choices long after the world has changed.