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Notes from making things.
11 essays and research notes on building, learning, burning out, and beginning again.
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- Could a guitar pedal club work?My dad’s pedal-trading habit led me to ask whether a subscription library could work—and whether buying and selling is part of the fun.
- When doing nothing starts to feel wrong.After years of turning pressure into action, I wonder if my trouble enjoying games and doing nothing is part of burnout, or a deeper dependence on being useful.
- I went looking for Pydantic in RustI went looking for a Rust equivalent to Pydantic and found a more interesting answer: Rust changes where validation lives.
- Your houseplants don't need Wi-Fi.What a plant-monitoring project taught me about designing connected devices around the physical problem instead of assuming every sensor belongs on the internet.
- AI belongs in the learning loop.A first-principles sketch of how AI might support durable learning, personalised practice and better teacher insight—without becoming an answer machine.
- Democracy doesn't need another survey. It needs a feedback loop.Survey fatigue is partly a burden problem. The deeper failure is that institutions keep improving how they ask for input without explaining what happened next.
- Launching AirproxyI'm launching the first of my 12 startups in 12 months for 2023, and we're starting with Airproxy; a platform to help Airtable users scale fearlessly!
- What's next?Well, that was the start to the definitive decade... pretty much a waste of an invaluable chance so far, wouldn't you say?
- Burnout; let's talk about it.2020 was the wildest, most productive, most humbling year of my life to date. I completely burned out, and it sucked. Let's talk about it.
- You are the product.A 2021 reflection on free software, privacy, and personal data, retained with updated links to current Australian cyber-security guidance.
- A better, brighter, cleaner future.A reflection on aligning everyday financial choices with personal values, retained with current links for independently comparing Australian super funds.