Notes on reading, writing, and how we actually change.
Short essays, published as they come. One a week, more or less.
All essays
Answer their point first. Yours goes last. That is the whole skill.
Two people take turns producing sentences and nothing passes between them. The fix is a sequence, and the reason it fails is attention.
We finally have one example of creation. It has an org chart.
Creation by many, with specialisation and levels of authority, is the older and more widespread account. It is also what the only observable case looks like.
We are not living our lives. We are rendering them, frame by frame.
A life is not experienced as a continuous thing. It is single frames and a story we wrote to connect them.
Cervantes sold Don Quixote outright. His publisher kept the rest.
Cervantes sold the printing rights in 1604 and never earned another maravedí from them. The mechanism behind that has not gone away.
Joshua Bell played a metro station for 43 minutes. Seven people stopped.
A world-class violinist earned thirty-two dollars in a metro station. The playing was identical. The frame was not, and the frame is what decides.
I taught yoga in Granada without Spanish. The body was all I could say.
I taught yoga free in Granada and stopped. The philosophy I actually wanted to teach undermines the format I was teaching it in.
Six of my books are finished. Two people have read them.
Seven books in four years. One published. My editor and my wife are the entire readership of the other six, and I am fine saying so.
Sony sues Anthropic. Self-published authors are not in the room.
Anthropic settled with authors for 1.5 billion dollars. The list was drawn from pirate libraries, which is why most of us are not on it.
Read this before you quit your job to write
We read the statistics and quietly file ourselves outside them. What four years of writing without income actually teaches you.
200 agents said no. Now they need me more than I need them.
For four years I have been trying to be chosen. Starting yesterday, I am also a market.
Vibe Coders Learned This. Vibe Authors Have Not.
Bad code gets caught. A flattened voice passes every check. Why AI multiplies craft in writing rather than replacing it.
Seven Books, Four Years, Two Hundred Agents, No Deal
Seven books, four years, two hundred agents, no deal. What the write-a-book-for-passive-income advice leaves out, from someone who did it anyway.
India Fixes the Gate Because Fixing the Building Is Harder
India lowered its medical entrance bar to minus 40 marks. The problem was never who gets in. It is everything after.
What fiction teaches that non-fiction can't
The case for reading across genres — and why I'm writing both.
Four Frameworks I Tested Against My Real Life — and What Actually Survived
Atomic Habits, Ikigai, Frankl, Covey — four self-help frameworks tested against actual difficulty, and what survived. From the author of Unfold, released 16 June 2026.
How to read a book you won't remember in a month
Reading for retention, reading for effect, and the difference that matters.
Why I still read self-help
On taking seriously a genre most readers pretend to have outgrown.
