This piece first appeared as the start of my correspondence with Krish Khubchand ([@krishkhubchand](https://twitter.com/krishkhubchand) on Twitter).
In it, I collected some thoughts on Venkat Rao's evergreen 'Product-Driven versus Customer-Driven' essay, which I've been meaning to do for years.
You can read the original posting as well as subsequent correspondence [here](https://letter.wiki/conversation/1152)!


Thoughts on 'Product-Driven v. Customer-Driven'

This piece first appeared as the start of my correspondence with Alpha Barry ([@alphaxbarry](https://twitter.com/alphaxbarry) on Twitter), in which I asked him some questions about architecting charter cities.
You can read the original posting as well as subsequent correspondence [here](https://letter.wiki/conversation/1150)!


Two Emergences in Architecture

This is a short overview of my role at Resonance, starting with an overview of what Resonance is and where my approach to design fits in. 
If you’re interested the path I took to get here, you can read about how I became Resonance's designer and the ever-entertaining how I came to Resonance in the first place. 
As time and confidentiality allow, I’ll be able to give a walkthrough of create.ONE itself, as well as tell the story behind how it was designed.


Design At Resonance

'Computation Becomes Geometry' is the title my undergrad thesis, the outline of which I'll be defending soon in hopes of being awarded a degree by the same name.
Below is the framework document for the thesis, an impressionistic overview of the progress I've made in my research as well as an outline of the principles that I've shaped during my studies.
If my defense is successful, I'll start work on the concluding phase of my thesis, [interactions.pt](http://interactions.pt), which is a a more concrete project based on the principles identified in my framework.


Computation Becomes Geometry

The contents of my research library. It's much, much larger than this, but needs more work and tidying before the entire thing can be exposed externally, so stay tuned!


Sources

Reposting one of my papers from earlier in college. My topic of inquiry: Given how much care we put into post-surgical care, why don't we devote more to pre-treatment mental preparation?
A little derivative of Scott Alexander and not the exact style I would go for today, but still readable, which isn't true of every paper I wrote back then!
Also a bit heavy on the theorizing a bit light on the research, but unfortunatnley the stresses of finals season force one to be less discerning in their work than they'd like. 


The Medium is the Bandage

Someone said that the vast majority of value in the world lies untapped, locked away in connections left unmade, and I'm starting to see how valuable that framing is.
I'm really introverted, and updating my persepctive to be the initiator and be open by default has been one of my main goals for the year. So far, so good!




Open Invite

Things are highly unpolished and experimental right now, so set expectations accordingly. Feedback extremely welcome.
I'm spoiled at work with an entire engineering team that builds my designs. This site is the first time I've tried coding an entire project by myself, so go easy on me!
God bless all you front-end engineers, this stuff is maddness.


Colophon

Thoughts on Yulia Frumer's paper "Japanese Reverse Compasses: Grounding Cognition in History and Society."


Death & The Reverse Compass

Towards a theory of ambient intimacy and predictable identities.


Understanding (Social) Media

Review of Samuel Jay Keyser's book _The Mental Life of Modernism: Why Poetry, Painting, and Music Changed at the Turn of the Twentieth Century._


Why Modernism

Wittgenstein's architectural follies offer a strikingly poetic parallel to the evolution of his philosophy. 
