A notebook of books.

The internet you know is a small park inside a vast country.

Re-read. The chapter on attention finally clicked: open-source maintainer fatigue is a stand-in for every kind of public-internet fatigue. We optimized for participation and forgot to design for stewardship.

Hopeful in the right places, naive in others.

Best when describing the actual classroom and the actual student. Less convincing where it strays into industry projection — but the through-line about teaching being a relationship survives.

Re-shapes how you see your own paragraphs.

Read in two sittings, then re-read more slowly. Klinkenborg makes you suspicious of every transitional phrase you've ever written. I now write shorter.

A field guide to staying still.

Snyder is the rare writer who can use the word 'wilderness' without it sounding like a brochure. I keep this one near the desk.