questions

open, unhurried, and mostly unanswered. if you're sitting with one of these too, that's a reason to email.

• how much of what i want did i catch from someone else? the audit never ends.
• when does an operating system become a cage? asking for a friend who builds them.
• can taste be built, or only inherited and sharpened?
• what does the second brain owe the first?
• if who i am is a curated catalogue of what i've collected, is the collecting the work - or the hiding from it? (the essay that keeps asking me this)
• is the dangerous life a young man's story, or a discipline you can keep?
• what would i build if no one could ever see it?
• which is the headline - the integrator, or the thing he's building for himself?