Built for myself. Published because they worked.

Writing

Notes from a small studio. Three threads run through what I write here — spreadsheets (what the data showed me when I actually measured what I was doing), hidden gems (places worth the trip, with photographs), and craft notes (the smaller pieces — on writing, on designing a $9 tool, on paying attention). Each piece is a standalone read; the templates that grow out of them are in the store.

Hidden gems
The Kohechi — the pilgrim route no one walks
April 22, 2026
Four mountain passes above 1,000 meters, five villages, one route the regional tourism bureau will not let you start without a reservation for every village you are going to sleep in. I have not been there. I have been reading about it for two weeks.
Hidden gems
The Brion tomb is not a tomb
April 22, 2026
Carlo Scarpa built a two-thousand-square-meter L-shaped garden for a family that made radios, and then was buried standing up in one of its corners. An armchair note from the Veneto.
Spreadsheets
How we use a Google Sheet to pace a competency-based software engineering term
April 22, 2026
The row I keep coming back to is October 2025: two CUs, forty-one study hours, one new Elden Ring spinoff. The sheet didn't tell us not to buy the game — it told us, the following Sunday, that we weren't on pace for a December 2027 graduation anymore.
Spreadsheets
What tracking 200 options trades in a spreadsheet taught us about our own bad habits
April 22, 2026
A year into running an options account together, our P&L was roughly flat and none of us could say why. So we started keeping a spreadsheet.
On deck

More hidden-gems pieces from the rabbit-hole list, and the first of the craft notes — shorter pieces on writing, on small-tool design, on paying attention. Cadence is slow on purpose.