I didn't set out to be a physicist. I set out to understand things — machines, systems, people, language, why some structures hold and others collapse. Turns out the same principles keep showing up everywhere. I've been working out seventeen of them. This is where I write about that.

Hey, Spock, this way.

Seventeen principles from every swamp, forest, and dead-end road I ever walked.

Pizza and paper

On the virtues of doing your own thing for your own reasons