Short essays on purpose, pleasure, and the places in between.
Field notes from the studio, written as we build in features we think matter.
On the different reasons that bring a campus back together each fall, and why alignment is a moment, not a guarantee.
On looking back at an old sense of direction you have since abandoned, and resisting the urge to call it a mistake.
What it is like to have coffee with someone who seems to know exactly where they are headed, and what actually rubs off.
How a place you never thought twice about can, after a hard stretch, turn out to have been carrying more weight than you realized.
People have been asking what makes a life meaningful for thousands of years. It is strange that the question now comes with a scoring key.
On the ordinary stretches when a meaningful place stops feeling like much of anything, and why that is not a warning sign.
A parking-lot taco truck, and six completely different reasons people are loyal to it.
Why trying to define your purpose in one clean sentence usually backfires, and why that is not a failure.
Why meaning rarely shows up on the first visit, and what it means that you kept going back.
What separates a quick, pleasant cup from a place that quietly organizes how you think about your life, and why the difference is worth naming.