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 releasing Pharus, the joy of building it, and an app made for noticing when purpose shows up.
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.