Essays, prize-winning pieces, and a Substack.
A theoretical physicist observes his son's mental bootstrap. Following a little language machine from first principles — physics, fatherhood, and the algebra of mind. New, ongoing, and written in the margins of everything else.
Read on Substack →Life probably isn't meaningfully quantum. The argument runs through the algebraic structure of quantum theory itself — not from decoherence timescales but from what quantum mechanics actually is and what it would take for it to matter at physiological scales. The secondary conclusion is more interesting: what the question reveals about our models.
A short story written for the University of Maryland quantum thermodynamics hub's short story contest. A dreadful pastiche I had real fun writing.
Evil as an emergent property. Begins with a broken lighter.
Read →A morning in a city park, an interrogation on acid, and a very long wait for beignets.
Read →Five years in the American South. It's the final one percent that's proving so troublesome.
Read →The difficult second album. Previous critical reception: "certainly a lot of words."
Read →Mardi Gras in full episcopal vestments, on acid. A report.
Read →A pedagogical proto-textbook (co-authored with Denys Bondar and Andrii Sotnikov)
arXiv:2509.20403There are more fragments, drafts, and documents that have not yet been excavated from various hard drives. They will appear here when they do.
Eventually