The Architecture of Trees
How trees solve engineering problems that humans are still figuring out — from fractal branching to distributed water networks.
— nature, engineering, design
The Last Lighthouse
A keeper tends a light that no ship needs anymore.
— fiction, solitude
The Attention Economy Is a Losing Trade
We sold our concentration for convenience and called it progress.
— politics, culture, technology
The Byzantine Generals Problem, Explained Simply
How computers agree on the truth when some of them are lying.
— computer science, distributed systems
Salt and Geometry
Poems about things that dissolve and things that hold their shape.
— poetry