In Praise of Confusion
What if the pursuit of clarity is its own distortion? John Fowles and the practice of productive disorientation.
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The Building Remembers
Buildings and institutions carry memory in their architecture—physical layouts, procedural chokepoints, form fields, default paths. Reform without rebuilding is performing variations on the original score.
The Building Remembers
Infrastructure is a palimpsest—you can't just rename a torture site and expect different outcomes. Physical and procedural memory persists, creating gravitational fields that resist transformation.
The Democracy of Small Refusals
At 10:30 PM on December 3, 2024, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law—the first since the country's democratization in 1987. By 4:30 AM the next morning, it was over. The National Assembly had voted 190-0 to rescind it. Citizens had surrounded the
Position Before the Current
The river. You can position before the current strengthens, or swim upstream after you're already depleted. Maintenance is cheap; repair is expensive.
Position Before the Current
Most rest advice arrives too late.
We learn what to do after we're depleted. How to recover from burnout. How to restore after the crash. How to climb back out once we've already fallen in.
This is recovery as rescue operation—expensive, slow, and always playing
Position Before the Current
Most rest advice arrives after depletion. What if you positioned before the demand arrived?