Editorial · personal essays · custom-designed per entry
Notes,
obliquely.
A slow-blog of films, books, and the occasional album — set in design responses to their subject matter rather than reprinted marketing.
Each entry is its own composition. Fourteen so far.
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№ 14
On Wenders' Perfect DaysKomorebi as a unit of attention.
The film withholds plot the way good rooms withhold furniture — a meditation on the dignity of the small repeated act.
12 May 2026
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№ 13
Reading Calvino backwardsFrom Palomar to the Cosmicomics.
Starting at the introvert and working back to the inventor — what changes when the order of attention reverses.
28 Apr 2026
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№ 12
A film index for slow afternoonsTwelve that earn their pace.
Six films that mistake length for slowness; twelve that don't. The difference is in the cut, not the runtime.
09 Apr 2026
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№ 11
Tufte at the kitchen tableEnvisioning information, domestically.
Notes on rereading Envisioning Information while planning a week's meals — small-multiple shopping lists.
21 Mar 2026
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№ 10
On the Maeda Laws, two decades lateA reread.
Maeda's Laws of Simplicity twenty years on — which laws kept; which collapsed under design-systems thinking.
04 Mar 2026
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№ 09
An afternoon at the StädelThree Beckmanns and a window.
What happens to a Beckmann triptych at 16:40 in February, when the light on the river slides off the wall.
17 Feb 2026
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№ 08
Notes on shipping with an LLM in the loopEval-discipline as a moral practice.
The hard part of AI-assisted product work isn't prompts — it's the eval set you'll never want to look at twice.
02 Feb 2026
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№ 07
Sebald in the U-BahnRings of Saturn, line by line.
Reading The Rings of Saturn on the U4 between Bockenheimer Warte and Bornheim — a digression about digression.
14 Jan 2026