The Hidden Costs of Convenience
How always-on connectivity reshapes how we think, work, and interact — and what we quietly trade away for frictionless experiences.
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Piso Mojado
Stay Cautious and Don't Slip
Technology
Observations on the systems and tools shaping the modern world.
Open Source in 2025
The state of collaborative software development — who funds it, who benefits, and what the next decade of open-source looks like.
Read more →AI at the Edge
Processing intelligence closer to where data is created. What on-device AI means for privacy, performance, and the future of cloud computing.
Read more →The Quiet Comeback of Mechanical Keyboards
Why a generation of developers and writers is paying $200 for something that types the same letters as a $15 membrane board.
Read more →Passwords Are Still Broken
A frank look at why, after decades of better alternatives, the 8-character password still haunts us — and what's actually changing.
Read more →Who Owns the Infrastructure?
Behind every website and streaming service is a surprisingly small number of physical cables, data centers, and corporate agreements.
Read more →Technology Literacy
Plain-language guides for navigating the digital world with confidence.
Gaming
Commentary, culture, and observations from inside the medium.
Balatro and the Joy of Purposeful Randomness
How a poker-themed deck builder became the rare roguelike that respects your time and intelligence.
Read more →The Quiet Return of Turn-Based Strategy
Why slow, deliberate games are winning players back — and what the genre's resurgence says about how we actually want to spend our time.
Read more →Accessibility in Modern Games
The industry is finally moving the needle on inclusive design. Here's what's changed, what still needs work, and why it matters for everyone.
Read more →Playing Old Games on New Hardware
Emulation, legal grey areas, and the genuine cultural argument for preserving video game history before it disappears entirely.
Read more →General Knowledge
Curiosity-driven writing on history, science, and the world around us.
Did You Know?
The wet floor sign's universal design was standardized by the International Organization for Standardization as ISO 7010 symbol W011 — the same yellow triangle with a falling figure appears in more than 160 countries.
Why Maps Are Always Wrong
Every flat map distorts reality in some way — size, shape, distance, or direction. The impossible geometry of flattening a sphere, and the political choices baked into every projection you've ever seen.
Read more →The Science of Slipping
Friction coefficients, surface tension, and the surprisingly deep physics behind why wet floors are genuinely dangerous — and why the warning sign exists for good reason.
Read more →Lost Languages and What They Tell Us
From Linear A to Rongorongo, some scripts have resisted every attempt at decipherment. What the undeciphered texts of history reveal about human civilization — even in silence.
Read more →The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Misunderstood
The famous study gets cited constantly and misrepresented almost as often. What the original research actually showed — and what it means for how we evaluate our own competence.
Read more →Religion
Thoughtful writing on faith, theology, and the practice of belief.
Featured Essay
Certainty, Doubt, and the Virtue of Caution
Across traditions — Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Buddhist — the great spiritual writers share a surprising commonality: a deep suspicion of certainty. Not of faith, but of the kind of rock-solid confidence that stops listening.
"The beginning of wisdom is knowing what you don't know. The practice of wisdom is staying curious anyway."
This is a meditation on epistemic humility as a spiritual virtue — the idea that remaining open, remaining cautious, remaining willing to learn is not weakness of faith but its fullest expression.
Read the full essay →What the Desert Fathers Got Right About Attention
On stillness, distraction, and the ancient practice of paying attention in a noisy world.
Sacred Spaces in a Secular Age
Why places set apart still matter — and what we lose when we stop making them.
Reading Scripture Slowly
A case for lectio divina and the kind of reading that isn't trying to get anywhere.
From the Blog
Recent writings from across all five topics — a mix of everything.
When the Floor Is Wet: On Navigating Uncertain Ground
Across every domain covered on this site — technology, faith, games, facts — the challenge is the same: how do you move confidently through a world that is, by nature, slippery? A cross-topic reflection on caution as a way of life.
Read the full post →The Algorithm That Almost Knew Me
Recommendation engines are remarkably good at predicting what you'll want next. What they can't predict is who you're trying to become.
Read more →Why I Gave My Phone a Bedtime
Screen time limits, app blockers, and grayscale mode — an honest look at what actually worked when I tried to take back my attention.
Read more →The Perfect Game I'll Never Finish
Some games are meant to be completed. Others are just places you return to. An appreciation for games that are better left unfinished.
Read more →Five Things I Didn't Know About Bread
Until I made it myself. On the unexpected lessons that come from doing something simple with your hands for the first time.
Read more →Silence as Spiritual Practice
In a world saturated with input, the hardest discipline isn't fasting from food — it's fasting from noise. What tradition teaches about the gift of quiet.
Read more →Open Source and the Tragedy of the Commons
The infrastructure the internet runs on is largely maintained by volunteers. This is not sustainable, and everyone quietly knows it.
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