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Writing

Long-form pieces I've written and chose to publish: structured arguments, reasoned analyses, and (eventually) the conventions I've settled on after enough time thinking about something.

Two flavours, listed separately as the collection grows:

  • Essays — extended reasoning about a question, usually starting from first principles. Each one is a deliberate, revisable artifact, not a dated post.
  • Standards — opinionated takes on things I think have a better default than the one most people use. Units, dates, notation, naming.

Essays

Why is US Healthcare So Expensive?

A first-principles analysis of why US healthcare costs 2–3× what comparable countries pay. Walks through the thought experiment of opening a cheaper hospital and discovering, one by one, the regulatory and contractual structures that block it. Five direct barriers, two secondary factors, and what a working reform package would change.

Standards

Default stuff for compatibility

The conventions I've settled on after enough time picking sides: units, dates, electrical notation, screw types, file formats, CAD preferences, hotkeys, programming style. Some I wish were universal (they're just better). Others are personal preference, kept here so I stop re-deciding them.

When a piece grows big enough to deserve its own repo, it'll live there with a link from here.