Writings
Essays and notes on philosophy, tech, and health.
Philosophy
Preference Is Taste and/or CostWIP
A model that splits preference into taste and cost: functional questions are largely cost questions, aesthetic/experiential ones largely taste questions.
Philosophy
Unnecessary Unpredictability
Seeking and waiting of unknown length waste cognitively useful time, so choose or build the predictable option unless certainty costs more.
Tech
Cheaper Abroad: How the Price Data Is Built
cheaper-abroad.com compares what things cost in Da Nang, Bangkok and Budapest with what they cost at home. Every number is a dated observation from a named source, nothing is ever deleted, and a quarterly report freezes the whole database. This is how that data is built.
Philosophy
The Information Consumption Framework
A four-layer framework for converting information from any form into the form you want to consume it in.
Tech
How to Run 20+ Agents Comfortably (October 2026)
My practical, temporary setup for running 20+ coding agents across cheap always-on servers: Tailscale, closed ports, herdr, Cloudflare tunnels, backups and monitoring.
Philosophy
Prove Cost over Nonzero Added Value: 1 + E - C > 1
A request to make the cost of rejecting extra value explicit: explain why C exceeds E.
Philosophy
Language Gaps in Benevolence and Malevolence
A vocabulary map of envy, jealousy, resentment, begrudging, well-wishing, and spite across English and Dutch.
Philosophy
In Defense of Arbitrary Classification
Any arbitrary classification can be useful to someone, so it can't be dismissed as useless — usefulness doesn't require accuracy.