Thoughts

A notebook
in public.

Maps, observations, experiments, and occasional rabbit holes.

A place for things that do not quite belong in a paper, project report, or CV. Some of it may grow into larger projects. Some of it will stay small. That is part of the point.

Selected Experiments

Things I make

A home for maps, visualizations, audio, and other small experiments in communicating ideas.

Audio · Podcast

Audio & Short-Form Communication

Experiments in explaining an idea through sound rather than text or visualization.

Not published yet

Field Notes

Things I notice

Short observations from cities, transportation systems, travel, and everyday life. Think photographs, short paragraphs, transit oddities, and maps found in the wild.

Field notes coming later.

Written Thoughts

Things I think about

Longer notes on cities, transportation, institutions, research, books, and other open questions.

  1. № 03 Reading Thoughts Who Decides, Who Pays, Who Benefits A keyboard, a waste incinerator in Chester, and my uncle’s pig farm—three ways of asking what evidence is enough to justify changing an energy system, or leaving it alone. On Power Lines · Sanya Carley & David Konisky Sep 2026
  2. № 02 Reflections CoThinking I rarely ask a language model what is true. I ask it for something to react to—and somewhere in the disagreement, the thinking starts. On how I use large language models · Five principles Aug 2026
  3. № 01 Reading Thoughts Banks, Fees, and My Father What a five-dollar bet about fine print taught me, and what it could not explain once I moved to the United States. On The Unbanking of America · Lisa Servon Aug 2026

Newest first. More notes as I finish them.

Teaching Thoughts

  1. № 01 Listening Tour Five Years Later, What Should Students Retain? Sep 2026

Experiments

  1. № 01 iOS · Travel behavior · N-of-1 HHT: A Travel Survey of One A private iPhone app that runs a household travel survey on one person, every day. It rebuilds each day into visits, trips, modes and trip chains, and keeps the data on the phone. 2026

Research questions live on the research page. The record lives in the CV. The person lives on the about page. Everything else goes here: things I make, things I notice, and things I think about.