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.

Charts · Visualization

Visual Communication

Experiments in communicating data and ideas through charts and visual storytelling.

Not published yet

Maps · Cartography

Mapping & Spatial Communication

Small mapping projects exploring how spatial information can be communicated clearly and visually.

Not published yet

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. № 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
  2. № 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.

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.