Dispatches

Long essays, written carefully.

Each dispatch is a sustained piece of thinking about digital tools, attention, and how we organise our working lives. Published when the thinking is ready.

A cleared desk surface in early morning light — one notebook, one pencil, nothing else
Attention 8 min

The Attention Budget

Most productivity advice tells you to manage your time. The harder problem is what you do with it.

A single browser window open on a quiet, uncluttered desktop
Tools 6 min

What a Slow Browser Taught Me

An experiment with intentional friction and what it revealed about habit versus preference.

A phone placed face-down on a wooden surface, screen hidden
Digital Clarity 7 min

Against Notification Culture

The architecture of interruption was designed by someone who wasn't thinking about you.