On Beginnings

Most first blog posts are some version of "here's what this blog is about." I've never been able to write one without cringing later. The problem is you're making promises about something you haven't done yet, to readers you don't have yet.

So this isn't that.

I'm calling this place pascanilai. It's a Malay word with no clean English translation. The closest is "post-mortem," but softer. It's the appraisal you give something after it's already done. The trip you came back from, the project you shipped, the argument that cooled. Not the hot take, the thing you only know once the moment has passed.

That's what I want to write here. Short essays on whatever I've been thinking about lately, after I've had time to actually think about it. Craft, taste, software, faith, attention. Probably other things.

If there's a theme, it's how to live well in a world that rewards living fast. I don't have a clean answer yet. The writing is how I'm trying to figure it out.