Create

The making side of things — writing, building, side projects, and the long slow business of figuring out what you want to put into the world.

I'm a writer and photographer by trade, but most of what's here is broader: the apps I'm building (currently Voluta), the systems I use to keep a creative life from collapsing into chaos, the workflows that survived after I stopped pretending I was going to journal every day, and the honest economics of what it costs to make things on the side of a full-time job.

If you're a creator, freelancer, or someone with a "thing I want to build" list growing in a notes app, this is the section for you.

Less hustle culture. More how-the-sausage-gets-made.