The essays below are research notes, summaries and compressions of ideas I am curious about (or have cared for at some point). They serve as a memory and reference for talking about these subjects.

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All articles are evolving documents that are reshaped as new information, understanding and time permit.

The essays are also an experiment: Some texts have been processed by a large language model to perform various changes, transformations and corrections. In most cases the model was used as a shortcut to create a readable synthesis of notes, context discovery and exploration of counterfactuals. The substantive basis of all texts is my own and represent my judgement of what is important (unless noted otherwise). As such these texts raise an interesting question of how we detect such processed information that is worth our attention when everyhting looks equally polished.

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Finding the Commitment

Why commitment matters more than correctness, and how to find one worth keeping.
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Prototyping the Loop

How to find the invariant: the relationship that reveals what moves and what the player wants. What prototyping is actually for.
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Making the Thing

A generative companion to the analytical framework. How to find your governing commitment, derive your core loop, and use diagnostic checkpoints to see what’s emerging.
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When the Proxy Breaks

Technology keeps cheapening craft surfaces that audiences use to detect quality. The pattern, and its resolution, is older than LLMs.
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Unity Architecture for Growing Projects

A modular architecture that works with Unity’s grain: modules, hosts, contracts, and orchestration for scaling from prototype to production.
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The Studio Primitive: Promise → Proof → Cut → Ship

Studios routinely fail not from lack of talent but from lack of a repeatable process for turning intention into evidence. Without one, decisions default to taste, politics, or fear, and the gap between ‘what we believe’ and ‘what we’ve proven’ widens until it becomes the budget.
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When the Funnel Eats the Work

How the attention economy turns distribution and discourse into selection pressures that reshape the work itself—and how to spot conversion vs. capture.
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