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Things that finished on the desk.
Some pieces are part of a longer thread; others stand alone. The series live on the left, the standalones on the right. Most of these began life over on my desk.
SERIES
Threads I'm pulling on for a while.
Linear Algebra from Scratch.
Notes-to-self while I work through 3Blue1Brown and Strang. Written for the version of me who didn't take this in undergrad.
BRCA SEO.
What I learned trying to make a plain-language genetic-testing guide actually findable, without buying ads and without performing on TikTok.
- BS-01 Apr 18, 2026
What 'People Also Ask' tells you about fear.
Twelve seed queries, ninety-six suggested follow-ups, and a pattern that was hard to look at.
- BS-02 Apr 25, 2026
The keywords adoptees use are different.
The standard family-history triage doesn't apply, and the search behaviour reflects that. Notes from the data.
STANDALONE
One-off pieces.
Matrescence is not postpartum depression.
A short distinction that took me a year of reading to make cleanly. With references.
Read Mar 30, 2026An intake form is a thesis statement.
What a clinic chooses to ask first tells the client more than the website ever will.
Read Mar 12, 2026Looking for one true sentence.
On personal statements, throwaway drafts, and the Hemingway trick that finally helped.
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OFF THE DESK
Things that left the desk.
Not everything becomes a post. Some things became projects. Some things just finished.
Looking for the reading list, watchlist, and other ongoing things? They live at /now