Notes from an Unfinished Bookshelf
A first reflection on books as systems that continue beyond the final page.
Read essayNotes from within the system
The essays extend the books, research, and applied systems into shorter public reflections. Some are philosophical and literary, written from inside the Living Literature world. Others are methodological, exploring longitudinal text analysis, identity trajectories, and the use of large language models to study change over time.
Together, they form an ongoing archive of field notes, conceptual essays, and working observations.
Two Series
Living Literature
Essays on reading, identity, belonging, reflection, and the unfinished life of books.
Longitudinal Notes
Essays on narrative change, text analysis, LLM methods, and the study of identity across time.
Recent Essays
Identity Is Not a Snapshot
Why many questions about selfhood are really questions about trajectory.
Read essayWhy Most Text Analysis Misses Change
On the difference between scoring a text and observing a narrative across time.
Read essayRead the Full Archive
All essays are published through Substack as part of an evolving public archive. The website provides the map; the essays provide the working notes.
Some ideas belong in books. Others arrive first as notes.