Likes & Discoveries
People, books, tools, words, and places that stay with me.
PersonTheo Browne
A builder whose projects and conversations make software worth paying attention to.
ProjectT3 Code
An open-source workspace for coding agents, bringing agent conversations and code review into one interface.
PersonJohn Wooden
A book, a pyramid, and a different way of thinking about success.
BookThe Essential Wooden
A Lifetime of Lessons on Leaders and Leadership. A collection of Wooden's thinking about leading people, preparing a team, and sustaining standards.
PersonPeter Steinberger
Follow the person behind OpenClaw—and the tools and writing around his work.
ProjectOpenClaw
An open-source personal AI assistant. Explore the official repository for its current capabilities, documentation, and setup guidance.
PersonAnders Ericsson
Peak, purposeful practice, and the science of developing expertise.
BookPeak
Secrets from the New Science of Expertise. A starting point for understanding Ericsson's research into practice and exceptional performance.
PersonKun Chen
Tools, demonstrations, and ideas for directing agents through real engineering work.
ProjectHermes Agent
Nous Research's agent, its approach to memory, and the skills it carries forward.
ProjectGod's Eye View
A spatial intelligence project that puts public data into a visual, explorable globe.
PersonMichael A. Singer
The Untethered Soul, the ideas inside it, and ways to keep exploring.
BookThe Untethered Soul
The Journey Beyond Yourself. Singer's exploration of awareness and our relationship with thoughts and emotions.
FrameworkThe Pyramid of Success
Wooden organizes qualities of success into a visual framework. Explore the original diagram and the explanations on the official site.
TalkThe difference between winning and succeeding
Hear Wooden explain his view of success in his own voice. A short way to get to know the person behind the book.
IdeaDeliberate practice
In Ericsson's framework, deliberate practice is a specific form of purposeful practice, informed by established knowledge of expert performance and effective training methods, often with a qualified teacher.
IdeaPurposeful practice
Practice with specific goals, focused attention, feedback, and work beyond your current comfort zone. It can be purposeful without meeting the narrower requirements of deliberate practice.
FrameworkYerkes–Dodson curve
A familiar curve about arousal and performance—with an important role for task difficulty.
PersonAbraham Lincoln
The growth, words, and encounters that brought Lincoln and Douglass together.
SpeechLincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
Slavery, responsibility, and reconciliation at the end of the Civil War.
PersonFrederick Douglass
An extraordinary voice whose encounters with Lincoln became a story of growth and friendship.
BookFrederick Douglass’s autobiographies
His life in his own words, across three autobiographical works.
PlaceFreedmen’s Monument
A commemoration of emancipation, and the occasion for Douglass’s tribute to Lincoln.
SpeechDouglass at the Freedmen’s Monument
A love letter to his friend: Douglass looks back on Lincoln and the distance they traveled.
Follow a name. Explore an idea. See where it takes you.
HOPPER THREADS
Follow something unexpected.
Stories connecting people, works, and moments—with a reason for every step.
A mother’s witness, a movement’s resolve
A decision to let the public see, a remembered child, an activist’s resolve, and a community that organized. The connections are real; none requires treating a movement as the work of only four people.
Two pence, a voice, a farewell
Follow a quiet song through the people and films around it. What begins as a small act of care leads to another household finding its voice—and a melody that becomes a goodbye.
Three nights in the stands
Gibson, Muncy, Freeman—and the experience of being there. Public footage supplies the shared record; the collection owner’s recordings will add the view from his seat.
When trying harder needs a better plan
Belief, commitment, and practice answer different questions. Follow a reading path that makes those differences useful rather than declaring one book the answer to learning.
What can an act of mercy change?
A gift, a life under judgment, a brother who listens, and a story about freedom. This is an editorial reading path across two novels—not a claim of direct literary influence.
Lincoln and Douglass: where their paths meet
The thread is about how Lincoln and Douglass were at odds and then their trajectories intertwined. Lincoln grew, and Douglass grew too. Douglass came to judge Lincoln by what a man could do in his time. The lesson is not the harshness; it is the harmony where they ended up.
Brown, the war, and the price of slavery
Brown’s warning, Sherman’s experience, and Lincoln’s later words form a question I want to explore.
A song marches on
A failed raid, a soldiers’ song, words written before dawn, and a voice in Memphis.
