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Distillations is a collection of personal and technical writing. Or, if we’re being candid—and we are—, a homesick mathematician who also writes about feelings.

First time here? Entries with an asterisk are some of my favorites.

Short form

Technical diary
Link blog (Twitter mirror)

Mathematics and engineering

setFailureType, setOutputType, and initial objects*
An operator fusion primer*
Writing a Combine operator: variadic zipping
Conditional flatMap’ing
Operator etymology
Deriving reactive from imperative: an introduction to duals

Personal

Introducing Substrate
Bodies of work*
To my unread books*
Untaken opportunities*
Invisible badges: handling long-term injuries*
Slowing down the web
Ladder construction*
Seek perspectives, not mentors
Slowing down time
Alone in parallel
Digital drift
Time under tension
Ambient intimacy
Emotional ranges: a way to think about empathy*
Crafting space to be ourselves
Peeling off labels
No response needed
Chasing earned fatigue
The interplay between high-cadence and well-formed thoughts
Digital attics and service shutdowns
Pouring my whole self into work
Finite steps in infinite feeds: my story with information overload
Nostalgia and upper bounds
Always-on conversations