Wonder
Wired to wonder.
Essays and notes on physics, consciousness, building things, and the questions I can't put down. Written slowly. Updated when I change my mind.
Upcoming book· In progress
A book about panspermiaThe idea that life travels between worlds — and what follows if it does. A builder's look at one of the oldest and strangest hypotheses in biology, written for people who like their science with the uncertainty left in.
Title, publisher and date to come. If you want to read early chapters or talk about it, say hi.
Nothing published yet. The first few are in the works, below.
In the works
Titles I've committed to. Hold me to them.- Draft· PhysicsWhat physics might be missingA builder's notes on pattern formation, emergence, and why the equations we have might be describing the shadow rather than the thing.
- Draft· Building · PeopleWhy curiosity beats intelligenceThirty years of hiring, funding, and building taught me one thing about who wins. It isn't the smartest person in the room.
- Draft· Physics · CosmologyThe Galactic Synchronization HypothesisA possible answer to the Fermi paradox that doesn't need anyone to be dead, hiding, or uninterested.