Strange Clarity

Passing from words to matter

My first byline, my current obsession with making miniature things

Nov 7 • 

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September 2025

The compulsion to capture: from cave walls to camera rolls

On photography as shield, solace, and the ancient urge to depict the world

Sep 17 • 

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Work is broken: Marx, alienation, and the Great Pretending

How a viral post on the death of the corporate job echoes Marx’s 19th-century critique

Sep 4 • 

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August 2025

On shifting interests and writing a newsletter

Considering my August travels over an ocean and through books and what it means for this newsletter

Aug 29 • 

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The "god trick" and how we read authority

Against the view-from-nowhere: speaking with location, limits, and responsibility

Aug 18 • 

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What fish can teach us about mental disorders

How outdated categories shape what we think we know — and who suffers for it

Aug 6 • 

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July 2025

Am I autistic enough?

If you think you're autistic but a professional said you're not, this is for you

Jul 29 • 

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What your writing reveals about you (even when you don’t know it)

Sounding the alarm over a July 2025 study on LLMs and autism detection

Jul 22 • 

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Why is autism so common now?

Seven big, bold reasons for why it feels like autism is everywhere these days

Jul 21 • 

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A thinker's notebook: writers, autism, and Wittgenstein

Three mini-reflections with language at the root

Jul 16 • 

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Could a drive for certainty be key to autism?

Reframing special interests, systemizing, and social difficulty through a new lens: intolerance of uncertainty

Jul 8 • 

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Setting the scene: how visuals and memory intertwine in autism

Why difficulty with scene construction may block memories of life events

Jul 2 • 

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