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Ideas and notes as they come together — on belief and evidence, seeing and light, ancient texts, and building things meant to last. Subscribe by RSS.
You cannot argue someone out of a belief
An essay on why argument rarely shifts a belief, and what does: the interplay of trait, state, and the psychological work a belief quietly performs.
#belief#persuasion
A herbarium for texts
An essay arguing that honest knowledge infrastructure must preserve originals with provenance, keep derived claims separate and cited, represent "unknown" as a real value, and hold scholarly disagreement side by side rather than flattening it — built around the image of a herbarium for texts.
#scholarship#open knowledge
Belief is a probability, not a switch
An idea essay on holding beliefs as probabilities rather than switches, why certainty is the real trap, and how calibration keeps honest updating possible.
#belief#evidence
Seeing is a discipline
An essay arguing that seeing is a trainable discipline of attention rather than an innate talent, grounded in southern Alberta landscape and light, and connected to the honesty of looking at evidence before interpreting it.
#photography#seeing
Why I built this
Why this site exists: a durable home I own, and a promise to think out loud across belief, evidence, seeing, ancient texts, and building things that last.
#notes