What I Took From The Correspondent
Reflections on attention, correspondence, family, and place after reading The Correspondent.
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VIEW ALLTools I Actually Use: Google Sheets
Why Google Sheets sits at the center of my systems, with Apps Script and AI layered in deliberately.
Tools I Actually Use: Instacart + ChatGPT
How I use Instacart and ChatGPT together to plan meals, build grocery orders, and keep food decisions contained and predictable.
What I Took from My Struggle Book 2 by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Unfinished adulthood, relationships, shame, ambition, and fatherhood in the second volume of My Struggle.
Finishing Anna Karenina and What It Stayed With Me
Reflections on completing Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina and my connection to Levin, the novel’s tragic core, and the force of its characters.
FIELD NOTES
VIEW ALL January 25, 2026 SUNDAY Perry Hall, MD
We woke up to several glorius inches of snow today. Baking, reading, and football are on the agenda.
January 13, 2026 TUESDAY White Marsh, MD
I discovered brunch way too late in life. Highly recommend Lib’s Grille and The Local if you are anywhere near Perry Hall or White Marsh.
Featured Books
Books with enough highlights to change how I think or work.
The Wolves of K Street
Brody Mullins and Luke Mullins
7 highlights
"Joseph Coors Sr., of the beer brewing empire, and in 1973 he funded the creation of the Heritage Fou..."
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
10 highlights
"But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’—that gives a choice. It might be the most import..."
How to Take Smart Notes
Sönke Ahrens
7 highlights
"The trick is that he did not organise his notes by topic, but in the rather abstract way of giving t..."
Connect
I share new tools, workflows, and reading notes every few weeks.
Blog
VIEW ALLWhat I Took From The Correspondent
Reflections on attention, correspondence, family, and place after reading The Correspondent.
Tools I Actually Use: Google Sheets
Why Google Sheets sits at the center of my systems, with Apps Script and AI layered in deliberately.
Tools I Actually Use: Instacart + ChatGPT
How I use Instacart and ChatGPT together to plan meals, build grocery orders, and keep food decisions contained and predictable.
What I Took from My Struggle Book 2 by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Unfinished adulthood, relationships, shame, ambition, and fatherhood in the second volume of My Struggle.
Finishing Anna Karenina and What It Stayed With Me
Reflections on completing Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina and my connection to Levin, the novel’s tragic core, and the force of its characters.
Field Notes
VIEW ALL January 25, 2026 SUNDAY Perry Hall, MD
We woke up to several glorius inches of snow today. Baking, reading, and football are on the agenda.
January 13, 2026 TUESDAY White Marsh, MD
I discovered brunch way too late in life. Highly recommend Lib’s Grille and The Local if you are anywhere near Perry Hall or White Marsh.
Featured Books
Books with enough highlights to change how I think or work.
The Wolves of K Street
Brody Mullins and Luke Mullins
7 highlights
"Joseph Coors Sr., of the beer brewing empire, and in 1973 he funded the creation of the Heritage Fou..."
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
10 highlights
"But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’—that gives a choice. It might be the most import..."
How to Take Smart Notes
Sönke Ahrens
7 highlights
"The trick is that he did not organise his notes by topic, but in the rather abstract way of giving t..."
Connect
I share new tools, workflows, and reading notes every few weeks.