notes
Marginalia and method.
Notes are short, often methodological — observations about the practice of observation itself, and the small adjustments to attention that long-horizon work requires.
April 8, 2026
A note on what monitoring systems do not monitor
Observability tooling tends to surface what it was designed to surface. The interesting drift usually occurs in the regions it was not.
/ operations/ blind-spots3 min
March 14, 2026
On the practice of long-horizon observation
Some patterns only resolve at timescales longer than a planning cycle. Observing them requires a deliberate refusal of the planning cycle's rhythm.
/ method/ observation4 min