m. moed
Summer 2026
From the desk

A note about
doing many things
at once.

Working at Trusona has stretched my thinking in ways I didn't expect. The thinking lands on paper. The paper lands here.

— signed, MM

I'm an operator at Trusona, working on identity impersonation and deepfakes. Outside the work, I follow the kind of curiosity that wanders — charts that are wrong, phrases doing too much work, details that turn out to be the whole point. More →

I'm building an NH35 watch for my partner and restoring a 1943 Elgin A11. The last record I bought was Death Stranding 2: Songs From the Game. Magic: The Gathering decks come together on the side.

A place for small experiments — a chart that actually changes your mind, or type that won't sit still.

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