Thoughts
Longer-form pieces.
Where Playground entries are quick — one chart, one takeaway — Thoughts are the longer pieces. Data essays. Interface notes. Things that need room.
The cadence here is slower; the work per entry is larger.
- The Rising Vocabulary of Distress A reading of Google Books, Google Trends, and the CDC. May 2026
- Flood, floor. Ten million AI tracks generated every day. The number anyone actually hears is two orders of magnitude smaller. The money is smaller than that. May 2026
- Borrowed magic. Universes Beyond, mass reprints, denser text boxes — a data essay on what Magic: The Gathering is made of in 2026. May 2026