Writing

Here's thewriting.

Essays and doodles about grief, memory, and the urge to treat people like systems you can repair. A few live here. The rest are on Substack.

In progress

the book I'm writing

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WaveformIn progress

Grief, Memory, and the Systems We Build to Survive. A memoir.

I know my mother is dying. I do not know what that means. Those facts occupy the same room without touching.

From Chapter 1, “Waveform” · draft

On this site

The SEO Double Standard

How information visibility became a class system. For the wealthy, the internet is a whiteboard. For the poor, it is a tattoo.

On the Relative Proximity of Arlington, Washington to the Canadian Border

A comparative analysis of ordinary geographic speech, and the formal designation of the Edmonds Fallacy. Journal of Applied Geographic Pedantry, Vol. 1, No. 1.

On Substack

@jacobrakai ↗

The Complaining Witness

Qui tam pro domino rege quam pro se ipso in hac parte sequitur — the whistleblower's Latin.

Shifting to neutral.

A reduction of dimensions.

The New Dawn of Pig Butchering

Hunting for good will.

You are thirty-two years old and they hand you a file.

On passing, performing, and what stays in the car.