The desk

Longer pieces, with the workings left in.

Every piece names its sources. Where we relied on somebody else's estimate, we say so, and where we did the arithmetic ourselves we show it.

Aug 16, 2026
I rewrote the same articles sixteen times. Line editing made them worse.

I assumed word choice was what made writing read as machine-made. Sixteen scored rewrites later I do not believe it, and the ranking surprised me.

Editing
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