a notebook, kept in public.

I'm maxubrq. I write here about things that feel worth thinking about slowly: a physics problem that stuck with me, a piece of software I finally understood, a painting I kept coming back to, a sentence that would not leave me alone.

Some of these essays come with a thing you can play with — a small simulation, a diagram that responds to a slider, a figure that recomputes itself. I think of writing and interaction as the same craft: both are attempts to hand someone a thought in a form they can turn over.

what i write about

• Science Whatever makes me curious. Math, physics, and everything in between.
• Tech Two modes: writing to explain, building to ship.
• Philosophy Deep questions. The joy of sitting with them.
• Art Cinema, literature, music. The arts as a form of thinking.
• Thinking Half-thoughts. Notes from the margins of my own life.
• Notes In conversation with what I read.

Not in the menu reached only from here the vault → A private cabinet — the books, records, papers, films and objects that belong to me, each with a line on why. A quieter room off this page.

elsewhere

• GitHub @maxubrq
• Email max @ maxubrq.com
• RSS /feed.xml

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