About

Marginalia is a space for writing about the things that reward slow attention: books, sentences, ideas, habits of mind. The name comes from the notes readers leave in the margins of pages — evidence that a text was met with a real person, thinking.

I write here when I have something worth saying, which is less often than I would like. Most of the essays begin as notes to myself — things I needed to think through, questions I could not answer easily, observations that kept returning. Writing them out is part of how I understand them.

What this is

This is not a newsletter, a platform, or a content strategy. It is closer to a reading journal that occasionally becomes public. The topics are whatever I am thinking about: attention and distraction, the craft of writing, the experience of reading, the quieter questions about how to spend a life well.

I try to write at the length the subject needs and no longer. Some pieces are short. Some take more space. The aim is always clarity — to say the thing as plainly and honestly as I can.

On the design

The site is intentionally spare. Nothing competes with the text. The reading experience should feel like opening a book, not loading a website.

Contact

The best way to reach me is by email. I read everything and reply when I can. If something you read here was useful, surprising, or worth arguing with, I would genuinely like to know.