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The Art of Wander.

A book in progress about why good things reach a flourish and then get optimized to death, and the benchmark I built to test the idea.

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    Book Writing5 min read

    The Art of Wander: Things Reach a Flourish, Then We Optimize Them to Death

    The idea behind the book I'm working on, where it came from, what it's shaping up to be, and the parts that still don't hold together.

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    Writing Journal5 min read

    Measuring the Flourish: What a 50-Case Benchmark Held Up and What It Didn't

    How I tried to turn "things reach a flourish, then get optimized to death" into a scored benchmark, and what the reliability checks did to my early numbers.