COMING SOON
Serious studies on the tiny, human, everyday things that shape modern life.
I’m working on a series of micro-anthropology pieces — part observation, part data, part founder-researcher brain, part playful curiosity. Think: rigorous methods, whimsical topics, and insights grounded in real human behavior.
Here’s a preview of what’s coming:
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SOCIAL WORLDS & MICRO-COMMUNITIES
Social Clubs
Why people join them, who thrives in them, and the tiny rituals that emerge inside curated belonging.
The Founders Scene
A field guide to the behaviors, identities, and micro-myths of modern founder ecosystems.
Dog Parks
Status dynamics, owner archetypes, silent negotiations, and the social networks dogs create for humans.
Bus Micro-Communities
A day observing a single bus line to map the worlds that co-exist in motion.
Comment Threads
How micro-tribes form in the margins of the internet — norms, leaders, in-jokes, and conflict dynamics.
Frontier Tower
A high-level look at an emerging founder-led community experiment.
Remote, Hybrid, and In-Person Work Communities
How workplace structures shape belonging, communication, and micro-cultures.
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DATING, RELATIONSHIPS & MODERN CONNECTION
In-Person vs Online Dating
How expectations, vulnerability, and cues differ across mediums.
How People Track Their Dates
Spreadsheets, journals, voice memos, and “vibe logs” — a taxonomy of emotional record-keeping.
Dog Doppelgängers
A playful, data-backed analysis of whether owners really resemble their dogs.
Stages of Dating
A behavioral map of spark, uncertainty, calibration, and clarity.
How Online Dating Site Vibes Differ
The aesthetic, cultural, and emotional “design choices” each platform makes — and how users respond.
Singles Events
Micro-performances of hope, attraction, and social strategy.
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IDENTITY, WORK & MODERN SELVES
Types of Notes People Take
What note-taking styles reveal about attention, cognition, and personality.
Types of Coworker Relationships
A taxonomy of allies, confidants, collaborators, and “office siblings.”
What Is a Career?
How people conceptualize work today — ladders, lattices, quests, experiments, and meanders.
Professional Networks
What they’re actually good for: opportunity, identity, knowledge, and emotional scaffolding.
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MEDIA, CULTURE & INFORMATION
Why People Watch Reality TV
Motivations across genres: comfort, escape, spectacle, drama, and human pattern-recognition.
Where People Get News
How platform choice shapes worldview, identity, and trust.
Generational Emoji Differences
A linguistic comparison of emoji use across generations.
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EVERYDAY OBSERVATIONS & FIELD NOTES
Farmers’ Fairs
Taste, identity, and the social psychology of produce choice.
Observation From X Place
Micro-ethnography from a coffee shop, park, library, farmers market, or bus.
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DATA, AI & MODERN SYSTEMS
Anthropic Usage Analysis
A data-driven exploration of country-level adoption patterns, language-model accuracy, and AI access.
How Online Communities Emerge
The invisible patterns behind early micro-collectives, norms, and identity formation.
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PLUS MORE
As I follow conversations, questions, and tiny obsessions in the world around me.