World Cup 2026: the saddest neighborhood in New York
Every time a team went out of the 2026 World Cup, a New York neighborhood took it personally. A daily grief index across 205 neighborhoods, built from Census foreign-born data.
Work
Music and art. The parts of thinking that don't fit in sentences.
Tectonic Drift
Wherever you are standing has been somewhere else. Drop a pin and follow that patch of crust back through 540 million years.
Spurious Alpha
A toy that lets you bet on a market superstition — the moon, Mondays, prime-numbered dates — watch it beat the market, then watch it lose to doing nothing. Real S&P 500 data, and a lesson in why a rising tide makes any rule look like genius.
Pond
Draw a line and it makes music. A browser instrument with no notes, so there's nothing to get wrong.
Choral Hurdy-Gurdy
An infinite music box: four-part chorales composed and verified live in your browser
MCV
A programming language from the impossible library.
Deaths of Despair Are Two Different Crises
A spatial analysis of US mortality data finds near-zero geographic correlation between suicide and drug overdose. The unified thesis obscures two distinct phenomena with different geographies, different drivers, and different policy levers.
Symphonia: Gothic Groovebox
Designing a digital groovebox that feels different