LEFT HEMISPHERE · ANALYTICAL

Left Brain Dominant

A blog about technical and analytical topics. Every post has a sister post on the other side.

  1. 17 Gait, Cadence, and the 2 Hz Human over there: Walking Is Thinking With Your Legs 2026-02-08 · 5 min
  2. 16 Boredom as an Unallocated Attention Signal over there: Nothing To Do and All Day To Do It 2025-08-24 · 5 min
  3. 15 Naming Things Is a Cache Invalidation Problem over there: What You Call It Changes What It Is 2025-03-30 · 5 min
  4. 14 Forecasting Past Day Ten Is a Category Error over there: The Sky Has Moods and I've Met Them 2024-11-17 · 5 min
  5. 13 Debt Is Just Time With Interest over there: Owing Somebody Something 2024-05-05 · 5 min
  6. 12 The Mechanics of the Setup-Punchline Delay over there: Why the Third One Is Always Funnier 2024-01-21 · 5 min
  7. 11 Handwriting as a Dying Compression Format over there: Your Hand Knows Something You Don't 2023-09-09 · 5 min
  8. 10 Chess Is Solved-ish, and That's Fine over there: The Board Is Staring Back 2023-06-18 · 5 min
  9. 09 Rivers Solve for Least Resistance over there: The River Remembers Where It Used To Be 2023-04-02 · 5 min
  10. 08 Crowd Density and the Physics of Panic over there: How It Feels To Become a Crowd 2023-01-14 · 5 min
  11. 07 Money as a Shared Hallucination With Receipts over there: The Smell of Other People's Money 2022-10-30 · 6 min
  12. 06 Every Map Is a Lie With Error Bars over there: Drawing the Coast Until It Feels Right 2022-08-11 · 6 min
  13. 05 Twelve Tones and Why We Stopped There over there: A Song Is a Room You Can Enter 2022-05-24 · 5 min
  14. 04 Color Does Not Exist Outside Your Head over there: Blue Was Invented Late 2022-03-08 · 5 min
  15. 03 Cities as Throughput Problems over there: The City Is Somebody's Nervous System 2022-01-19 · 5 min
  16. 02 Memory Is Lossy Compression over there: Everything You Remember Is a Forgery 2021-11-02 · 5 min
  17. 01 The Architecture of Sleep Debt over there: What the Dark Does With You 2021-09-16 · 5 min