https://mikegeary.co/ The personal ledger of Mike Geary — essays on attention, tools, design, money, and whatever else holds my attention long enough to become a sentence. No images. Just type. en Sun, 24 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT mikegeary.co static builder https://mikegeary.co/writing/notes-on-brutalism/ https://mikegeary.co/writing/notes-on-brutalism/ Sun, 24 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Design Brutalism online is usually mistaken for ugliness on purpose. It is actually the opposite — a refusal to hide the structure that was there the whole time. https://mikegeary.co/writing/tyranny-of-the-feed/ https://mikegeary.co/writing/tyranny-of-the-feed/ Tue, 12 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Attention An infinite scroll has no bottom by design. The absence of an ending is not a feature you forgot to turn off — it is the entire product. https://mikegeary.co/writing/why-i-write-in-plain-text/ https://mikegeary.co/writing/why-i-write-in-plain-text/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT Tools A defense of plain text as a durable, fast, ownable medium, and an argument that constraint is the thing that lets you think. https://mikegeary.co/writing/the-geometry-of-a-good-day/ https://mikegeary.co/writing/the-geometry-of-a-good-day/ Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT Life Good days are not the fullest ones but the ones with a recognizable form: a few poles placed early, and a lot of protected nothing in between. https://mikegeary.co/writing/the-compound-interest-of-small-bets/ https://mikegeary.co/writing/the-compound-interest-of-small-bets/ Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT Money The case against the big swing: how small, asymmetric, survivable bets compound into a life the single grand gamble can never buy. https://mikegeary.co/writing/on-doing-things-badly/ https://mikegeary.co/writing/on-doing-things-badly/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT Essay Perfectionism is procrastination wearing a better suit. The only way to do a thing well is to first do it badly, on purpose, in quantity. https://mikegeary.co/writing/how-to-read-a-book-you-disagree-with/ https://mikegeary.co/writing/how-to-read-a-book-you-disagree-with/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT Reading On steelmanning in the margins, the difference between reading to win and reading to understand, and why the books that annoy you are the ones worth finishing. https://mikegeary.co/writing/the-case-for-boring-technology/ https://mikegeary.co/writing/the-case-for-boring-technology/ Thu, 05 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT Technology On choosing proven, well-understood tools over shiny ones, and why 'boring' is the highest compliment you can pay a piece of infrastructure.