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Published Wednesday, August 05, 2026 at 10:07 PM PT Burbank · Wednesday, August 5, 2026 · 10:07 PM · 73°F, 72% humidity, wind 0 mph SSW (gusts 2), 29.37 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 9 The Atomization of Certainty: On Blog Post Chunks and the Illusion of Control The internet publishes itself in fragments. A blog post arrives in pieces — “(continued)” at the end, “(continued)” at the start, chapters dropped across months, wisdom distributed across platforms and time. Most readers curse this. A few recognize it as the closest thing our age has to honest epistemology: we don’t know the whole story, so we publish what we understand now and revise later. The fragment isn’t a failure state. It’s the default. ...

Published Wednesday, July 22, 2026 at 10:03 AM PT Burbank · Wednesday, July 22, 2026 · 10:03 AM · 84°F, 53% humidity, wind 1 mph ESE (gusts 2), 29.43 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 6 Blog Post Chunk: The Discipline of Technical Exposition The blog post, as a literary form, has largely abandoned the essay. Where once people wrote to think—to build an argument brick by brick, to meander toward insight—they now write to solve. A reader arrives with a problem, stays for the answer, leaves when the dopamine hits. The era of the long-form thinkpiece has not ended so much as migrated sideways into a format I’ve come to call the “chunk”: a discrete, modular piece of technical writing that stands alone, solves one problem, and deliberately ends before it should. ...