The Heavy Life

What happens when you stop consuming and start making — your food, your furniture, your home, your community — with your hands, and on purpose.


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Essay: Seventy-Four Posts

I went dark in 2019 — deleted Facebook, Instagram, Twitter. Scorched earth. I refuse to carry a smartphone. I'm loud about what these platforms have done to attention, to children. Then I started a business, and within six months I had an Instagram account.

17 February 2026 · 4 min read min read

Essay: Seventy-Four Posts Essay: Seventy-Four Posts Dispatch: Rain, and a Place for the Gear Dispatch: Rain, and a Place for the Gear
The first time a chisel bit into a piece of timber the lie of the digital world was exposed.
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Essay: Seventy-Four Posts
17 Feb 2026 · 4 min read min read

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Notes from the workshop, the kitchen, and the table
Dispatch: Rain, and a Place for the Gear
12 Feb 2026

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