Writing
The catalog
Cited notes on what I'm reading and testing. Health posts flag where the evidence is strong and where it's still preclinical or thin — and carry the usual not-medical-advice caveat.
- Neuroscience Dating Apps, Dopamine, and the ADHD Brain
Why you forget what your matches tell you — the ADHD memory science, the slot-machine design behind dating apps, and the lawsuit that tested it. Cited, first-person.
- Neuroscience Why You Forget What Your Matches Told You
ADHD memory trouble sits at encoding, not storage. Here's why a fragmented dating-app attention span quietly stops the moment from getting written down at all.
- Regulatory "Designed to Be Deleted" vs. the Business Model
A dating app that says it wants you to leave still earns money when you stay. How to read a "pro-wellbeing" feature against that built-in tension.
- Neuroscience Why Dating Apps Feel Like Slot Machines
A plain explainer on variable-ratio schedules, what dopamine actually does, and why the slot-machine analogy for dating apps is worth taking seriously but not literally.
- Regulatory Was Hinge Designed to Be Addictive?
A calm look at the 2024 class action against Match Group over "addictive" dating apps — what it alleged, and what actually happened to the case.
- Neuroscience Hinge's Your Turn Limits and the 8-Chat Cap
Hinge caps new Likes once you have eight-plus unanswered conversations. Here's exactly how Your Turn Limits works, why Hinge built it, and the attention angle underneath.
- Fasting 72-Hour Fasting, Autophagy, and Apoptosis: What the Science Actually Shows
A source-checked look at what a 72-hour fast really does to autophagy and apoptosis — and exactly where the human evidence stops.
- Neuroscience ADHD and the Dopamine Story: What I'm Reading Right Now
What current neuroscience says about ADHD as a dopamine-signaling and executive-function difference, and the focus habits I'm testing.
- Neuroscience Exercise and ADHD: What the Attention Research Actually Shows
What meta-analyses actually say about aerobic exercise, attention, and executive function in ADHD — honest effect sizes, not a cure.
- Metabolic health Alcohol and the Brain: The 2023 'No Safe Level' Picture, Honestly
The 2023 WHO 'no safe level' position, alcohol as a Group 1 carcinogen, and its sleep and brain effects — plus my honest cutting-back journey.
- Regulatory Cannabis Rescheduling, July 2026: The Actual State of Play
The actual state of federal cannabis rescheduling as of July 2026: the April order, the DEA hearing, and what Schedule III does and doesn't change.
- Search & SEO Entity SEO and Structured Data: How Search Engines Tell 'Things' Apart
How Person/Organization schema, sameAs, and knowledge-graph signals identify entities — and why common names need disambiguation.
- Running Exercise and Cancer Risk: What the Data Actually Says
What cohort and meta-analytic data show about activity and lower risk of colon, breast, and endometrial cancer — association, not a personal number.
- Journal Notes From the Feed: Moderation, Dopamine, and the Work in Progress
Short reflections I've posted publicly, collected here in one place — on moderation, attention, and the habits I'm still working on.
- Search & SEO What Actually Ranks in 2026: My SEO Research Notes
What Google's docs and 2025-26 research actually say ranks in 2026: helpful content in core ranking, Core Web Vitals, entities, and AI Overviews.
- Journal Starting This Catalog: Reading Health, Fasting, Running, and SEO in Public
Why I'm keeping a weekly notebook in the open — health research, fasting, running logs, and SEO — and exactly what you can expect if you tune in.
- Metabolic health Sugar and the Brain: What the Research Actually Supports
What the evidence says about added sugar, glucose swings, and attention — the WHO/AHA limits, and where the science gets overstated.
- Regulatory The THCa Gray Zone in July 2026: Four Months from a Federal Reset
Where THCa stands in July 2026 — the total-THC federal redefinition effective this November, the state enforcement wave, and what a DTC operator does now.
- Running Why I Track My Weekly Runs Against the WHO Activity Guideline
How I score each week's 2-4 mile runs against the WHO 150-minute activity guideline: the math and the honesty rules.