A Cascade of Miscalculations
An evidence-led argument about a war built on failed assumptions—followed by a separate human layer that refuses to make Iranian lives disappear inside strategic language.
Selected writing
Long-form analysis, strategic critique and political comedy.
Writing is where the evidence, human stakes and slightly unhinged observations are allowed to remain in the same room.
Status matters. This archive distinguishes completed drafts, working papers and pieces still in development. A title appearing here does not pretend the piece is already published.
The Fanning Twinks of Iran Zamin
A comic and unsettling essay about Tehran’s luxury bubbles, selective enforcement and the strange experience of buying private escape from a system that manufactures restriction.
Kami and the Lying Biscoff
A strategic review of a global rebrand—and the case that Biscoff should have been built on top of Lotus, not built by erasing it.
When the assistant became the office
How an AI research collaborator quietly became an archive, project desk, household administrator, care log and second brain during a year of political and personal rupture.