Distance to Settlement

The Treadmill at Altitude

Declining the game is not naivety. It is buying, at full price, the right to choose which games are worth playing at all.

Root Asymmetries

Organizations do not run on their stated incentives. They run on the quiet difference between what is said and what is routed around.

Rolling sage-green hills dissolving into thick morning fog, a dark line of conifers low in the frame
The valley holds its fog until well past noon, most of October.

Why "Distance to Settlement"

On naming things after the gap between where you stand and where things finally close.