Language. Faith. Memory. Systems.
A blog about overthinking everything that matters (and some things that don't).
Dew of Your Youth is about thought, memory, matters of faith, and the systems we build to keep our thinking from dissolving.
Jewish texts, personal workflows, family archives, and languages learned along the way.
If you’ve ever tried to organize your soul with Markdown, welcome.
Language learning as obsession, memory systems, and pedagogy.
Obsidian, Hugo tweaks, DevOps rants, scripts that almost worked.
Jewish rituals, Torah journaling, spiritual processing, the Elul Logs.
Genealogy deep-dives, travel stories, cultural identity unraveling.
Tech & Tools
Personal Ops: Learning From Its Own Mistakes
Aug 28, 2026 11 minutesA voice note got misread as a literal agenda item called ‘whatever I missed.’ The fix turned into a general system for catching ambiguous commands, logging corrections, and a plan to move routine parsing off the API and onto a local model.
Learning & Languages
My Arabic Music Liner Notes
Jun 16, 2026 30 minutesTwenty Arabic songs across Tunisian, Algerian, Levantine, and Sudanese dialects — liner notes for training your ear, song by song.
Tech & Tools
Count First, Interpret Second
Jun 2, 2026 7 minutesMy personal-ops bot’s weekly digest kept turning noisy logs into confident diagnoses. The fix was one rule: count first, interpret second, diagnose cautiously.
Tech & Tools
Reed, Not Cedar: Building a Productivity System That Bends With You
Jun 2, 2026 11 minutesI built a Telegram bot to offload my executive function and accidentally gave myself a taskmaster. So I rebuilt it around one rule from the Talmud and the Daode Jing: be a reed, not a cedar — firm but yielding, advisory not prescriptive.
Tech & Tools
Don’t Clip Your Wings: On Building Systems That Push You Toward Greatness
May 31, 2026 6 minutesCompletion rate is a trap. The moment your productivity system scores you on what percentage of commitments you finish, the rational move is to stop writing down anything you might actually fail at. I ran into this building my own personal ops system, and it turns out fixing it means thinking about Item Response Theory, Glicko ratings, and the Sharpe ratio.