I write about songs that wait for you and shows that work if you let them.
The thread is the same. Stay with the thing long enough that it shows you what it always knew. Most of the time, the thing was just waiting for someone to sit down. The essays are receipts of having sat down.
I make software for a living and bring back what the work shows me. Production discipline is the only honest curiosity I know. You don't get to argue with a thing you built and broke and built again. Builds and operations are elsewhere. The writing lives here.