Texting
Essays on the rhythms of group chats, logistical threads, and the harder-to-write messages that actually matter.
Every Plan You Made Over Text That Never Actually Happened
"We should grab dinner sometime." "Let's do that hike before it gets cold." The text-thread graveyard is real — and the fix is boring: plans need to live somewhere other than the thread they were made in.
What to Text a Friend Going Through It
The blank text field is the actual problem — not the feelings. Two sentences that land better than any template.
How to Apologize to a Friend You Ghosted
The long apology backfires. Acting normal doesn't work. Three sentences that reopen a dormant thread without making the other person absorb your guilt.
How to Actually Support a Friend Going Through a Hard Time
The hardest part of supporting someone isn't caring. It's remembering what they told you three weeks ago when life got loud.
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I Let AI Analyze 90 Days of My Texts. Here's What I Learned.
What happens when you let an AI read 3 months of your conversations? Turns out, the data tells a story you already knew but were ignoring.
What Your Texts Actually Reveal About Your Friendships
I texted one friend every day and thought we were close. The data told a different story. Your messages contain relationship patterns your brain is too busy to see.
How to Be a Better Friend (According to Data, Not Listicles)
I analyzed 3 months of my texts and discovered I was mediocre at friendship — consistently, across the board. Here's what actually moves the needle.
Your iMessage History Is a Relationship Diary You Never Wrote
Your iMessage history contains patterns about your relationships that you've never seen. Here's what happens when AI reads the metadata of your conversations — not the words, but the rhythms.
Your Phone Is Making You a Worse Friend. But It Doesn't Have To.
Everyone tells you to put your phone down. Nobody tells you what to do with it when you pick it back up. What if digital wellness isn't about less screen time — it's about better screen time?
I Don't Want to Text More. I Want to Text Better.
70% of my conversations were purely logistical. The problem isn't that I'm not texting enough — it's that when I do, I'm not saying anything real.
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