Good questions look clever in hindsight. Bad questions make them possible.
LabCulture.net is where I think out loud about chemistry, experiments, training, and the ideas underneath all of it. I put ideas into the open before they're finished so I can challenge them, see what holds up, and sharpen them as I go. Some questions will be rough, some assumptions won't hold, and some conclusions will change. That's usually where the interesting part begins.
Four rooms. One long table.
Wander through in any order. Nothing's locked, and there's no wrong door to start with.
Chemistry
Elemental impurities, ICP-MS/OES, OOS investigations, and method validation, explained the way I'd actually tell a friend about my day.
16 notes BExperiments
What I've tried on myself, what held up, what quietly didn't. Written before I know how it ends.
0 notes CFitness
Training thought through the same way as a method: what's signal, what's just noise, what actually holds up over time.
0 notes DThe Reading Room
Psychology, behavioral economics, philosophy, and books: the ideas that shape how I think before any of the above starts.
10 notesWhat's on the table right now
See everythingRepeated Games: How Reputation Becomes Your Real Strategy
Sequential Games: Win Smarter with Chess and Poker Thinking
How to Build a Method Operable Design Region (MODR): From Guesswork to Control
Bring the question. I'll bring the coffee.
Leave your email. Every so often, I'll send something worth pulling up a chair for: a stubborn method, an experiment that challenged my thinking, a piece of statistics, or a book worth arguing with. No drip campaigns. Just ideas worth a cup of coffee.
