This is everything unrelated to common sense, computers, philosophy, levity, or spirituality, explained for my simple commonplacing and your public consumption. Consult my method to see how I built it.
NOTE: As of May 4th, 2025, I am taking a severe hiatus from all writing projects. I’ve been utterly broken and humbled, and don’t consider any of these essays to be sufficiently right anymore. This may change, but consider everything here as an archive of someone’s efforts who no longer exists.
Legend
- * This thing is currently a work in process, and I’m trying to organize it.
- XX It’s a “live” page, but in no way really done.
Manmade Chaos
Individual
- Design/UX
- How to Design Something Perfectly
- Modern Health Problems
- Dumb Data: Dreams Summarized
- Dumb Data: Risk Management Checklist
Interaction
- How to Hire Professionals
- How to Homeschool
- How to Learn Another Language
- How to Publicly Speak and Teach
- The Technical Idiot
- Non-Religious Marriage Contract
Society
- How to Sort Through Information
- Modern Requirements
- How to Navigate Bureaucracy
- What Got America Here
- American/British English translation (external)
Fun
Possessions
- How to Own Automobiles
- How to Own a House
- How to Homestead
- Dumb Data: Flowers Summarized
- Dumb Data: Kitchen Utensils Summarized
- Assessing Garment Quality (external)
Nature
Engineering
- Engineering Summarized
- How to Fix Things
- The Machine Gods
- Technical Documentation Summarized
- The Ashley Book of Knots (external)
Math
- XX What is Math?
- * Arithmetic & Algebra
- XX Geometry/Trigonometry
- XX Statistics
- XX Game Theory
- XX Calculus
- * Dumb Data: Math Dictionary
Law
- How to Stay Legally Safe
- Intellectual Property Summarized
- Insurance Summarized
- Dumb Data: Legal Dictionary
- Dumb Data: Legal Doctrines & Principles
Business
A – Logistics
B – Marketing
C – Money
D – Entrepreneurship
- * What is an Entrepreneur?
- * A Business Idea
- * A Business Plan
- * Freelancing
- * Maximizing Productivity
- * Scaling & Financing
- * Exit Strategy
E – Management
- * What is a Manager?
- * Creating Projects
- * Hiring & Firing Teams
- * Project Status & Cycles
- * Communication
- * Maintaining Morale
- * Changes, Scaling & Shrinking
- XX Middle Management
- XX Not-for-Profit Management
About
Why this site?
- I obsess about the permanent and perfect. Unfortunately, life itself isn’t always so straightforward.
- Some domains don’t quite “fit” with anything else, and I don’t feel comfortable spinning up another website for half-a-dozen essays, so this is my means to capture that miscellaneous information.
What’s up with the logo?
- It’s a visual representation of Not, A, and Genius (NAG), spliced together to imply the discordance and unity that represents these various domains.
Who are you, anyway?
- I’m Dave Stucky.
- You might like other things I made.
- Follow my updates here.