This site collects writing on systems, meaning, computation, games, narrative, education, philosophy, and possible worlds. Some pieces are polished essays. Others are exploratory notes: attempts to connect ideas across fields, test frameworks, or follow a question far enough to see where it leads.

SYSTEMS | SYNTHESIS | SPECULATIONS is the shorthand:

• Systems — structures, games, societies, interfaces, education, planets
• Synthesis — connecting ideas across fields
• Speculations — exploring possibilities without claiming final authority

I also maintain a fiction-focused author site, but D.G. Drake is for the ideas that sit beside or beneath the fiction rather than inside it.