.field_notes
Observations, fragments, tech-adjacent writing.
This is the in-between: too theoretical for product, too specific for Substack, too unruly for .models.
You’ll find:
- essays about infrastructure, design, friction, maintenance
- documentation of what breaks and what resists being systematized
- analysis of tools I use and distrust
- notes on digital environments and the people who build inside them
- writing about writing—especially as it intersects with software, systems, and survival
Some of these are polished. Some are logged mid-spiral.
All of them are field data: real-time documentation of how I’m thinking through work, tools, structure, and decay.
Read some existing works on the bower:
Newsletter - the bower
Digital, cognitive, and social architectures for systems that adapt like forests, not factories.
Read some others on my substack:
The Bower | Ella Stening | Substack
A constellation of ideas, anchored by fiction & thoughts. My writing requires stamina and the ability to drift. :). Click to read The Bower, by Ella Stening, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
Ella Stening
These works are not for virality, they're in hope of finding those who resonate.
They're written to be understood or rewritten with more input, which could very well be you.
So, get in touch if you see something that hits you right in the "woah, I wanna do that too." and I'll respond.
Looking forward to hearing from you.