No Fixed Position
I write at No Fixed Position, a Substack about academia, athletics, and the rest of it. Start with these.
Essay ◆ Jul 21, 2026
Who knows who in hockey's top league?
The essay behind the map: what 230,000 teammate ties reveal about how tightly the league is stitched together, and about the players who do the stitching.
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Navigating PhD admissions, from one student's perspective
What the PhD admissions season looked like from inside it, written for the next person staring at the same forms.
Read on Substack →Essay ◆ Feb 25, 2026
On hockey, politics, and the gold medal that broke something
Hockey and politics stopped being separable this winter. On what a gold medal can carry, and what it can break.
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