Writes about the structures people live inside without noticing — institutions, informal economies, the texture of everyday life as evidence of something larger. Narrative nonfiction with a sociological eye. Interested in the gap between how formal systems describe the world and how people actually move through it.
Personal site ↗The form was designed for a particular kind of person: someone with a fixed address, a legible income, and a life that runs on annual cycles. The longer you study bureaucratic paperwork, the clearer it becomes that most people are not that person.
Every informal economy is a precise measurement of institutional failure — not because the state has abandoned people, but because formal systems are built for idealized citizens who don't quite exist. The gap between the person on the form and the person filling it out is where informal life begins.