Jackson Hurley

Essays, notes, and projects

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Feb 8, 2026
On Building a Personal Website
Reflections on building a gwern-inspired personal website with Next.js, Sanity, and Vercel. A meditation on what it means to have a home on the internet.
Feb 8, 2026
Personal Website
This website — a gwern-inspired personal wiki built with Next.js, Sanity, and Vercel.
Feb 7, 2026
Useful Shell Aliases
A growing collection of shell aliases and functions I find useful in daily development.
May 9, 2024
Incentivism
Somehow no one has coined this word before. A proposal for a name—and a political philosophy: that the purpose of social norms and government is to align the incentives of free individuals toward pro-social ends.
May 15, 2023
Senior Thesis: Norms on Complex Matrices Induced by Random Vectors
My senior math thesis at Pomona — 60 pages of original proofs on norms on complex matrices induced by random vectors — and the two Canadian Mathematical Bulletin papers it produced.