Private thinking has a fatal flaw: it is too easy to maintain. Unexamined positions survive indefinitely in private. They never meet someone who disagrees, never have to become precise enough to be criticised, never encounter evidence that contradicts them. Private thinking is what you do in a warm bath; public writing is what happens when you get out.

I’ve been writing privately — notes, documents, half-finished analyses — for years. Most of it is not ready to publish. Some of it never will be. But the best of it has become better through the discipline of trying to make it publishable: finding the argument underneath the sprawl, cutting the hedge-words, saying the thing directly.

This site is an attempt to make that discipline regular.

What I intend to write about: AI policy, technology governance, digital society, ideas I’m working through. The Essays will be the more considered long-form pieces. Research is notes and reading breakdowns — rougher, less polished, but potentially useful. Projects is structured work.

I’ll probably miss weeks and have bursts. That’s fine. The goal is an accumulation of thinking over time, not a content schedule.

If you’re reading this: hello. If something here is wrong, I’d like to know.