Back to writing

I’m going to make a commitment to writing often here, perhaps as often as once a day.

There are a few contributing factors here.

First, I’m out of government and can speak more freely. Though at no time did anyone ever tell me to watch what I said, my default was to not opine on anything online.

Second, I was deeply impacted by the passing of two people I knew well - Om Malik and S. Somasegar. One of the many things that struck me about both was how much they enjoyed sharing what they loved with the world. In Om’s case, his body of writing online is a gift and it reminded me of something about the early days of blogging we all seem to have lost. I’ve always admired people like Tyler Cowen for their prolific online output.

Third, in an increasing world of online AI generated tokens and algorithms, it feels good to have a little corner of the internet with each character typed in by hand. I’ll be definitely using some Claude/Codex help to dust off the scaffolding here. I find what is most precious is to eliminate the friction necessary to write.

Currently the best way to keep up is by coming back to this site every once in a while. I will have to wire this up to some email subscription service over time.