Beginning again, again

It’s been over a decade since I’ve written anything much longer than a tweet.footnote ¹ This is entirely my own doing; something always felt more important, or I convinced myself that writing my thinking down was not worth the trouble. There are so many lost thoughts, and I’d like to apologize to them, wherever they’ve gone.

Times — and my own determination to write things down — have changed. The push to rely on generating everything through LLMs has reminded me that the act of writing is itself an important mode of thinking,footnote ² and there’s no better way to learn something than to attempt to write about it. This thing should be about the journey and the destination.

To kick things off, I ported a bunch of things over from the family website, and I might consult the wayback machine for things I’ve lost. I’ve also included a few things I’ve thought about elsewhere, roughly in time with when I originally wrote them.footnote ³ The site itself is (and probably always will be) a work in progress. I know there are rough edges, but it’s better to start and refine than to wait any longer.

I can’t promise that anything on this little site will be any good, but then again, I’m doing this thing for me. If you enjoy any of it, too? All the better.