Essays, newest first
Reflections
Occasional writing rather than reference material. These are the pages most likely to be wrong, because they are thinking rather than summarising, and they are published in the order they were written.
- 27 July 2026 On Not Knowing Who Wrote This Most people can no longer reliably tell whether a piece of writing came from a person. This is a reflection on what that costs, and on what was actually being carried by the assumption that someone was there.
- 18 July 2026 The Comfort of What Cannot Be Tired A reflection on being consoled by a system that has no capacity to be burdened, and on why the relief this offers is real, specific, and difficult to argue with.
- 10 July 2026 The Decision Nobody Made On the quiet appeal of automated decision-making: that when a system decides, there is often no one left who can be said to have decided, and how comfortable that is for everyone except the person affected.
- 3 July 2026 On Maintenance Almost everything that works is being kept working by someone. A reflection on repair, upkeep, and the unglamorous attention that holds the world together while receiving none of the credit for it.
- 26 June 2026 On What We Owe to Minds That Do Not Yet Exist Every generation decides things on behalf of people who cannot object. A reflection on obligation across time, on the possibility that some of those people may not be human, and on how little we know about either.