hello atmosphere

I'm mourning peak Twitter era, where the network was a useful way to keep in pulse with ideas, loose thoughts about where I wanted to go, and keep people updated about what I was thinking about.

I've been working towards a critical pragmatics over the past several years, and I've landed on several constructive principles, rather than polemics, forged by fire, that work for my idiosyncratic toolset:

There has been much progress lately in the past several years, despite institutional and environmental headwinds that threaten to snuff out the light of a candle. I think these headwinds clarify what matters most vs. what can be easily co-opted for regulatory capture and dumped when it starts being inconvenient. I believe that we will win.

About me - by listing some formative encounters: