building a product, even a simple one, is so insanely hard

Incrementally improving an explanation of a technical idea might take a single author weeks to do, but could go on to save a day for thousands, tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands of students, if it becomes the best option available.

I just think if your best ideas are locked away in some dense textbook, by its very nature it's not going to reach a lot of the audience you want it to

Speaking towards this goal, the next lesson I’ve come to learn is that imagining the New Internet is not the same as building it. In my time around the archipelago of internet reform there have been no shortage of ambitious ideas. In the process of implementing said ideas, it was revealed time and time again that ambitiousness does not equal practi... See more

Since 2016 I have been exploring this idea and have made many attempts to explain it in different essays. None of these attempts have fully captured it, but I think the idea is so important and so explains certain features of our world that I keep trying again and again. In this piece I want to briefly outline how I arrived at this idea and develop... See more

simplicity is difficult because there's no room to hide the lack of clear conviction that complexity affords

1:04:49 – if you can easily describe what you are doing it’s probably not ambitious enough