If you’ve enjoyed my recent series about the open social web, great! There were four parts, which I think are collectively some of my best work:

• What the future of Bluesky might look like
• How Mastodon could be the future of online communities
• What I’d do if I was running my own platform
• How I’d approach funding it all

If you didn’t enjoy it, I’ve kind of got bad news: that’s the kind of writing I intend to do here in the future.

I lead technology teams, most recently at ProPublica, but writing fiction has always been my first love. And I think it’s a place where I can meaningfully help.

There’s a lot wrong in the world, and there are a lot of problems to highlight and bring attention to. There are a lot of people (including my employer) who are doing this very well.

But one of the other things we can be doing is imagining better futures and describing them in detail. This helps us have conversations about what a better world might be in practice; how we can build more equitable, pro-social and progressive structures, how they might work, and what the impact might be. The details might not be right; people might disagree with what I’ve written; but describing these possibilities in detail helps us have more substantive conversations that will hopefully lead us somewhere concrete.

I believe that design fiction, science fiction, speculative fiction, and — maybe controversially — business fiction all matter and are a huge part of building the future.

So you can expect to see more of that here.

What you can expect to see less of: if you’re subscribing by email, I’m discontinuing the notable links email that I’ve been sending every Monday. I reserve the right to save an interesting link here and there on my website and on my social media accounts, but they won’t be the focus of my writing.

If you’re interested in links, I continue to make my RSS subscriptions available as a feed. These are the sources I read every day. I haven’t necessarily read a particular article, but it’s the exact same feed I use to start every day, updated every five minutes.

If you have any feedback for me, I’d love to hear it. Reach out via email, Mastodon, or Bluesky. It’s always a gift to hear from you. Regardless, thank you for following along — there’s more to come.