I am, at heart, an introvert. This might surprise people who know me professionally: I show up, I engage, I’m always genuinely glad to be in the room. But the processing happens elsewhere. I think by writing; I always have.
I have kept notebooks my whole life. Most of my thinking stays there, private and unfinished. What (I’m hoping) ends up here is the subset of ideas that feel ready for friction and refinement.
Once the web existed, it gave me a place to think publicly. What started as playing with HTML in 2000 became something I didn’t have a name for back then: working in the open. Putting ideas somewhere others could find them, push back on them, and build on them.
I’ve come to believe that knowledge is inherently social. Ideas don’t sharpen in isolation; they sharpen against other minds. Thinking out loud in public is not just transparency for its own sake, it’s how I actually think. The writing is the thinking.
There’s also a values dimension. I lead an institution built on the premise that access to knowledge matters, that who gets to participate in knowledge-making matters. Working openly is how I try to model that, not just advocate for it.
So this is me, thinking out loud. If you’re working on similar questions I hope we can think together.