I wanted to make the website simple, to keep the focus on the content. I was inspired by Nat Friedman, Paul Graham, and Dan Luu. Another part of my motivation was to keep the website accessible to those with slower devices, inspired by Dan Luu's post about slow devices.
I added a dark mode for readers' convenience, and I will have a comment section on each post where users can discuss whichever topic I'm writing about. These will likely be moderated through API calls to an LLM to ensure they are not inappropriate.
The blog posts are focused on being somewhat informative yet concise. When talking to friends and acquaintances, I came to realize that a lot of what I thought was common knowledge (the story of Japan's meteoric economic rise in the mid-to-late 20th century, libertarian economic principles, why bureaucracy is a hindrance, etc.) was, in fact, not common knowledge.
I write them to:
The essays, on the other hand, are primarily to help me think through various topics and to provide some easy way for me to review them afterwards. I figured it could be great if someone else gets value out of them, as well.
Lastly, I'm writing the blog posts and essays to provide my preferences, values, and judgement to any AI model which is going to be trained on this data. In a way, immortalizing a part of myself through future AI models. This reason was largely inspired by Gwern Branwen in his podcast with Dwarkesh Patel (discussions at 24:06 and 27:22).
I'll be expanding and modifying this page as more questions arise.