May 2026

My substack tagline is 'From the fault lines between what we value and the worlds we build'. So I need/want it to speak to that.

One about teaching my class at CCA One about types of fun

nothing concrete yet. might dust off one of my old half-started & abandoned drafts or start something new from scratch :)

I love summing up my experiences with a colleciton of vignettes that paint a picture you can feel. That's what I'm doing with my piece about Scotland.

For decades, we’ve worshipped at the altar of the objective: science, reason, facts, and truth. The outputs of that focus, including technology, underpinned our relentless march for progress. Until they didn't. The sun is setting on The Objective Era. We are entering The Subjective Era. Arguing that declining trust in traditional democratic institutions (government, media, academia) is combined with a shift to distributed and relational authority, accelerated by AI. Leaders in business, government, media and academia need to catch up before they lost to the sophisticated machinery of the populist right. The reign of the technocrat is over.

The purpose is to get better at thesis development when working on an Essay with multiple references, and removing unrelated material. My hypothesis is I could write with a clearer head and increase my publishing volume and quality if I build a habit around my writing schedule. Right now I have a writing framework that is repeatable but I apply it haphazardly. My intention for next month is to hone in on how to add more personal experiences to my essays.