Hello! This is my summary of 2025 and the “start here” post for new readers. Links and stats follow…
According to Fathom, my most trafficked posts of 2025 were (in descending order):
Here are all the most popular posts: 20 most popular in 2025.
Even more AI than last year.
My personal faves aren’t always the ones that get the most traffic…
- Homing pigeons fly by the scent of forests and the song of mountains
- Keeping the seat warm between peaks of cephalopod civilisation
- Diane, I wrote a lecture by talking about it
Also MAGA fashion, pneumatic elevators, and what the play Oedipus is really about.
Check out my speculative faves from 2025.
Also check out the decade-long Filtered for… series.
Links and rambling interconnectedness. I like these ones.
Posts in 2025 include:
And more.
Here’s the whole Filtered for… series. 2025 posts at the top.
Looking back over 2025, I’ve been unusually introspective.
Possibly because I hit my 25th anniversary with this blog? (Here are my reflections and a follow-up interview.)
Or something else, who knows.
Anyway here’s a collection from this year:
In other writing, I…
A talk I did in June for a WIRED event has just broken a million views. Watch AI Agents: Your Next Employee, or Your Next Boss (YouTube).
PREVIOUSLY!
Other ways to read:
Or just visit the website: interconnected.org/home.
If you read a post you like, please do pass it along and share on the discords or socials or whatever new thing.
I like email replies. I like it when people send me links they think I’ll enjoy (they’re almost always correct). I especially like hearing about how a post has had a flapping-of-the-butterfly’s-wings effect somehow, whether personally or at work.
I like talking to people most of all. I started opening my calendar for Unoffice Hours over 5 years ago. 400+ calls later and it’s still the highlight of my week. Learn more and book a time here.
You should totally start a blog yourself.
Here are my 15 personal rules for blogging.
If you’re interested in my tech stack, here’s the colophon.
But really, use whatever tech makes it easy for you to write. Just make sure your blogging or newsletter platform lets you publish your posts with an RSS feed. That’s a great marker that you own your own words.
Stats for the stats fans.
- 2025: 61 posts (58,160 words, 549 links)
- 2024: 60 posts (62,670 words, 586 links)
- 2023: 68 posts (69,067 words, 588 links)
- 2022: 96 posts (104,645 words, 712 links)
- 2021: 128 posts (103,682 words, 765 links)
My current streak: I’ve been posting weekly or more for 301 weeks.
Looking back over 2025, I’m increasingly straddling this awkward divide:
Where “everything else” is everything from policy suggestions on the need for a strategic fact reserve to going to algoraves to my other speculative faves this year.
Whereas the more bloggy spitball thoughts (which I love, and this is mainly what I wrote in 2020/21/22) are now relegated to occasional compilation posts a.k.a scraps
– it would be great to give these more space but that doesn’t seem to be where my time is going.
I don’t know what to do about this.
I don’t know if I need to do anything about this.
One of the big reasons that I write here is that it’s my public notebook and so it’s this core sample that cuts across everything that I’m thinking about, which is indeed a weird admixture or melange, and that’s precisely the value for me because that’s how new ideas come, even if that makes this blog hard to navigate and many visitors will just bounce off.
All of which makes me appreciate YOU all the more, dear reader, for sticking with.
Happy 2026.
Hello! This is my summary of 2025 and the “start here” post for new readers. Links and stats follow…
According to Fathom, my most trafficked posts of 2025 were (in descending order):
Here are all the most popular posts: 20 most popular in 2025.
Even more AI than last year.
My personal faves aren’t always the ones that get the most traffic…
Also MAGA fashion, pneumatic elevators, and what the play Oedipus is really about.
Check out my speculative faves from 2025.
Also check out the decade-long Filtered for… series.
Links and rambling interconnectedness. I like these ones.
Posts in 2025 include:
And more.
Here’s the whole Filtered for… series. 2025 posts at the top.
Looking back over 2025, I’ve been unusually introspective.
Possibly because I hit my 25th anniversary with this blog? (Here are my reflections and a follow-up interview.)
Or something else, who knows.
Anyway here’s a collection from this year:
In other writing, I…
A talk I did in June for a WIRED event has just broken a million views. Watch AI Agents: Your Next Employee, or Your Next Boss (YouTube).
PREVIOUSLY!
Other ways to read:
Or just visit the website: interconnected.org/home.
If you read a post you like, please do pass it along and share on the discords or socials or whatever new thing.
I like email replies. I like it when people send me links they think I’ll enjoy (they’re almost always correct). I especially like hearing about how a post has had a flapping-of-the-butterfly’s-wings effect somehow, whether personally or at work.
I like talking to people most of all. I started opening my calendar for Unoffice Hours over 5 years ago. 400+ calls later and it’s still the highlight of my week. Learn more and book a time here.
You should totally start a blog yourself.
Here are my 15 personal rules for blogging.
If you’re interested in my tech stack, here’s the colophon.
But really, use whatever tech makes it easy for you to write. Just make sure your blogging or newsletter platform lets you publish your posts with an RSS feed. That’s a great marker that you own your own words.
Stats for the stats fans.
My current streak: I’ve been posting weekly or more for 301 weeks.
Looking back over 2025, I’m increasingly straddling this awkward divide:
Where “everything else” is everything from policy suggestions on the need for a strategic fact reserve to going to algoraves to my other speculative faves this year.
Whereas the more bloggy spitball thoughts (which I love, and this is mainly what I wrote in 2020/21/22) are now relegated to occasional compilation posts a.k.a – it would be great to give these more space but that doesn’t seem to be where my time is going.
I don’t know what to do about this.
I don’t know if I need to do anything about this.
One of the big reasons that I write here is that it’s my public notebook and so it’s this core sample that cuts across everything that I’m thinking about, which is indeed a weird admixture or melange, and that’s precisely the value for me because that’s how new ideas come, even if that makes this blog hard to navigate and many visitors will just bounce off.
All of which makes me appreciate YOU all the more, dear reader, for sticking with.
Happy 2026.