One thing I try pretty hard to do is to keep my posts “highly surprising” to long-time subscribers, or someone binge-reading my posts.

For example, someone who knows my position on bee welfare should not be able to predict my thoughts on the premium of life. Someone who knows my thoughts on premium of life shouldn’t be able to predict Open Asteroid Impact. Open Asteroid Impact doesn’t predict my thoughts on the anthropic answer to Wigner’s puzzle. Someone who knows my thoughts on anthropics shouldn’t be able to predict that I’ll write a baby’s guide on it (this might be the weakest step). And someone who knows I wrote a baby’s guide to anthropics shouldn’t be able to predict my thoughts on Ted Chiang.

I think this will eventually break. I could only be ever so creative and would eventually have to repeat myself. Maybe by post 15, maybe by post 30.

But I’m hoping to seed the start of my blog with genuinely varied topics so readers know to expect (and demand) a diversity and quality of ideas from me. This also prevents me from too quickly boxing myself in a specific niche and become a pop econ substack, or a anthropic explanations substack, or a book reviews substack.