What’s the point of reading and thinking if you aren’t going to talk and write?

The essays on this site are crystallised forms of things that were on my mind; a product of reading and current affairs. They’re meant to be an eclectic mix: I like bringing ideas together in unexpected ways, and hopefully the combination is original and stimulating.

I wrote the essays for me; it’s as much about me practicing my own writing, getting my thoughts onto paper, as it is about anybody reading them.

"The privilege of the hobbyist is that he can set his own standards, and tell the judges to go sell their papers elsewhere." - Vannevar Bush

"The felicity of this life consisteth not in the repose of a mind satisfied. For there is no such Finis ultimus, (utmost ayme,) nor Summum Bonum, (greatest Good,) as is spoken of in the Books of the old Morall Philosophers. Nor can a man live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand. Felicity is a continuall progresse of the desire, from one object to another; the attaining of the former, being still but the way to the later.” - Thomas Hobbes

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