Moderate & Modulate

These days, I make part of my living doing news analysis.

In practice, this means spending a lot of time reading: the news, but also all the stuff that informs and becomes the news, including history books, research papers, tweets from informed people, and ultra-niche newsletters.

I enjoy my work: the process of cobbling together context from dispersed bits of information is intellectually rewarding. But it requires that I stay plugged in to what’s happening across many spheres of interest, and wh...