I must confess a certain ambivalence about the internet. The promise of limitless communication and a ready repository of nearly all human knowledge is the stuff of utopia. At the same time, the economic incentives of the internet have begun to overwhelm it. What I consider best about it sags visibly under the weight of LLM content and algorithmic engagement systems. This website is my own attempt at compromise - to have a little piece of the internet and a little piece of myself on it, without having too much. This is an old-new website, typed out between the HTML brackets of my youth in a notepad document, not any slick editor. It feels strangely my own (surely not because I made it -- most things we make on the internet do not belong to us these days).
In another life, I was an academic studying the history of law and criminology. I enjoyed teaching a great deal, primarily because it consists of telling stories to people, except you can test them on their close reading (how much would authors pay to have this right against their readers?). I've become more interested with writing stories. I also greatly enjoy copyediting. My wife has introduced me to the joys of small animals, a journey which is partially documented on this website.
If you'd like to talk you can reach out to me at see.s.sayers@gmail.com.