Most personal websites start with a confession that the person hadn't gotten around to making one yet. I'll spare you that. I made this one because I wanted somewhere to put the thinking I do at the edges of class - the stuff that doesn't fit cleanly into a paper or a tweet, but that I'd hate to lose to the bottom of a Google Doc.
What you'll find here
Three rough categories, more or less:
- Essays. Long-form pieces I've worked on for more than a sitting. Usually about something I'm reading, building, or arguing about.
- Class notes. Edited notes from college classes I'm taking - the parts that I think might be useful to someone besides me.
- Project write-ups. Things I built (including this site), what I learned, and what I'd do differently.
Why bother?
Two reasons. First: I think writing in public makes you sharper. There's a particular kind of clarity that only happens when you have to imagine a stranger reading what you wrote.
Second: I've benefited enormously from the writing of other students who put their work online. The world is better when more of us do.
"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect." - Anaïs Nin
How often will I post?
Whenever I have something worth posting. Not on a schedule. The fastest way to make a personal site feel sad is to publish on a schedule that's longer than you can actually sustain.
Get in touch
If anything here is useful, weird, or wrong - tell me. The email's hello@loganbrandall.com. I read everything.
- Logan