About

Errata is a personal blog about the things I find interesting — which, more often than not, turn out to be the things I previously had wrong.

The name comes from the publishing tradition of the errata sheet: a list of corrections inserted into a book after printing. It felt like an honest name for a blog. Most of what I write here is an attempt to correct my own misunderstandings — about historical events I thought I knew, philosophical ideas I'd oversimplified, and economic concepts I'd taken for granted.

The subjects tend to orbit around three areas: history, where I'm drawn to the stories that complicate the ones we tell ourselves; philosophy, where I'm interested in what happens at the edges of what we can say and know; and economics, where I keep finding that the simple models are wrong and the complex ones are worse.

Occasionally I write about other things too — the psychology of arguments, the aesthetics of old books, the way certain ideas seem to appear independently in different civilizations at the same time. I follow the tangents wherever they go.

This is not an academic project. I'm not a historian, philosopher, or economist. I'm someone who reads a lot and thinks out loud. If you find errors — and you will — I'd genuinely appreciate hearing about them. The whole point of errata is that they get corrected.

You can reach me at hello@errata.ink.