What is this

A brain, turned inside out

The story of why any of this exists — and why you might come back more often than you'd like to admit.

Down a Rabbit Hole is one person's second brain, pried open and left running in public — tens of thousands of notes, articles, videos and half-formed suspicions, wired into a graph that mostly makes sense.

For years this was private: a place to keep everything worth remembering about the handful of subjects I can't stop thinking about. At some point it got big enough, and strange enough, that keeping it to myself started to feel selfish. Or possibly just lonely. So here it is.

A machine reads the world every night and tells me what changed. I read what it found, throw out the nonsense, and publish the rest with commentary. Nothing here arrived automatically — a human (me) approved every word. That's the whole editorial policy: the robot suggests, the human decides, and neither of us takes it too seriously.

Three rooms

Thank You for the ApocalypseThe world is on fire. At least the maps are interesting.
Irrelevant MachinesBeautiful, obsolete, and gloriously bad investments.
When the Banks SleepThe financial system, but honest about it.

What you'll find

Dispatches — short and frequent, whenever something breaks. Essays — longer, rarer, written by hand. Free Ideas — things worth building that I'll never get to; steal them. And the graph itself, if you want to get properly lost.

No ads. No newsletter you have to escape. No investment opportunity — please don't ask. Just a light room, a dark sense of humour, and more information than is strictly healthy.

Now the part where I beg

Be brutal. Genuinely. Tell me what's wrong, what's boring, what's lazy, what's flat-out stupid. Correct my facts, pick apart my logic, tell me what's missing — and if you hate the whole thing, tell me that too, in as many words as you can spare.

Silence teaches me nothing. A polite nod teaches me less. A furious, specific email is the most useful thing you can send me. I would much rather be argued with than quietly ignored. So don't be nice. Be honest. I'll answer personally.

Talk to us

Send a message

A suggestion, a correction, or just saying hello. It lands in a real inbox that a real human reads and answers.

Your data, your call. This is a public project, so a message might be featured on the wall — first name only, and only if it's good; you can opt out right on the form. And you can ask for everything tied to your email to be erased at any time. That's your right to be forgotten under GDPR, and I honour it.

Talk to us

A suggestion, a correction, or something we got wrong? Be honest — I'd rather be argued with than politely ignored. A real human reads every message.

Your data, your call. I keep what you send only to reply and — if you allow it — feature it. Want it gone? Say the word (or pick “Erase my data” above) and every trace tied to your email disappears. That's your right to be forgotten under GDPR, and I honour it.

Message sent!

A human will get back to you. Eventually, but genuinely.