Why start a blog in 2025?

November 07, 2025

This seems like a fair place to start. Now more than ever it feels like there's a strong movement towards starting and owning your own website. We have seen where big tech social media leads and it's a dead end or worse (X).

Cory Doctorow was on a recent Decoder episode explaining how big tech companies have enshittified the internet. He does a wonderful job of explaining exactly how they gave users everything they wanted, locked them in, and then did everything they said they wouldn't do in order to sell your data and eyeballs to advertisers.

This is to say that I hope we have all collectively learnt from the last 20 years and I want to be part of a better internet. Hopefully I might also contribute something along the way.