This page contains two sections:

Missives of sufficient length, effort, and hopefully interest, that simply burying them inside emails was too painful. (Plus, here, I can readily organize/layer information to make more pleasant for the recipient/reader.)

Exploring a new path

It is not rare for me to spend hours, days even, crafting an email of substance. I do not regret this time spent, but am pained that the oft-times interesting ideas and perspectives contained within such missive trails (generated from my side, the recipient's, usually both), once interchange is "complete", basically vanish. (Other than of course living within me and the recipient. But even for us, over time the memory fades and we cannot recall the ideas and feelings shared.)

Additionally, I have never really “leveraged” the Internet. Oh sure, I have had a webpage (several actually), used email, posted a few videos, etc. But in general I avoid Social Media, prior to the creation δroplets did not even have a mailing list, etc.

So, to allow the work to have broader impact and longer duration, I have decided, in select cases where it seems "worth it" and does not violate the recipient's reasonable expectation of privacy, to make such communications public.

Additional gains from this choice include:

  • Promotion of the missive's content — particularly if the person to whom I am writing is well known, but regardless.
  • The ability to have
  • The option to add dated updates and edits over time.
  • A not-insignificant number of these communications are/will-be sent to individuals who do not even know me, and thus may never even be read, or if read, never responded to. Thus another reason to make them public is to ensure their "existential" value will be greater-than-zero regardless. Also, 3rd parties might read and, if friends of the intended recipient, mention to same if they feel the communication might be of interest.
  • I can explicitly refer to such pages, should ideas contained therein be ones of relevance to a current conversation, a future post, etc.
  • Finally, if the recipient feels the content is personal and meaningful, they may wish to share with a colleague, loved one, or others (as I likely would, were I to receive such a thing). This structure allows that to be as quick and convenient as simply sharing the relevant link.

PS: I have not yet decided what to do with potentially interesting responses I may receive from recipients of these outreaches. My current plan, in cases where I have reason to believe , is to ask sender's permission prior to potentially publishing elements of their response. Additionally, since I will always link to this page from such outreach emails, if someone does read and respond, they will necessarily be alerted ahead of time to this issue, and can if they wish proactively say "Please keep my response private." or "I would love it if you shared.", etc.

Additional “personal or semi-personal” items not included here:

An aggregation of my offsite comments, both as a growing "creation" in its own right, and to allow linking to longer versions than feels appropriate to put on a third party's site.

I have a "complicated" relationship with online comments — both mine and those of others...

Perhaps you do as well? Please visit my CommentsComments micro site for a sharing of perspectives in this regard, along with proposed partial solution (implemented below — and of which you too may take part on your own site, should you find appealing).

Comments illustration (Click to visit CommentsComments.com, where you will find fun interactive version of the above, as well as further explanation of my tortured relationship to comments.)

(Note: Brief communication are not included here — rather, only those with enough substance to potentially be “worthy of committing to posterity”.)

PS

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Part I: Public Communications

Number of public communications below as of 2026-01-12 = 0 (several coming soon-ish).

Part II: Comment Repository

as of 2025-11-11 = 1.

: NotebookLM Plus Discord Server Comment.

Minimum requirements to access. And thanks to Google's "electioneering" team member on Discord NotebookLM server!

FYI: A feature of particular note (not including ability to generate podcasts, which I have not tried): Can upload dramatically more user content than typical AIs, in consequence of (at least), NotebookLM's use of .