Essays & Long-Form

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Copywriting

You really think you deserve my attention?

Why most copywriting fails in the attention economy.

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Writing & AI

Will AI Ever Replace Writers?

Dying metaphors, dopamine, and the taste of pears.

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Yves Klein, 1961

Art & History

The Blue Epoch

Yves Klein, International Klein Blue, and the five-hundred-year obsession with ultramarine.

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Beauty Science

How do retinoids actually work?

An SEO long-form piece. The science behind the most studied ingredient in skincare — from cell turnover to collagen and the famous "purge".

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Science & Philosophy

God Does Not Play Dice

Einstein, determinism, and Bell's theorem — on what it means to refuse a universe built on chance.

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Philosophy

The Paradox of Self

A (sort of) organised and well-researched stream of consciousness — on the calculating self, ego, and what lies beneath.

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Pen — the Substack publication

Substack — Pen

More writing

Everything else on Substack — essays in progress, shorter notes, and things still being figured out.

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Writers' group

A hand holding a quill First Few Books The writers' group I co-host in Primrose Hill — its members, their books and their writing. firstfewbooks.com →