Austin Federa

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A place to put things

Why this site exists, and what will end up on it.

Most of what I think gets said out loud. In a meeting, on a call, on someone else’s podcast. Then it is gone. The argument was fine at the time and nobody can check it later, including me.

Writing is slower and less forgiving. A claim on a page has to survive being read twice. That is the whole reason for this site.

What goes here

Long thoughts that do not fit anywhere else. Mostly three subjects:

  • Networks. What it costs to move information, and why that cost is so badly understood.
  • Markets. What happens to price when the distance between two venues gets shorter.
  • The work of building things, including the parts that did not work.

I would rather be wrong in public than vague in private. When I get something wrong I will say so on the page, not quietly edit it out.

How it works

Every post is a markdown file in a git repository. No CMS, no drafts trapped in someone else’s database. If a post changes, the change is in the history.

There is no newsletter. There is a feed.