Hello and welcome
Mid-thought, midjourney
Welcome.
There's a saying that I've read a few times to the effect of: if you want to write well, you must be willing to write badly. Here goes.
This site owes its existence to three facts:
I want to write more as a way to explore thoughts, and I thought having a small internet property to populate with words would motivate me. (2023 update: that hypothesis was mostly false)
I'm not into Twitter, a place some people go to share ideas.
I shrewdly purchased ethanalter.com in 2010 before any of the other Ethan Alters out there could stake their claim. If you're an Ethan Alter, sorry.
After 10+ years of defensively paying GoDaddy domain fees, I've decided to use this plot of Internet to craft my masterpiece (...it's a work in progress).
Self description has always been agony for me (to write and to read), so for our collective sake, I'll be brief:
I've been lucky. I think a lot about intuition and attention. I think that writing is a kind of thinking, and there are ideas I'd like to explore that may be best unearthed by writing, even if it's not great. I have a not-so-unique desire to be useful.
If it would be useful to you to know more, I invite you to check the the home page of this site and/or my LinkedIn page.