About Thoughts, Tangents & Trifles

Tl;dr - I’ve been peer-pressured into launching a personal newsletter for friends.

Welcome to Thoughts, Tangents & Trifles - a newsletter where serious contemplation meets playful wandering, and intellectual rigour gets comfortably tangled with delightful nonsense.

Here, you'll find my brain doing what it does best: starting with a perfectly reasonable thought ("Why do bananas grow in tropical regions?"), careening wildly into unexpected territory ("Why is banana named so, what’s the value of an extra na?"), and somehow ending up in a place that's either brilliantly insightful or magnificently absurd ("What can the Banana Republic teach us about governance?").

This is meant to be a way to put thoughts that have been nagging where you, my friends, will rarely reach for, or surprise me with your readership - your inboxes.

Each edition is a carefully curated collection of:

• Thoughts: Deep dives into ideas that won't leave me alone

• Tangents: The fascinating side quests my mind embarks upon while thinking about literally anything else

• Tomfoolery: Because sometimes the most profound insights wear a jester's hat

• Tidings: From whatever adventures I’ll be on and open my brain’s inner workings to you

Whether these words were frantically typed at 3 AM or methodically pondered for weeks, they all share one common thread: they refused to stay quietly in my head. Now they're here, unleashed upon your inbox, hoping to make you think, smile, or at the very least, tilt your head and say "Huh."

Subscribe if you enjoy:

• Intellectual rabbit holes with surprisingly cozy furnishings

• Serious ideas wearing casual clothes

• The kind of insights that arrive while you're looking for something else entirely

• Questions that probably didn't need asking (but here we are)

New dispatches whenever I feel like it for minds that enjoy both the scenic route and the occasional delightful detour.