pun·dit
noun \ˈpən-dət\
: a person who knows a lot about particular subjects and who expresses ideas and opinions about that subject publicly
I started PunditGuy in 2004. I had opinions, and the internet was new enough that almost nobody was writing about them in public yet. I wrote about politics, media, technology, and the occasional moral question that wouldn’t let me sleep. I wrote every day for a while. Then a few times a week. Then only when something got under my skin.
Then I stopped. In 2014, I let the site go quiet. The blogosphere was crowded, the news cycle was faster, and I couldn’t keep the pace. For a while, that was fine. The posts were still there. The archive was still there.
Then I came back. Not because I missed the attention. I came back because I missed the writing. The act of taking a messy thought and forcing it into a paragraph until it made sense. The blog was never really about the readers, though I’m grateful for the ones who stuck around. It was about the thinking.
So here I am again. The plan is simple: I’ll write about politics and current events because they’re hard to ignore and easy to get wrong. I’ll write about technology and AI because they’re changing the way information gets made, packaged, and sold. I’ll write about faith because I’m a person of faith and I’m trying to figure out what that looks like in a world that runs on algorithms.
I have a point of view, and I’m willing to change it when the evidence does. I’ll try to be clear about what I know, what I’m guessing, and what I’m just angry about. Those are different things, and they deserve different treatment.
If you read this and think I’m wrong, good. That means you’re thinking. If you read this and think I’m right, also good. That means we’re thinking the same thing, which is rarer than it should be.
Either way, thanks for being here.