A reset, not a pivot

An apology, plus: does effective altruism have a future now that its poster boy is behind bars?

Hi everyone,

Sorry that this is the first Techtris you’ve seen in quite a few weeks. Our schedule got horribly thrown off by the confluence of two events – the very frenetic launch of my book, “The Other Pandemic: How QAnon Contaminated The World” and the unexpected and sudden death of one of my closest friends.

With those two pressures, something had to give, and I’m afraid it was this newsletter. I want to apologise to everyone for not delivering, and especially to those of you kind enough to pay to support the newsletter. 

Please do drop me an email (jrball1@gmail.com) if that’s you, and I’ll add a three month complimentary subscription to anyone who has been paying to make up for the gap in service.

I intend to return to the usual four-newsletters-a-month schedule from the middle of September, in part to build up a library of content and segments to make sure we don’t have further gaps in the service – but there will be some posts between now and then.

The first is a reported essay on …