State of the blog

About 3 years since I started writing weekly.

Another year: 2025

For the last ten years on Christmas Day I've written a retrospective on the past year. This year's is a public post.

The Curious About Everything Newsletter #60

The many interesting things I read in February 2026

The Curious About Everything Newsletter #65

The many interesting things I read in July 2026

On Writing #3

Periodically I like to gather various observations about writing, and share my perspective.

15 rules for blogging, and my current streak

Posted on Thursday 10 Sep 2020. 493 words, 2 links. By Matt Webb.

Gap Week: March 20, 2026

Hey folks! I was traveling this week to give an invited talk at Western Michigan University, so I don’t have a blog post ready for you. That’ll also probably be the case for next week (…

Gap Week: March 20, 2026

Hey folks! I was traveling this week to give an invited talk at Western Michigan University, so I don’t have a blog post ready for you. That’ll also probably be the case for next week (…

The Curious About Everything Newsletter #63

The many interesting things I read in May 2026

The Curious About Everything Newsletter #66

The many interesting things I read in August 2026

Freshet News (@freshetnews.bsky.social)

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My year in data

What do I actually do with my time? How productive am I? I logged everything I did in 2020 and got some pretty cool data out of this.

2025: The year in LLMs

This is the third in my annual series reviewing everything that happened in the LLM space over the past 12 months. For previous years see Stuff we figured out about …