About Fogwalker

A Fogwalker is someone who knows they are living inside systems they did not design, do not fully understand, and cannot step outside of. Instead of pretending otherwise, they pay attention. They look for orientation rather than certainty.

They notice how incentives bend behavior, how narratives flatten nuance, how belonging is often bought at the cost of intellectual honesty.

And the big one. How the medium reshapes the message. How people outsource their thinking. How most arguments become performances long before they become thought.

I was born in Karachi, bred in Dubai, and now call California home.

That background didn’t make me special. It made me suspicious of simple stories, inherited certainty, and the idea that any one place, culture, or system has it all figured out.

I’m trying to live the Fogwalker way.

This is my attempt to document what it means to be a third-culture kid living in a timeline designed by algorithms optimized for attention.

My beliefs are not complicated.

I believe the world is more complex than the stories we are given about it.
I believe clarity is rare because it is uncomfortable.
I believe expertise matters, but authority often lies.
I believe the instinct to belong quietly distorts how people think.
I believe paying attention is the beginning of responsibility.

I write because I want to understand what is actually happening beneath the surface of the things we read, watch, argue about, and live inside.

Books.
Films.
Television.
Culture.
Institutions.
Everyday behavior.

I am not trying to perform intelligence, persuade, or resolve the tension that exists ad infinitum. I want to get closer to seeing more clearly, so it becomes impossible to go back to sleep.