About Fogwalker

Most people who are confident about how the world works have never examined where that confidence began. You encounter them everywhere now. Opinion columns, podcast monologues, Reddit threads that read like closing arguments for cases no one filed.

Thirty minutes of reading. Forty years of certainty.

The internet made this worse, but it did not invent it. What algorithms did was industrialize it. Rage bait turned ordinary people into reactionaries. Engagement metrics rewarded the loudest, least examined take in any room. And gradually, a vast number of otherwise intelligent people stopped forming positions and started performing them.

The confidence is total. The understanding rarely goes past the surface.

I grew up between Karachi, Dubai, and California. Three places that tell themselves very different stories about how the world works. None of them wrong in every way. None of them honest about what they leave out. That experience does something to you. It makes it harder to accept any single framework as the whole picture, and harder still to take seriously the people who insist theirs is.

Fogwalker is where I write about that. Essays on culture and media. Book reviews, fiction and nonfiction. And a podcast called Now You See It (coming soon).

The writing here is slow. It looks at things long enough for something to come into focus that was not visible at first glance. If that sounds like it might be worth your time, subscribe and find out.