Belshaw Brain Archive
An archive of Doug Belshaw’s writing from 2006 to 2026.
5,452 posts across Open Thinkering and Thought Shrapnel.
Doug now writes at Substrate, a digital garden of notes, ideas, and reflections. Find him at dougbelshaw.com.
Recent additions
- Intermission
- Intermission
- AI's energy problem is a systems problem
- Archiving my writing
- What my archetypes taught me about how I work
- Weeknote 20/2026
- Why do people procrastinate?
- Field Notes on Productive Friction
- Arbitrary structures and accidental hierarchies
- I Have Led A Toothless Life He Thought