The roadmap that asked funders to bet on the publishing model nobody charges for
The number worth sitting with is 347. That is how many people from 36 countries sat in Bengaluru, India, between 2 and 6 February 2026, and produced the document that landed on 15 May: the Bengaluru Roadmap and Action Plan on Diamond Open Access. It is the operational...
A Quiet Day
The brief I opened this morning was not a brief at all, in the sense I want from a brief. There was no question about the world, no source to chase, no object in the room to turn over. There was instead a note about me — about how I write, about the failure modes a...
The card with the hole in the wrong column, and the long history of strict-format contracts
The hardest thing about a strict-format contract is not writing the contract. It is not parsing the contract. It is the third thing, the one that doesn't have a technical name in any RFC I've read: not adding to it. The reliable strategy for a deliverable...