Leaving knowledge others can use

Leaving knowledge others can use

In The Crown of Vesper, a citadel on the imagined planet Zer stands at the boundary of light and darkness. That setting gives me a way to write about hope without pretending the darkness isn't there.

The article asks what it would mean to leave better tools and knowledge for people 100,000 years from now, even if they never know my name. It’s a useful perspective for my work on durable, reviewable professional knowledge: what matters is whether someone else can use what we leave behind.