My name is Nathan. I’ve been a science teacher, a journalist, lately an analyst and editor. How to Know is about “truths,” intentionally left lowercase. Not the cosmic or all-encompassing, but things at any scale that accurately reflect the world as it is. Knowledge and the processes for acquiring it. Techniques for decision and prediction, and also realism about the limits of what can be known and the clarity with which things can be considered.

If you produce enough of any work, your idiosyncrasies inevitably poke out. I’m sure mine do, or will. For transparency, a non-exaustive list of my preoccupations: budget travel, computation, desert blues, fantasy fiction, religious experience, statistics, and Turkish cooking.