I started Open the Echo Chamber in July of 2010, just before I headed off to USAID on an AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowship. For a few years, this was a very active site where I offered commentary on all things development, environment, and academia. But, as Bill Easterly once said, blogs are hungry mouths, and around 2013-14 I just couldn’t keep it up anymore. There have been some posts since then, but they are few and far between.

Then, while updating my homepage in October 2020, I apparently deleted the site. I have no idea how, but it was gone. I had a backup from 2011, and an index file that I was able to reinstall. Using the Internet Wayback Machine, I then grabbed all the posts that were not in the backup and had any sort of intellectual content (some posts were very time-specific and without enduring value) and copy/pasted them here. Some of the links in them are likely broken or head to the Wayback Machine. I might clean them up. I probably won’t. 

This is now a somewhat messy archive of Open The Echo Chamber. I doubt I will post new material here again. Some folks find the old posts interesting and worthwhile, given people keep visiting the site, so I suppose an archive is worthwhile. There are around 300 posts here – it was a lot of work, even if it didn’t feel like that much work. I suppose I want to preserve that as well. I’m not done with the work, nor am I done writing – I just do it in other places and in other ways. Some of it is even as much fun as this was.