Writing
Analytical essays, long-form research, and ideas in progress from the Sholto Works studio
6 essays
On Writing With Machines
What happens to authorship when the tools begin to think? A first-principles look at AI-assisted writing, intellectual ownership, and the craft that survives automation.
What Research Actually Is
Research is not the accumulation of sources. It is the process of finding out what you think. A note on method, and why most commissioned research produces the wrong thing.
The Case for Long-Form
In an attention economy optimised for brevity, the long essay is a contrarian act. Why depth still matters, and what it produces that short-form cannot.
Intellectual Property as Strategy
Most organisations treat IP as a legal category. The ones that compound over time treat it as a strategic asset. On the difference between owning ideas and building with them.
The Editorial Function
Editing is not correction. It is the act of understanding what a piece of writing is trying to do, and helping it do that more completely. On what editors actually do, and why it matters.
On the Uses of Obscurity
Not everything worth saying can be said plainly. A defence of difficulty in writing — and a distinction between obscurity that earns its keep and obscurity that does not.