I'm Adil Nussipov. I write about technology, craft, and the way attention shapes how we live and work. These are long-form essays—things that took time to think through.
Featured
-
July 2021
Is there Global Governance for Data?
Global data governance is in its emerging fragmented form. I argue that there are two reasons for this fragmentation: a clear divide between winners and losers and a lack of suitable political arrangements that would accommodate their differences.
-
January 2021
Future Politics
On Jamie Susskind's Future Politics — how data, AI, and code are reshaping power and democracy, and why our political language hasn't caught up.
-
March 2020
Agile Global Governance
Why post-war global institutions can't keep up with technological change — and a sketch of a more adaptive, multi-stakeholder way to govern.
Recent Writing
-
July 2026
Markdown & Formatting Cheatsheet
Every formatting feature this site understands — standard markdown, the iA Writer extensions, and the site's own blocks — with iA Writer keyboard shortcuts where they exist.
-
August 2025
Books Bookmark Us
A summer of rediscovering fiction — and the quiet thought that while we bookmark books, books bookmark us.
-
August 2023
Runs, Jazz, Parks and Ramen
A Budapest summer in four rituals — morning runs, a rediscovery of jazz, quiet hours in parks, and the hunt for good ramen.
-
May 2023
Coffee Sour Beer
A short love letter to sour beers — discovering them in Copenhagen, and the three best I've tried so far.
-
July 2021
Is there Global Governance for Data?
Global data governance is in its emerging fragmented form. I argue that there are two reasons for this fragmentation: a clear divide between winners and losers and a lack of suitable political arrangements that would accommodate their differences.