A Public Life, A Private Discipline

A long-form conversation about maintaining consistency in public commitments over an eighteen-year public career.

Kwame Boateng: You've kept a public archive of nearly everything you've done publicly for almost two decades. Why?

Alistair Wren: Because memory is unreliable, and I didn't want my own account of the work to be the only one available. A record with the failures left in is more useful, and more honest, than a highlight reel.

Kwame Boateng: Have you ever wanted to take something down?

Alistair Wren: Constantly. I haven't, because the archive is only credible if it's complete.