Why this blog?
Why a personal site still publishes its own posts in 2026, and what you'll find here.
There are a dozen platforms today that would publish my writing better than this page does: better distribution, better editing tools, a ready-made audience. Yet this page lives here, on my site, under my own domain. Here's why.
Don't rent your audience
A post published on Substack belongs to Substack. Not literally, but to Google's index, yes. Inbound links flow to their domain, not mine. The day the platform changes its rules, shuts down, or paywalls my content, I have no recourse. This blog lives on yassirkazar.com because it's one of the rare digital assets I still own outright.
An honest cadence
One post per month. No more. The goal isn't to produce content: it's to write what I wouldn't have the room to say in a 280-character post or a LinkedIn update.
The themes you'll see recur:
- Cyber and geopolitics: what tech-driven power balances reveal about the state of the world
- Digital sovereignty: beyond the slogan, the concrete trade-offs
- Platform economics: how these counter-intuitive architectures reshape markets
- Decision under complexity: how to choose when the technical depth outruns individual understanding
Newsletter, soon
If you'd rather receive posts by email, the RSS feed is already live. A newsletter integration (likely Substack or Beehiiv, RSS-first) will follow in the coming months. The text still lives here, email is just one more distribution channel.
Until then, see you soon for the first real post.