Ariadne Posts: On Not Yet Knowing the Way Out

My previous series of blog posts—what I’ve been calling the Penelope posts —has been about revisiting past work. These are papers written with collaborators, work that has been peer-reviewed, presented, and, in some sense, settled. Writing about them is an exercise in reconstruction: not of the proofs themselves, but of their meaning. Why did they matter? Why do they still matter to me now? This…