Engineers writing for engineers.
NEXA started in 2020 as a private weekly email among six friends who kept sending each other papers and watercooler theories. Six years later, it’s a publication — but the spirit is the same: curiosity, context, and writing you can trust.
Why we write.
We believe most technology coverage is broken. Either it chases press releases and produces shallow news, or it’s so deep in a single niche that it forgets to tell you why anything matters.
NEXA occupies the middle lane. We pick stories with real technical substance — systems, protocols, shifts in primitives — and we explain them with enough rigor for practitioners and enough context for anyone curious.
If an article can’t explain the idea from first principles, we don’t publish it. If it can only explain the idea from first principles without saying why it matters, we don’t publish that either.
Six years of signal.
Who writes the words.
Six contributors. All practitioners.
Maya Sundaram
Ex-research engineer, Meta AI. Writes on inference economics and agent architectures.
Aleks Kowal
Former red-team lead at a major cloud. Covers threat landscapes and crypto primitives.
Juno Reyes
PhD in quantum information, MIT. Makes quantum error correction readable.
Teo Oduya
Built distributed systems at two unicorns. Writes about the unglamorous parts that run the internet.
Lin Nakamura
Contributor to zk-SNARK tooling. Cuts through crypto hype with math.
Rosa Fuentes
Silicon designer turned writer. Covers chips, robotics, and the physical edge.
Questions, answered.
Is this site monetized?
Yes — via reader subscriptions and a carefully chosen annual sponsor (shown only on the homepage, never in articles). No affiliate links, no crypto ads, no “brought to you by.”
How do I pitch a story?
Send a 3-paragraph summary via the contact form. We respond to every serious pitch within 5 business days. We do not publish guest posts for SEO — only original reporting or deep technical analysis.
Do you use AI to write?
Never for the text itself. Writers may use AI for outlining, research synthesis, or editing assistance — but every published sentence is written, reviewed, and signed off by a human. Our editorial policy is public; it’s linked at the bottom of every article.
What’s your publishing cadence?
Three long-form articles per week, plus a weekly newsletter dispatch on Fridays. We’ve never missed a Friday issue since issue #001 in 2020.
Want to work with us?
Whether you have a story, a pitch, or a correction — we want to hear from you.
Get in touch