Twenty-five years ago, I moved from San Francisco to the UK, from a fellowship at Berkeley to a permanent job at Imperial College, London. A lot has changed since then. I was 35; now I am 60. It was two weeks before 9/11; the world hasn’t seemed as open and free since. I arrived from the Bay Area just after the first dot-com bubble burst. London, adjusting to New Labour after almost two decades of Thatcher and Thatcherism, felt exciting and ... https://andrewjaffe.net/blog/2026/09/25-60/