Editorial Team
EmpiresDiary is researched and edited by Obadiah, with AI-assisted drafting and a personal proofreading and review pass before any episode is published.
Who Is Responsible For Episodes
Every episode carries Obadiah's byline and links back to this profile. Drafts are produced with AI assistance, then proofread, fact-checked, and curated by Obadiah before publication, so readers always know who is accountable for the final article.
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Obadiah
Editor & Author
Obadiah is an independent history researcher with a long-running fascination for how empires rise, hold together, and ultimately come apart. EmpiresDiary is his project for working through that question seriously across the classical Mediterranean, Byzantium, the Ottoman state, and the Mongol world. He uses AI as a research and drafting partner — having it surface the most important arcs, names, and turning points of each period — and then proofreads, fact-checks, and curates every episode before it is published, so what readers see is a considered narrative rather than an unreviewed model output.
Editorial Standards
Our public standards explain how episodes handle sourcing, uncertainty, corrections, and AI-assisted drafting.