The Text Hacker Self-Portrait I keep returning to …
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The Text Hacker Self-Portrait I keep returning to this image: myself hunched over a keyboard in the dark, manipulating text to alter reality. Reframing ideas until they yield something new.…
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The answer I got back from the question …
The answer I got back from the question I carried this morning… Tuesday. Early morning walk. The question I carried out with me was this: What is already true in…
“10:46 — Fell into an internet blackhole again. …
“10:46 — Fell into an internet blackhole again. Back to work.” Something honest in that line. Not a confession: a sighting. The kind of thing you’d never write in an…
The happiness paradox: why being good is harder …
The happiness paradox: why being good is harder than you think Most of us think goodness should make us happy. Be kind. Be generous. Tell the truth. Do the right…
I have been thinking about the vocabulary we …
I have been thinking about the vocabulary we use for the inner life. How much of it actually belongs to us. Most of the words we reach for when we…
The danger of romanticising your own life is …
The danger of romanticising your own life is that you eventually stop living it. You start performing it instead. You become a spectator of your own experience, constantly checking to…
Here be dragon The old cartographers had a …
Here be dragon The old cartographers had a habit worth noticing. When they ran out of known world, when the coastline ended and the sea opened into pure conjecture, they…
Your self-story keeps updating in the direction of …
Your self-story keeps updating in the direction of what it already believes. If the story says you have a problem with authority, then every exchange with a boss, a teacher,…
People think I’m repeating myself when I say …
People think I’m repeating myself when I say I’m all about Psyche and Soul. They see a linguistic loop, but I see an alchemical operation. To the dictionary, they are…
There is a quietly subversive move hiding in …
There is a quietly subversive move hiding in plain sight here. This essay by Richard Beard looks like it’s arguing against AI, but the more interesting thing is that it…
Likes Computers can’t surprise by Richard Beard. There …
There is a quietly subversive move hiding in plain sight here. The essay looks like it’s arguing against AI, but the more interesting thing is that it is actually redefining…
Find the poetry in the machine. I love …
Find the poetry in the machine. I love this line. It’s the same pattern that’s played out with every tool that threatened to “replace” human creativity. Photography was going to…
Attention shapes experience by determining what elements of …
Attention shapes experience by determining what elements of reality become vivid and meaningful while others fade into background noise. Where you direct your focus literally constructs your lived reality, not…
The Printing Press Made Polymaths. AI Makes Something …
The Printing Press Made Polymaths. AI Makes Something Stranger. The printing press gave us access to knowledge. AI gives us access to alien intelligence. We’re still in the “faster horse”…
Om Malik started my morning with a post …
Om Malik started my morning with a post (almost a rant) about the forced conformity of creativity on the Internet and how algorithms are forcing creators into a grey-beige world:…
So this animal personality meme is starting to …
So this animal personality meme is starting to make the rounds… I asked ChatGPT this: Considering everything that you know about me, create an image of what animal I would…
Most people don’t fail because their system is …
Most people don’t fail because their system is broken. They fail because they abandon working systems right before they start producing results. We mistake the quiet period of germination for…
Likes 1368 | Why Have Goals in And …
Like Carl Richards I’ve never been a big fan of setting goals either for many of the reasons that he lists in the beginning of his podcast episode. But I…
I read Virginia Woolf’s “Street Haunting” from The …
I read Virginia Woolf’s “Street Haunting” from The Death of the Moth and Other Essays. I love how you wander with her, watching her mind catch on an object and…
I’m experimenting with Indie Blocks and Echofeed. This …
I’m experimenting with Indie Blocks and Echofeed. This is a test note to see if the cross posting works.