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February 5, 2025

writing advice from André Breton

André Breton’s Manifesto of Surrealism remains a rallying cry for writers willing to break free from the rigid structures of thought and let language flow untamed. His approach—writing in a near-trance, embracing the spontaneous, refusing to edit—challenges the way we often think about storytelling. What if writing wasn’t about control...

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February 2, 2025

the social web is the web

I’m right there with Dave on this. Support for links is the basic requirement of the web, the same way we say feeds are required to be a podcast. If you don’t support links not only aren’t you the web, you’re anti-web. In reply to https://oursocialweb.org/. building the web like we...

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January 20, 2025

we see the world not as it is, but as we are

In reply to Sm2n 2025-01-19 #JanPodPoMo 19/31 thinking about @soulcruzer. Thanks for raising such an interesting point in your episode. Your question about whether ChatGPT’s responses excite me because it “knows” my patterns and what inspires me really got me thinking. It reminds me of the way astrology works, where...

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January 17, 2025

the dave diet

In reply to The Dave diet. Dave’s post took me back to my time in the quantified-self movement. I first got into it around 2016, exploring half a dozen apps designed to track different aspects of my life. Back then, it was often called lifelogging, and you could argue that...

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