Notebook

Notebook

This category is stuff that I come across in stuff I read, or watch, or listen to, and don’t want to forget. It’s also a record of thoughts that make up my head noise.
23
Apr

Afterwardness

From I have an even more pressing sense that the next seven years of my life will look very different
21
Apr

Reading The Iliad

Here is a short line: the god spread deadly plague throughout the camp, so that the common troops began to
20
Apr

Texas & VPNs

From the if Houston based artist Ganzeer’s blog. Apparently, there are websites you can't access from Texas
18
Apr

Thursday 4/18 | Delusion

In There are Four Discourses, Lacan says that Freud thought: That all is but a dream and that everyone (if
31
Mar

The mind you want to live with

On this episode of The Ezra Klein Show (Apple Podcasts, NYTimes). Marilynn Robinson says: You will have to live with
30
Mar

[Reading] Ribbonfarm

Writing on his blog Ribbonfarm, Venkatesh Rao says, I was asked in a DM conversation whether I use AI for
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27
Mar

Good Text in Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

I'm reading Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. I'm enjoying it a lot. Here
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25
Mar

Percival Everett & Subjective Meaning

From a New Yorker profile of Percival Everett (who I had never heard of before reading the profile). Everett is
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23
Mar

Reading, research, & procrastination

From the most recent this wonderful post on disquiet: Reading is a form of writing procrastination that sort of doubles
21
Mar

The dopamine-stupidity slope

In issue [227/21] of his [Nightingalingale], Craig Mod writes about the process of making his next book and how