Writing

16 entries

2026 4 entries

Aug 29
Bookmarknewest Writing with AI
Bookmarked: Writing with AI Interesting that the process is about the same everywhere. Judgement and taste matter a lot but can also be built up. “ I’m not saying we should give AI slop a pass. I hate …
1 min
Aug 1
Bookmark Blaugust 2026 is Coming!
Bookmarked: Blaugust 2026 is Coming! TIL Blaugust is a thing. Looks fun. also so many people writing and wanting to write
1 min
Feb 7
Essay How the Fox with the Long Tail Learned to Play in the Dark Forest
I. Everything is a Balinese Cockfight # It was after a police chase and a conspiratorial lie that Clifford Geertz and his wife Hildred were accepted into the social fabric of 1958 Bali. Until then …
13 min
Jan 11
EssayWorld Machines The Kernel and the Ark
I. The Wall and the Infinite # It is possible that the history of the modern West hinges on a single, melancholic misreading of Voltaire. When Candide, exhausted by the Lisbon earthquake and the …
12 min

2025 1 entry

Dec 26
Essay The Deep Dark Terroir of the Soul
This is the third and final part of the Thicket Series: Part 1: Logic of the Thicket and the Unsearchable Web Part 2: The Architecture of Resistance The history of the working subject might be best …
14 min