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  • Aug 2
    Essay The Small God of the Internet

    It was a small announcement on an innocuous page about “spring cleaning”. The herald, some guy with the kind of name that promised he was all yours. Four sentences you only find because you were …

    5 min
  • Jul 31
    EssayWorld Machines Looking Forward to Montaigne

    As part of the Contraptions book club we will be reading the Essays of Montaigne. I actually started to read the Donald Frame translations, but felt I needed more context. In the book club, Paul …

    2 min
  • Jul 28
    Essay Work or Play? Ludic Feedback Loops

    In his substack post today, Venkatesh Rao wrote about reading and writing in the age of LLMs as playing and making toys respectively. In one part he writes about how the dopamine feedback loop from …

    2 min
  • Jul 27
    Essay On Protocols, Wagons, and Associated Acrobatics

    Years ago, maybe a decade even, I fell in love with this software called Scrivener. I could never justify buying it because I didn’t actually write. But having that software would represent a little …

    3 min
  • Jul 20
    Essay The secret flag of content

    I don’t have any fun when I use LLMs to write. It may have perceived utility: popping out a LinkedIn article or two everyday. But I bet no one is actually reading. It’s a strip mall for a thumb …

    2 min