Writing
Notes and essays, plus a stream of microposts.
Evergreen
- Strategic staircase method as solution to knowledge gap note
- Desire note
- Jesus note
- I See the Birds note
- What a Page Can Be essay
- Strategic Staircase — Visual Template note
- Fail Closed essay
Microposts
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10 Aug 2024Currently reading: The Once and Future King by T. H. White 📚 I am only four chapters into this book I know NOTHING about, and it’s funny and wonderfully written…
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9 Aug 2024Illustration of two girls reading from bookshelves. One is Hermione from Harry Potter, the other is Belle from Beauty and the Beast, and both are drawn in the s…
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9 Aug 2024I am drooling over Good Made Better's book warden and book weights. 📚 I didn't know book weights were a thing, and the book warden is a brilliant solution to a…
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9 Aug 2024Alvaro Montoro's 100 days of CSS illustrations is so cool. Not only because she's a good illustrator, but she can turn that into CSS, and that CSS can do that.…
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9 Aug 2024Maggie Appleton's article on home-cooked softwares and barefoot developers is sooo interesting. As a designer who enjoys development but lacks the time, I'm sto…
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11 Jul 2024So I read parts of Cixin Liu's sci-fi anthology Wandering Earth. 📚 Fantastic, but I noticed some funny things: He hates Australia The sun is the enemy He thinks…
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11 Jul 2024My wife has no interest in Godzilla movies, but she walked in while I was watching Godzilla: Minus One and actually stuck around. 🎥 I loved the movie, and was s…
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11 Jul 2024Okay, I just watched Jaws for the first time 🎥 and HOLY COW it holds up! The mayor! Quint's speech! Richard Dreyfuss! And the dialogue—I loved how natural it fe…
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11 Jul 2024I recently watched Mary and the Witch's Flower from Studio Ponoc. 🎥 Charming movie. Two questions: 1. How did Mary and her grandmother both give up magic so eas…
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18 Jun 2024Janet Vertesi, The Encyclopedia Project, Or How to Know in the Age of AI: In the meanwhile, I’m reading the encyclopedia. And I’m enjoying the astonishing novel…
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10 Oct 2023Last night, my kid discovered how to escape the play pen on his own. We put him to bed five times last night! Who needs a scary movie when suddenly your two-yea…
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10 Oct 2023Damon Linker's thoughts on the Israeli massacre model for me a key attitude in issues like this—acknowledging a hard problem as, well, hard (a lovely post by @a…
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10 Oct 2023A welcome surprise—a new Brandon Sanderson novel just dropped this morning. 📚 There goes my next few days!
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6 Oct 2023📚 My current book stack. I know I need to pick up fiction soon, but I'm happy with my reading for now!
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6 Oct 2023This gloriously chaotic and quirky organizational tip from The Verge's Andru Marino made me laugh out loud. When I need to remember an important meeting, I plac…
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6 Oct 2023Well, Loki was fun. 📺 By far Marvel’s most visually distinctive show, and the only one that has me replay the end credits for the set design. Excited to see wha…
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5 Oct 2023💬 A quote I meditate on often. Today, I’m thinking of my own, personal limits—mainly my ADHD. There are things I want to do, but I haven’t the attentional capac…
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5 Oct 2023This brilliant thread on Hebrew names by Ari Lamm is Exhibit 777 why I really want to learn Hebrew. Basically, I’m missing all the puns!
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4 Oct 2023🍿Just watched The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar. Just 40 minutes of delight and whimsy, boxed up in a Wes Anderson-style package of color and magnificent stage…
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22 Sep 2023I had no idea it's Hobbit Day, but I am definitely adding this to my annual calendar. Any excuse to listen to Howard Shore's incredible score—or even This Wande…