all the channels
variable rewards Today was a fairly typical day in which I spent most of my time in front of the computer, clicking around, ty
disregard previous instructions
(This post was kicked off by witnessing a younger version of myself struggling with something about permanent records.)
internet
(2023jun1 thread) in response to the time war story, bigolas dickolas: I’ve told variations of this story several times but
drafts aug2022-may2023
drafts from time to time people ask me something like “what have you changed your mind the most on” and it’s
the dynamism problem
(abandoned substack draft) “My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as se
stressin’
(abandoned substack draft) I have seven different tabs open right now, each with a different draft of a different substack ess
junkyard of vague intentions
Earlier this morning I wrote 1,500 words, and then I dumped them in my junkyard (below, lol). I feel pretty good about it. Tho
writing from the heart
(abandoned substack draft) It’s funny how the bog of life’s troubles can creep up on you. Even when you’ve done the read
how to name things?
(abandoned substack draft) how to name things thinking is easy, information architecture is hard Noticed several of my creativ
aesthetic resonance
WHAT IS THE POINT OF THIS FUCKING ESSAY. I WANT YOU TO CONSIDER YOUR AESTHETICS. BUT NO RIGHT NOW MORE IMPORTANTLY I WANT TO A
selfsense1. not tired but knotted
“Nobody heard him, the dead man,But still he lay moaning:I was much further out than you thought And not wa
resonance over coherence
This is an abandoned Substack draft from March 2023 I have hundreds of drafts and thousands of notes. Sometimes I feel a sense
nyc
sometimes experiences take a while to really blossom into their fullness. i finally visited nyc for the first time in february
real social media has never been tried
I tell this story a lot when talking about the promise of social media. The title feels like it should be the title of a hendr
scenius: with love comes criticism
(abandoned substack draft) I used to be a very active member of my local music scene. I’d attend a lot of shows. I wrote com
culture1- singapore, stereotypes, seeing, crossroads
Alright, Chinese New Year is a good topic since it’s CNY in a couple of days, and it’s a useful entry point for thinking a
Iron FAN, mk2, out of the cave
(abandoned substack post) solutions that extend beyond One of my favorite blogposts by Venkatesh Rao was about the Iron Man mo
scenius2: Write my way out – men of letters / erasmus,mersenne, stein
(abandoned substack draft – this one I’ll probably actually revisit and work again) “If my humors happen to plea
artful incompleteness
(abandoned substack draft) No piece of work can ever fully contextualize itself, you’ll go mad trying. But what if things we
we are all Vincent Adultman
Social fabric is woven with polite fictions. One of the major threads in that fabric is the idea of a unilateral self. The ide
recharge your talismans
(abandoned substack draft) meaningful objects matter because we’re all gonna die tend to them, attend to them, they are
how to fckn read
(abandoned substack post) I have been very helpful (1) to a lot of people in a lot of ways. But I can’t help you if you canâ
plaintext
Some shit about written language. Cuneiform. Rewatch that extra credit video. Hyper literacy âś± i love to be a wh
mediastudies 1
(abandoned substack post) feel like the title of this post should be a quote about polaroid I’ve always wanted to research a
transcendent incompleteness / in media res / media studies2
(Abandoned substack draft) how do we find joy in an existence within constraints? how does art break through the bandwidth lim
how to talk to people
(abandoned substack draft) how to talk to people most people are doing it pretty badly. god, so badly. it’s so fucking i
branching paths (jump cuts)
(abandoned substack draft) There’s a lot I want to talk about, but I will need many tries to begin to get it right. So hereâ