Code Is a Liability
Cory Doctorow 🎯 again
This Was the Moment I Realized Brennan Lee Mulligan Was an Important Artist
I'm a Critical Role stan now
Indieweb Carnival: The Meaning of Life
Connect Connecting Connected Connection
Stone Soup Blues
📃 🥳 Switch-Lit published my first collab on their platform, done with a friend, the prompt was a prose poem where every word has at least one letter in W-R-I-S-T...
Small Cypress on the Meaning of Life
TLDR; it's love
On Being a Founder
Being a founder is terrifying.
How to Horribly End a Year
I crashed my bike on Dec 23rd and broke my hip.
Chipping Away at Our Capacity for Difficulty and Uncertainty
The future is not Skynet or lasers in the sky but something more sinister, slowly chipping away at our capacity for difficulty and uncertainty...
They Are the Same
I'm finding that the journey through, if there is one, involves sacrificing a personally meaningful narrative
Lucy Is 14
For her birthday, she wanted to go to the family 'farm'
From Around the Web
My irregular (and incomplete) link collection
Why Write Online?
When they email or text me about a post it feels like applause from a dark corner of a large, empty theater where I rehearse.
GenAI Helps Me Start Even More Projects I'll Never Finish
Paul Ford and I are not normal. I consider it a point of pride, but it also continues to give me pause when marketers and tech bros regale their respective publications and feeds with promises of an AI-coded future.
Ambiguous Work
I have various ill-defined things I'm working on...
Five Random Thoughts
I thought these were going somewhere, and maybe they were, but I ran out of rabbit-hole time...
From Around the Web
This is mostly an excuse to say I’ve tweaked the design of the site a little bit and I’m happy with said tweaks...
Highlights from Anne Lamott's "Somehow"
I wish the movement of love in our lives more closely resembled the grace of a ballerina, but no, love mainly tromps and plops, falls over and tiptoes through our lives.
I Sobbed Tears of Joy, Which Hasn't Happened in a Long Time
Penn, in his 4th year of the 5-year arch program at Arkansas, attended this earlier this summer, and described it as life-changing....
Copy of an Email from Mike Riddell, 2003
What I do know something about is constant suffering which you are forced to live with...
Helping Define This Thing We Feel Lacking in LLM Responses
Your value lies in your ability to leverage those work primitives, [the things that AI can produce], in ways that reflect your taste, in ways that reflect your expertise.