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April 2024

• Maggi Hambling on making work your best friend #quotes
• Automating My Manuscript Folder Setup with a Simple Script

October 2023

• Getting Started with Local Development for Pico-8 and VS Code

September 2023

• What Happens When Writers Use AI Tools? #writing

February 2023

• Focus #work life
• The Gravity of the Situation #work life
• How to Prioritize When Everything is a Priority #work life
• Unblock yourself #work life
• Talk about How - The Importance of Talking About How We Work #work life

January 2023

• From Cubicles to Craftsmanship: An Inquiry into the Value of Work #work life
• On AI harming the Artists #robots
• The Optimistic Action Bias: Turning Positive Thinking into Positive Results #work life
• The Power of Iteration #miscellaneous
• Laws of Wealth I wish I knew earlier in life #miscellaneous
• The Cubicle Spangled Banner #miscellaneous
• The Busy Mind: A Paradox #miscellaneous
• Measuring Progress: How a Plan Keeps You on Track #work life
• Why One-Size-Fits-All Mantras Don’t Work #miscellaneous
• You Are Your Experiences: How Your Environment Shapes Your Mind #mindfulness
• Journey #miscellaneous
• On AI harming the Artists - Market competition #robots
• Show yourself more kindness #mindfulness
• Be More Regular Creating A Wholistic Life #mindfulness
• A state of Flow #mindfulness
• On too much focus #mindfulness
• Writing Hooks #writing
• The core tenets of rule-making and rule-living #miscellaneous
• Recap of 100 days of daily blogging #writing
• Machine Art #miscellaneous
• 32,872 days #miscellaneous
• 3 Rules for living (a life of rules) #miscellaneous
• The 4-Notebook Method for Life Planning and Organization #writing
• Freeform journaling: How to Embrace the Mess and Find Value in Your Notes #writing
• Maximize the Value of Your Journal Notes: 5 Simple Steps to Follow #writing
• The 1-Month Project Plan to Boost Your Productivity: A Guide #work life
• The Power of the Regular Brain-Dump #mindfulness
• The Dehumanization of Decision Making: Why It’s Time to Reclaim Our Individuality from Institutions #robots
• The Constant Pressure to Be Perfect: How to Cope and Find Relief #mindfulness
• Leadership and Art: 5 Keys to Success in Either Field #work life
• The Healing Power of Creativity: How Crafting and Labor Bring Order to Chaos and Peace to the Soul #miscellaneous

December 2022

• Don’t Be Afraid to Mark Up Your Books: Why Underlining and Annotating Is Actually a Good Thing #writing
• Step-By-Step Guide To Setting up Vial for the Planck on macOS
• Step-By-Step Guide To Setting up VIA for the Planck on macOS
• Step-By-Step Guide To Setting up QMK for the Planck on macOS
• Step-By-Step Guide To Configuring Your Planck Using QMK, VIA and Vial on macOS
• Encouraging Proactive Behavior in Your Team to Foster a Culture of Initiative and Innovation #ChatGPT #work life
• Top 7 Open Source Draggable UI Component Libraries for the Web #miscellaneous
• AI Skepticism: A Look at the Ethics and Future of AI Art #robots
• A Detailed Overview of QMK, VIA, and Vial Visual Configurators for Mechanical Keyboards
• Order, Rules, and the Creative Life #miscellaneous
• Order, Rules, and the Creative Life - Notes #hidden #miscellaneous
• Top 5 Open Source Draggable Grid Layout UI Libraries for the Web #miscellaneous
• TIL about Process Art #miscellaneous
• Tom Sachs RGB Color Swatches #miscellaneous
• To make art put yourself first #miscellaneous
• Writing as ideation #writing
• Embrace the pain #miscellaneous
• Writing as therapy #writing
• Writing as therapy - Notes #hidden #writing
• TIL about Do Easy #miscellaneous
• How to remember everything #miscellaneous
• TIL about Frieder Nake #til
• TIL about the inner magic of Penrose tiling #til
• How to figure out what to work on next #miscellaneous
• Lies on Mars: A Tale of a Father and Son’s Journey to the Red Planet #Fiction #Flash Fiction #ChatGPT #ToAI
• TIL about vector apps for Mac #til
• TIL about Van Neistat #til
• TIL about Tom Sachs #til
• An Illustrated Guide to all Symmetry Types
• TIL about Knolling #til
• TIL about Symmetry OCD #til
• Mistakes #miscellaneous
• Late once, never twice #miscellaneous

November 2022

• Exposure Training #mindfulness
• Loneliness and Robots #robots
• Solving the Right Problems #work life
• Writing for Mindfulness #mindfulness
• Harmonious Color Palettes #miscellaneous
• Be careful what you wish for #miscellaneous
• Thank you all #miscellaneous
• The power of minutes #miscellaneous
• Stockpiling #miscellaneous
• World-building creativity #miscellaneous
• Being right #work life
• Which way you ought to go #miscellaneous
• Adequate progress #miscellaneous
• Reach out #miscellaneous
• Never give up, never surrender #work life
• Why work #work life
• Create memes to exert influence #work life
• What can you obsess about #mindfulness
• Core concepts for a macOS native development newbie #miscellaneous
• Passion for learning #work life
• Biased decision making #work life
• Political independence at work #work life
• Smart Reads - JavaScript Edition #lists
• Smart Reads #lists
• High-level Reading: Understanding the Gist #mindfulness
• The two requirements of a job #work life
• Getting laid off #work life
• The Power of Labeling #work life
• Start with Empathy #work life
• Effective leadership #work life

October 2022

• Quick Communication #work life
• Can you predict the future? #work life
• Distributed power #work life
• Cowards and assholes #work life
• Passed over #mindfulness
• After you are gone #writing
• Repetition Bias #work life
• Leadership #work life
• The Morning Trigger #mindfulness
• To meditate is to struggle #mindfulness
• It’s all in the delivery #work life
• To Be Inspiring #work life
• When you no longer fit #work life
• Regarding your secret reorg #work life
• Finding Mindfulness #mindfulness
• Never wait to get started #work life
• Reading to Calm the Mind #mindfulness
• The leader next door #work life
• Effective decision-making for leaders #work life
• Seeking Mindfulness #mindfulness
• Augmented Cheating #robots
• Recognizing Burnout #mindfulness
• The Everyday Practice #writing
• The Cult of Confidence #work life
• We are all just doing our best #work life
• Dry the Well #writing

August 2022

• Two Giant Robots Walk All Over A City Destroying Things #Fiction #Flash Fiction
• Kurt Vonnegut On Remembering Wars #quotes

July 2022

• Against the total and ultimate meaninglessness of life #quotes
• A list of baby toys #lists
• A List of Obsessions #lists
• A List of Childhood Daydreams #lists
• A List of Lists #lists
• On Flow #mindfulness

April 2022

• Kurt Vonnegut on the Effects of a Writers’ Strike #writing
• John Dufresne on writing against the clock #writing
• Visualizing 10 years of writing #writing
• Joyce Carol Oates on Writing #writing
• Pedro Almodovar on the Life of Characters #quotes

February 2022

• Matt Mullenweg on self-care #mindfulness

January 2022

• Paul Thomas Anderson on reverse writer’s block #writing
• Writing advice from Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch: #writing

December 2021

• Bob Lefsetz on following the rules
• Haruki Murakami:
• Jill Harris, Novel Writing Blueprint:

November 2021

• William James on Daily Rituals
• Hemingway on Daily Writing

October 2021

• Dave Grohl on writing
• Joan Didion on the reason for writing
• A Newbie Guide to Building The Planck, a 40% Ortholinear Mechanical Keyboard

August 2021

• On Internet Checkpoints
• On self-aware AI
• Bourdain’s AI
• On active learning
• On the Luckiness of Death
• On fractons
• On writing amid others
• On a beginner’s mind
• On why we create

July 2021

• On being unproductive

February 2021

• My First Exocortex #Fiction #Flash Fiction #GPT-3 #ToAI

January 2021

• GPT-3 Programming 101
• Drug Machine #Fiction #Flash Fiction #GPT-3 #ToAI
• Robot Theology #Fiction #Flash Fiction #GPT-3 #ToAI
• Robot Spurt #Fiction #Flash Fiction #GPT-3 #ToAI
• Come to me and be human #ToAI #Fiction #Flash Fiction #GPT-3
• GPT-3 101
• Luky AI #ToAI #Fiction #Flash Fiction #GPT-3
• Sunset Gradient Countdown #ToF #Fiction #Flash Fiction
• Murder Brain #ToF #Fiction #Flash Fiction
• The Right Question #ToF #Fiction #Flash Fiction
• 3 AM Call #ToF #Fiction #Flash Fiction
• Graveyard Through the Stars #ToF #Fiction #Flash Fiction
• Electric Hookah #ToF #Fiction #Flash Fiction
• Android Salvation #ToF #Fiction #Flash Fiction
• Robot John #ToF #Fiction #Flash Fiction
• I was a robot once #ToF #Fiction #Flash Fiction
• Mushroom TV Broadcast (or Psycho-Musrooms) #ToF #Fiction #Flash Fiction
• Shelter Fever #ToF #Fiction #Flash Fiction
• Robot at the Symphony #ToF #Fiction #Flash Fiction
• Cosmic Miasma #ToF #Fiction #Flash Fiction
• Metalic Blue Eyes #ToF #Fiction #Flash Fiction
• Hunter on the Scorched Planet #ToF #Fiction #Flash Fiction
• In the Blink of a Galaxy #ToF #Fiction #Flash Fiction
• Riding the atom #ToF #Fiction #Flash Fiction
• One Universe at a Time #ToF #Fiction #Flash Fiction
• Traumas Be Damned #ToF #Fiction #Flash Fiction
• What I Saw #ToF #Fiction #Flash Fiction
• The Coup of the Red Drones #ToF #Fiction #Flash Fiction
• What is Coding prose or Ventilated prose
• Harlan Ellison Afterword On “Author” vs “Writer”
• Max Cooper’s Repetition

December 2020

• Get a day job

November 2020

• First you need to produce the clay, then you must mold it into shape.

September 2020

• Obsessive Perfectionist
• Getting work done during a pandemic
• Orange Skies

February 2020

• Writing + Git
• Lefsetz on life

January 2020

• On blogging voices
• I am a human being
• Alejandro Jodorowsky on Making Art
• The you in you isn’t the you you think is in you.
• On Letting AI Write the Story
• William Gibson on the Short Story Format
• Everyday: Kate Bingaman-Burt’s Daily Drawings
• Everyday: Austin Kleon on Daily Blogging
• Bruce Sterling on Science Fiction
• I’ve Seen the Future and I’m Not Going
• In One Sentence: Evensong by Lester del Rey
• On the Revival of the Novella
• Seth Godin on writing bad
• Chuck Wendig on getting back to blogging
• Ray Bradbury on the practice of daily writing
• We are all writers
• Chuck Wendig on Writing During Weird Times
• Walter Mosley on black heroes
• Writing fiction with Atom

December 2019

• 2020 Goals
• “You must write to the end of the story.You must make progress toward that end today.”
• Heinlein’s Rules
• In one sentence: Uncanny Valley by Greg Egan
• “What are stories but mystery boxes?”
• In One Sentence: Student Body by F. L. Wallace
• In One Sentence: The Deathbird by Harlan Ellison
• Short Stories to Read on 2020
• One short story a week
• Harlan Ellison on Writing
• Sci-Fi Magazine Submissions
• “You learn more from finishing a failure than you do from writing a success.”

September 2019

• We are all the same, all that’s different is the story we tell ourselves about who we are.
• Automan
• Although my mother was never officially diagnosed — the idea of seeking a medical intervention added to her feelings of failure and shame — it’s clear that she suffered from some form of depression.

August 2019

• “Everyone complains about the laws of physics, but no one does anything about them.”1 —Greg Egan, Schild’s Ladder

July 2019

• How to write a complex SciFi plot without going mad
• Negroponte on Transhumanism
• Practically perfect people never permit sentiment to muddle their thinking.
• AI programming
• The value of a book
• Altered states of consciousness
• Winning Isn’t Everything, it’s the Only Thing
• The more that I force myself to get rid of digital clutter, the more that I find myself seeking analog intellectual stimulation.
• The Beginning of Nanotechnology
• Learning by Teaching
• The legacy of Turing
• The Cognitive Transformation of AI-assisted Interfaces
• A negative approach
• What life really looks like
• Onward through the impossible
• Deepfake — In which we learn that video can lie like a pro
• “The hard is what makes it great”
• The C-word — Consciousness
• During one interview, Gilberto stared out the window.
• The Others
• John Gruber on the state of blogging
• Of Mushrooms and Robots
• Earthquake refections
• A True Story
• Quick thoughts on the writer’s block
• Something Is Broken in Our Science Fiction
• What hallucination reveals about our minds
• Young man on acid
• The Origin of Consciousness
• How to read many more books in a year
• The Protagonist’s Journey
• On reducing noise

June 2019

• Tricking the monkey brain
• Silence
• Paranoia Agent
• On Distributed Thinking
• The creation of a riddle
• The making of one
• Movie Loops
• 3 kinds of people
• Why write
• 24/7
• Failed dreams
• Dylan
• Creation > Consumption
• A clean desktop is a clean mind
• The journey
• Choose pain
• On being quiet
• One sentence everyday
• Idle curiosity

February 2019

• Pioneer Phase II: A Robot Deployment #TMC #Fiction #Short Fiction
• Neon Under a Starry Night #TMC #Fiction #Short Fiction

January 2019

• Nick Cave On the Limitations of Mechanical Artists
• Source Code to the Soul #TMC #Fiction #Short Fiction
• A Few Storytelling Tricks I Learnt From Netflix’s Bird Box
• The Empath #TMC #Fiction #Short Fiction
• Obsessions & Habits
• Animal in the Flesh #TMC #Fiction #Short Fiction
• Heart of a Robot #TMC #Fiction #Short Fiction
• On the Repetition of Rap

December 2018

• The Burden of the Creative Artist
• Tribute to Albert Camus by Jean-Paul Sartre
• The Conceptual Loops of Daniel Eatock
• Notebooking Habit
• Henry Darger and the Perseverance of a Lifetime
• It Feels Great To Do Little
• Virtual Legacy #TMC #Fiction #Short Fiction
• Blood of a Runaway #TMC #Fiction #Short Fiction

November 2018

• Stephen King Says It’s OK Not To Plot
• On the Value of a $450K Piece of Digital Art
• A Freudian analysis of Humans and Machines in classic films
• The Myth of the Beast #TMC #Fiction #Short Fiction
• In the Quiet Dead of Space #TMC #Fiction #Short Fiction
• A Solo Cocktail at the Headless Horse #TMC #Fiction #Short Fiction

July 2018

• Man vs. Machine
• Ernest Hemingway on the Daily Practice of Writing
• History of the Far Future
• The Hero’s Identity

June 2018

• On Quiet Minds
• On the Value of Bad Art
• Sometimes I See People
• Inner Logic of Sci-Fi Stories
• On Doing the Right Thing
• On the Robot Soul
• Theme and Meta-Theme in Coco
• Logic and Emotion
• On Being Scrappy and Clever
• No Comments
• Writing can save your life

May 2018

• On Tom Wolfe

October 2017

September 2017

• Isaac Asimov, Harlan Ellison & Gene Wolfe discuss Science Fiction back in 1982

August 2017

• Roosevelt on victory and defeat
• r.H. Sin on using Instagram as a writer

July 2017

• Word of the day: Logotherapy
• Carl Richards On Judging Your Own Work
• Michael Swanwick on Writing Short Stories

March 2017

• Book outlining and an icon timeline

January 2017

• Orson Scott Card on beginning and ending a story
• Ralph Waldo Emerson on self-reliance
• Absolute best quote from all of Westworld Season 1
• How to find peace in a busy world
• Gene Wilder’s Final Monologue from Rhinoceros (1974)
• How robots could easily manipulate us
• Is consciousness a requirement for super-intelligence?
• Doris Lessing on writing self-fiction
• John C. Lilly, biocomputers and the difficulty of studying consciousness
• The levels of Show Don’t Tell
• Leave Life Exhausted
• My character needed a flaw, and this is what I got
• 2016 Failures
• Not A Resolution, But A Plan For 2017
• On Planning A New(ish) Book
• Max Interviewing Max: Conversations With Myself
• On Being Quick And Dirty
• I Am Planning For Somebody Else To Write My Novel
• New Year’s Resolutions

December 2016

• The Brain Is A Pattern Matching Machine
• Blade Runner 2049
• Top Tyrants from Sci-Fi Movies

October 2016

• Plotting Your Book: Story Drafting
• A Complete Guide for Planning and Drafting your Book: A NaNoWriMo Checklist
• Charlie Kaufman on Writing Stories and Taking Risks

August 2016

• Bill Cunningham on Technique vs Storytelling
• The Dry Zone
• Writing Serial Books, Short Formats for a Distracted Audience
• Sunday report: August week #2
• Kealan Patrick Burke on Succeeding at Self-Publishing
• John Scalzi on Manboy Audiences and Women Protagonists
• On Writing but not just being a Writer
• Sunday report: August week #1
• Taran Matharu on using Wattpad for Fiction Writing
• Ira Glass on Being a Newbie
• It’s Written in the Stars
• On Failing and Being a Failure
• Frances Stroh on Writing
• Hugh Howey on the Health of the Writing Industry

July 2016

• 10 Lessons from the Kings of Lowbrow Cinema, A Writer’s Confession
• The 9 Most Inspiring TED Talks for Novice (and Expert) Writers
• Abby Rosmarin on Aspiring Writers
• Daniel Arenson Advice to Aspiring Indie Authors
• On Starting All Over Again: 6 Learnings From a Failed Draft
• Top 10 Most Popular Twitter Hashtags for Writers

June 2016

• Taran Matharu on writing the book he wanted to read
• John Scalzi on treating writing as a business
• On the importance of handwriting, or why do I carry a notebook everywhere I go
• Write even when it feels uncomfortable, specially when it does
• Bookstore temptations: June Edition
• To find your motivation answer this question: Why do you write?
• Book Review: Advanced Screenwriting

May 2016

• Bookstore Temptations: May Edition

March 2016

• More On Printed Books And The Future Of Traditional Publishers

February 2016

• On Punctuation
• Libbie Hawker On Writing Speed
• Lindsey Brouker On The Long Tail Of Sales For Indie Authors
• Book: Writing Science Fiction And Fantasy
• Dali on Failing
• James Baldwin On Writing Endurance
• On Printed Books And The Future Of Traditional Publishers
• Hugh Howey On Writing
• On ebook prices set by publishers
• On “Free” Writing Platforms

January 2016

• Visual Symbolism In 1977’s Saturday Night Fever
• Bookstore temptations
• Fractal structures found in classic books
• On Fairy Tale Stories Being Older Than Writing Itself
• The Journey Is The Destination