Companion to "The Book Nobody Can Recommend." That essay argues fiction's distinctive offer is an occupiable position — a stance you can sit inside long enough to meet its costs. This one is the working table that follows from it, kept separate because it is a tool rather than an argument. Genre labels sort by … Continue reading What Each Shelf Is Asking
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Be Conservative in What You Send, Liberal in What You Receive
A one-sheet on posture toward the people around you The principle, and its known failure Jon Postel wrote it for computers talking to each other: send strictly correct output, accept anything you can reasonably interpret. It let a fragile early internet work despite everyone's software being slightly wrong. Engineers later turned against it. Broken implementations … Continue reading Be Conservative in What You Send, Liberal in What You Receive
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