These aren’t polished essays or tidy aphorisms. They’re scraps I’ve carried around this month—half-heard thoughts, borrowed lines, sudden recognitions—that refused to be forgotten. Zuihitsu literally means “following the brush,” and while my version is shorter and scrappier than the classical form, the impulse feels the same: to catch what drifts across the mind before it … Continue reading Zuihitsu, 2025-12
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Dating Market Diagnostic Tool
Purpose To provide a structured self-diagnostic for romantic market positioning.Outputs: Quadrant (Value × Constraints) Fit score Best lever (Status / Constraint / Fit) Bias flags Confidence level Preamble Before answering, define your dating pool: Who are the people you realistically meet and date (geography, culture, community, orientation)? Keep this in mind as you answer. Section … Continue reading Dating Market Diagnostic Tool
Granola.ai
"We designed Granola to be the best tool for writing meeting notes. Once you start using it, Granola quickly becomes a powerful repository of meetings that you can search through or chat with." - Granola 2.0
National Strength and Conditioning Association: Training Load Chart
This chart gives the approximate one repetition maximum for a given set of repetitions at a specific weight. Why is this useful? You can look at something like Starting Strength's standards. I can currently deadlift 320 pounds 5 times for 1 set. So, this means I should be able to lift 370 pounds once. This … Continue reading National Strength and Conditioning Association: Training Load Chart
Note: Add To New Laptop
An ongoing note of what to add to a new laptop, should I ever buy one. Suggestions welcomed. Will add to over time. Add Whiteboard Contact Paper as bottom layer sticker for cover.
Creative Immiseration
"These tools represent the complete corporate capture of the imagination, that most private and unpredictable part of the human mind. Professional artists aren’t a cause for worry. They’ll likely soon lose interest in a tool that makes all the important decisions for them. The concern is for everyone else. When tinkerers and hobbyists, doodlers and … Continue reading Creative Immiseration
Coin of My Realm: Meaning
https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1577353047667154944 I've been thinking on this tweet a bit lately. How do we determine what is the coin of our realm? What is important to us? I wanted to expand on this tweet. Isn't really "what others offer" is a question of what we value in ourselves, and in other people? Lets leave aside the … Continue reading Coin of My Realm: Meaning
Blog Diet: A Starter List For Your RSS Reader (Updated Spring 2022) by Warren Ellis
"People keep asking me where I find stuff, or where to start with an RSS reader.I exported my subscriptions, and damn, there are a LOT of dead blogs out there. I’m actually shocked at how much of my list is now gone. (And how many sites have shut off their RSS!) Here is a selection … Continue reading Blog Diet: A Starter List For Your RSS Reader (Updated Spring 2022) by Warren Ellis
Oh, You Think You Use a Notebook?
"This year (2022) is going to see my journal/log’s 10th anniversary and 100th notebook. After many attempts to write this up, I’m just going to disgorge it all. This article is long and rambling and I make no apology for it. Feel free to skip around to any part of it which you find interesting."-Dave Gauer, "My Notebook System." … Continue reading Oh, You Think You Use a Notebook?
Photopea.com
"Free online [image] editor supporting PSD, XCF, Sketch, XD and CDR formats. (Adobe Photoshop, Gimp, Sketch, Adobe XD, and CorelDRAW)."https://www.photopea.com/ A javascript implementation of many of the common features of Photoshop. Supposedly easier than GIMP.
Email & Tool Choice
Like everyone, I get more email than I really want. Most of it is newsletters. I usually use Thunderbird for email. It incorporates most of my email into one interface. It uses IMAP to pull the information from the email providers' servers, so I don't have to use some janky, javascript laden website for email. … Continue reading Email & Tool Choice
Importing Excellence
"If you want to know what it is that your own country produces that is genuinely excellent, look for what the most obsessively discerning residents of London and Tokyo choose to import. Look for the choices of the otaku, the fanatic of pure information."—William Gibson in the introduction to Paul Smith, "You Can Find Inspiration … Continue reading Importing Excellence
Essays on Programming I Think About a Lot
"Fast tools don’t just allow users to accomplish tasks faster; they allow users to accomplish entirely new types of tasks, in entirely new ways."—https://www.benkuhn.net/progessays Change the tool, change the outcome.
Highlights of Kevin Kelly’s Unsolicited Advice
"* Being able to listen well is a superpower. While listening to someone you love keep asking them “Is there more?”, until there is no more...* The more you are interested in others, the more interesting they find you. To be interesting, be interested...* To make something good, just do it. To make something great, … Continue reading Highlights of Kevin Kelly’s Unsolicited Advice
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