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The Creative Process
March 1, 2025
And the key to creativity
Words, Concepts, Being
January 31, 2025
Language and the ouroboros
An Infinite Dialogue of the Imagination
December 31, 2024
Borges on AI-generated "art"
A Chance to Occur
November 10, 2024
Interpretations of Infinite Jest from the school of mindfulness
The Order of the Invisible Sun
August 23, 2024
A mystery of murdered philosophers
Dreamsick
August 1, 2024
Dreams are not some marvel of the human mind
Notes for my Death
July 13, 2024
Thoughts I would like to outlive me
The Desert of Meaning
May 16, 2024
Does The Matrix illustrate the thesis of Simulacra and Simulation?
Things Celestial and Things Mundane
April 13, 2024
Notes from my pilgrimage
In Preparation for the Third Quarter Board Meeting
March 27, 2024
A story from behind the scenes
Apropos of Ego
February 29, 2024
The Underground Man and humanity's greatest profit
How to Protect Yourself from the Fiend's Flaming Brain
February 16, 2024
A note from an alchemist
Interpreting Yonder
February 3, 2024
Reality as text
An Astronomical Archaeology
January 12, 2024
Deciphering remnants
Oh God Please Help Me I Can't Stop Braising
December 15, 2023
How to take your flavor to the next level
A Reconception of Destiny
December 5, 2023
The acorn theory and the utility of myth
Glimmers Now the Afterglow
November 24, 2023
Thermodynamic reckoning
The Stone at Fimmvörðuháls
November 9, 2023
Writing from The Potato Storage
I Cordially Invite You to Unsubscribe
October 30, 2023
One year of Orbis Tertius
The Ninety-Seventh Voyage
October 2, 2023
A story from the trail
Codex Seraphinianus, the Proto-Blog
September 18, 2023
And stories from Borges's library
Writing Like a Monte Carlo Algorithm
September 4, 2023
Behold, the work of an insane Daedalus
The Dream Stream
August 21, 2023
Do we ever arrive?
The Lobotomization of Literature
August 7, 2023
Hysteria over hysteria
I Stand Beside Your Morning
July 24, 2023
"Imagine, trying to do that. What foolishness."
Borges and the Essay
July 10, 2023
Literature courts its own demise
The Metaphysics of Novels and Magic
June 26, 2023
Borges's "Narrative Art and Magic"
Please Continue Scanning
June 12, 2023
A story in the self-checkout
Real Morality?
May 29, 2023
A follow-up to "Unreal Persons"
On Mindfulness
May 15, 2023
A discussion of contemplation and practice
This Content is for Human Consumption Only
May 1, 2023
The rights of creators in the presence of potential AI usurpers
The Shadow of Action
April 17, 2023
Free will and the two realities
A Simple Recipe for Risotto and Existential Anguish
April 3, 2023
This classic technique is a staple for a reason
The Moral Puzzle of Sinbad the Sailor
March 20, 2023
Mercy, intention, and freedom of choice
The Denizens of Dreams
February 20, 2023
What is it like to be an uploaded brain?
English is a Terrible Programming Language
February 6, 2023
And other reasons AI won't displace programmers
Unreal Persons
January 23, 2023
A follow-up to "Morality and Marginal Existence"
This Caprice of Ours
January 9, 2023
The Underground Man and humanity's greatest profit
When it Rains in Colorado
December 26, 2022
A reflection on transience
Return to Classic Effective Altruism
November 28, 2022
Cynicism, skepticism, and the true promise of EA
The Myth of Anonymity
November 14, 2022
Uncanny ads, correlation, and the longterm future of privacy
Morality and Marginal Existence
October 31, 2022
Intuitions on anti-natalism, longtermism, and repugnancy