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66: Taking pleasure in writing
May 13, 2021
My new structure for my newsletter at the start of this year was an attempt to improve my writing. My theory was that by writing about the same thing, and by...
65: Collaboration in Hyperspace
April 29, 2021
I want to talk about some things that have been on my mind as I’ve been implementing collaborative editing in Hyperspace this past week. It’s been a lovely...
64: A short hiatus
April 8, 2021
Hi everyone! I'm going to be taking 3 weeks off from this newsletter and returning on the 28th. I stretched myself a little too far with these last couple...
63: Questions about Regulation
April 1, 2021
What constraints if any would it be useful for society to put on the production and use of digital technologies? Yep, this next newsletter batch is going to...
62: Hearing God
March 25, 2021
In these last newsletters I’ve been talking about prayer as a conversation with God. I’ve kind of skirted around the question of what you’re actually talking...
61: Knowing Prayer
March 18, 2021
To roughly summarize last week's newsletter, prayer is talking to God. Thus far, I've mainly been talking about spontaneous, conversational prayer. The kind...
60: Talking to God
March 11, 2021
Over the last couple of years I’ve been learning more about meditation and feel like I have a decently stable understanding of “how it works”. Roughly, it’s...
59: Thinking about Prayer
March 4, 2021
If you’re new to this newsletter, or just reading this one after a while, hi! I usually write about technology and learning here, and in Season 2 I’m...
58: Personal Logic
February 25, 2021
The vast majority of applications today share a simple architecture. You have your “app” which encodes a whole bunch of “business logic”. Your users interact...
57: Asking the real questions
February 18, 2021
Okay assume this whole personal database thing works out, and I end up with a lil db stuffed full of information. Well, now I need to query it. I can use...
56: Some Facts about Facts
February 11, 2021
My project for the next couple of weeks is implementing a personal database. I want it to store information about the things I read, the thoughts I’m...
55: A database for me
February 4, 2021
Alright well I held off for the first one so y’all would think I’ve turned a new leaf, but, as world the keeps turn, I’m back on my bullshit. My next 4...
54: Seasons and Infinite Games
January 28, 2021
“A Finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play” James Carse, Finite and Infinite Games It seems...
53: Playing Together
January 21, 2021
First a meta note. When I was designing the game that is this newsletter I really messed up with the difficulty curve. Week three comes at you fast. Last...
52: Difficulty modes and learning
January 14, 2021
Two of my favorite games of the last couple years, Celeste and Hades, have had very well considered difficulty systems. Changing the difficulty is nothing...
51: Gameplan for Season 2!
January 7, 2021
Hello again! If you've been with us a bit, nice to see you again, and if you've just tuned in welcome! It's Season Two 1, of this weekly newsletter,...
50: Looking Back Part 2
December 14, 2020
Hello! This is the last newsletter I’ll be writing this year. It’s a little recap of what I’ve been writing about, and how it’s been. I’ve been thinking a...
49: Looking Back Part 1
December 7, 2020
Update on the end of year plans for this newsletter: Next week will be last for the year and I'll start back up some time in January, perhaps the first week...
48: One thing well
November 30, 2020
My little prototype of a information management tool is coming together. My apologies if that description means absolutely nothing to you, “a note-taking...
47: Remarkable Futures
November 23, 2020
A Remarkable Review I love e-ink. It manages to be both an infinitely malleable abstract display, and an object, something that exists in continuitiy with...
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