What is a bucket of eels?

Good question. I wrote about it here. The much shorter version is that due to a combination of magical thinking, and simply misremembering something I read, whenever I’m struggling with the idea of creativity I try to imagine reaching into a bucket of magical eels, and pulling one out.

That is what this newsletter will be like. Some of the eels in here will be tiny babies, some will be old and tired, some will be well trained and others stubborn and slimy and possibly slightly zappy. You never know what might come out until you reach into the bucket.

Put less annoyingly: if you want to keep up with the work I, Rose Eveleth, am doing, subscribe here.