Did you know stone fruit like peaches and plums are coming into season this month? (rwblog S6E5)
Currently listening to: 10,000 gecs, 100 gecs I recently realized that instead of trying to actually think of topics, I can just look at all the Obsidian...
Eh, It Wasn’t Worth Celebrating Anyway (rwblog S6E4)
So, I completely missed March, did I? Oh well, nobody really needed March anyway — certainly, Julius Caesar won’t miss it. I’m writing to you here, from the...
In Which I Wax Nostalgic for My Lost Youth (rwblog S6E3)
Let’s get right in to the meaty content! “photo of a shrine to guanyin at dawn”, Stable Diffusion1 In Which I Wax Nostalgic for My Lost Youth Hello from the...
A Cobbled-Together Frankenstein of Fragments (rwblog S6E2)
Hello all and welcome back to rwblog. This time I’m revealing my top 10 books and top 5 films of 2022. I was intending to write longer essays for each of...
You Might Not Think You Need A Milk Frother... (rwblog S6E1)
Welcome Hello, one and all! Welcome to season 6 of rwblog, formerly known as Applied Dilletantery! Why a new season? I want to bring this newsletter back to...
Monthly Changelog (Sep 2022)
Hello friendos! General Site Updates I’ve added a bookmarks page to collect a few of my favorite talks, articles, etc. I cleaned up the site taxonomy a bit...
Monthly Changelog (Aug 2022)
Hey all, here's what's new on rwblickhan.org this month! General Site Updates I cleaned up the site taxonomy a bit. It's now (mostly) cleanly separated...
Analyzing and Synthesizing Thinking Styles
I recommend reading this article on my website! Lately, I’ve been thinking about two thinking styles, which we could call analyzing and synthesizing....
Command Line Tools I Like (2022)
This is another fairly technical post, and in particular presupposes some enthusiasm for the command line. If that isn’t you, feel free to skip this one!...
How I Built It: rwblickhan.org (2022)
Hey folks! This is a fairly technical newsletter about how I built the latest iteration of my personal website. If that doesn’t interest you, feel free to...
rwblog: Tools for 2022
Hey folks, in the spirit of “what’s in your bag,” I wanted to do a quick (and by quick I apparently mean 2,600+ word) overview of the tools I use every day...
52 Books of 2021
Hello all, and welcome back to a new year and a new season of rwblog, née Applied Dilettantery. As a housekeeping note, I’ll no longer be keeping to a...
Hop On Your Boat With A Shovel (AD S4E9)
I had a nice offsprint — I started Moss Roberts’ very long translation of Romance of the Three Kingdoms — but tomorrow it’s back to writing. I wasn’t totally...
Nestled in a Remote Mountain Valley That Receives High Snowfall During the Winter (AD S4E8)
Writing update: I hit 22k words, but I’m feeling a bit burnt out, so I’ve decided to adopt a concept of “writing sprints” — I’ll take the next week off to...
All Writing’d Out (AD S4E7)
16,776 words out of 50,000, or about a third of the way done! “Guanyin (Avalokiteshvara) Standing before Flaming Aureole and Holding a Water Bottle”, Eastern...
A Cool Natural Stream That Turns On and Off Throughout the Day (AD S4E6)
Short missive tonight because it is my self-appointed NAprilWriMo. The count stands at 6,716 / 50,000. That means there won’t be much more than a few links I...
Patiently Waiting To Get Our Vaccines (AD S4E5)
I finally got around to finishing that outline! So, now I just need to write like crazy for the next month… With that said, these newsletters will probably...
Picking and Choosing Elements of Western Culture to Adopt (AD S4E4)
So I didn’t end up taking that outline more seriously and as a result didn’t finish it in time for April — I wish I could say “April Fools”, but I’m...
Hang Out With Some Horses, I Guess? (AD S4E3)
I don’t really have much to talk about this week so this is going to be a short issue mostly focused on links that caught my attention, sorry! “Dragon in the...
I Should Probably Take That Outline More Seriously (AD S4E2)
I was supposed to be writing an outline for the Next Novel™️ that I’m hoping to tackle in April, but instead I found myself bombing through The Sympathizer...
