Trading Off Social Dynamism Against Quality of Life

On Creativity, Intuition, and Mastery.

On Creativity, Intuition, and Mastery.

Thoughts on wrapping up 3 years of work on my second novel, getting ready to query.

A long entry through all. Walk with me.

A long entry through all. Walk with me.

April 2026 is about: roads, protocol resolution, ZIRP, and plotting.

February 2026 is about: power-laws in culture, antimemes, and sincerity.

January 2026 is about: algorithms, boredom, AI coding, seriousness, and aesthetics in the 21st century.

Thanks for reading!

Sunday Edition #28: Also, Aesthetics Matters, Top Records of 2000-2025, and new Knives Out

Sunday Edition #22: Also, Amtrak, Lemons, and Revisions, Revisions, Revisions

Also: The Streets of Queens, One Battle After Another, and Night Tapes (again)

Also: History of the Braai, The Lobster, and Naming Conventions

Also: Meditation, Gambling, and Jadu Heart

Also: Mass Stablecoins and Burning Money as Art, Ocean Vuong, and Hades 2

Also: Rifts by Hashrunner, Hades 2, and Metalcore Shoegaze

Also: History of Japanese Urbanism, Art Shows, and Adolescence

Also: Sami Angawi's House, Half-Marathon #3, K-Pop Demon Hunters, and Ocean Vuong

Also: "Bullshit" jobs aren't "Bullshit", AI Boyfriends, and Sofia Kourtesis

Also: Exit Through the Casino, Protocol Futurology, and new Big Wild Album

Conversations: When Kernels and Agents Combine

Also: Urban Archeology, Hiding Character Goals from the Reader, and new Tourist

Also: Soft City, A-Corps Updates, Thoughts on Moving, and Lord Huron

Also: On Rejections, Genie 3, Naked Gun, and new Night Tapes

Also: A Decade of Ethereum, Getting Artists Paid, and Common Side Effects

It's not just about protocols. Nothing is inevitable.

Also: Mario Kart World's Impeccable Soundtrack, Paddington 2, and new Tame Impala

Also: AI 2027, Marriage, and the new White Lies single

Also: More California, Copyleft, and NYC Congestion Pricing Success

Also: California, Dynamic Onchain NFTs, and Post-Legible Internet

Also: Querying, AI vs GeoGuessr, and Kevin Can F**K Himself

Does your work channel energy back to the person that is spending their short time in this life to be curious about what you created? If not, you risk only extracting from the people you’ve asked to p...

Also: Web Fiction, LLMs as Subjectivity Machines, and The Materialists

Welcome to another Sunday Edition where I share what I’ve been up to!

Or: A Personal Journey of Grief and The Acceptance of Burdens Alongside a Present Pilgrimage and Contiguous World Experience in the Age of Flight, a New Pope, and AI

Also: The Torch Skyscraper, Rally House, and more Protocol Art.