Happy new 2024 everyone 🙂 It feels weird to write a summary of 2023 since my archive contains exactly 0 posts from 2023. It looks like this place is a ghost town by now, never to come alive again. Maybe that's true, in that I'll probably move to Substack to keep writing when my book … Continue reading 2023 Review: Book
Tag: writing
Catch-up ’22
I sum up the year and give an overview of the contents of the book I'm writing.
It’s a Book!
In which I announce that I'm going to write a book. Read more (3 min, 700 words).
7 Hang-ups To Hang Up On
I discuss the seven facets of perfectionism I need to get under control if I want to become a more productive writer. Read more (12 min, 3000 words).
Looking Back on ’21 and Forward to the Rest
I sum up last year, look back on six years of blogging, and decide that it's probably time for some crisis and change. But how, and what? Read more (11 min, 2800 words.)
The Importance of Being a Slog
Why are supposedly serious and profound fiction often difficult and boring to read? Is there a necessary connection between the two? I argue yes, a bit, but it's hard to tell when the connection is illusory and fake.
Read more (23 min, 5700 words).
A Hundred for the 100th
To celebrate my 100th post, I wrote 100 haikus as summaries of each post so far. Read more (8 min, 2000 words).
Hindsight in 2020
I sum up 2020 and digress a little about writing, creativity and how things become part of the past. Read more (14 min, 3500 words).
Notes on Notes
A tale on the nature of footnotes, writing in general, and other things, told almost entirely in footnotes. Read more (18 min, 5500 words).
Leftovers from Last Time
I pick up and elaborate on some parts that were cut from my review of "The AI Does Not Hate You", including some riffing on mind dumps, weirdness, tensions between the rationalist community and polite society, my conservatism-free youth, the conservatism of Star Trek and my hopes for AI stagnation.
Read more (17 min, 4300 words).