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This Blog Considered as a Cabinet of Curiosities
Why Do I Feel Inadequate at Coming Up With Research Ideas?
The Overfit Theory of Everything
All Slopes Are Slippery, Also None of Them Are Actually Slopes
Adventures in Finetuning Stable Diffusion
Infinitely Many New Pages from the Mexican Codex Borgia
Our Intuitions About Non-Existence Are Pretty Terrible
Behind the Scenes of ‘Write 100 Posts’
Portrait of the Blogger in a Tangle of Links of His Own Making
The Total Value of Art Stays Constant Over Time
On (Not) Writing About Politics Online
Things Always Seem to Get Worse, Always Have, Always Will
One Technology to Rule Them All
How to Slow Down Progress (According to Fiction)
Aesthetics as Epistemic Humility
Common Tech Jobs Described as Cabals of Mesoamerican Wizards
Hieroglyphic Notes on the Most Important Century, Etched Into the Stone of a Long-Sealed Tomb
Breakup Letter to a Once Beloved Project
The Industrial Revolution That Almost Was
The Case Against Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Education
A Visit to the Idea Machine Fair
We Can Do Better Than Miracles
Retrofuturism Is Futurism Done Well
The Two Most Tragic Moments in History
The Secret of Happiness Is That There Are Three Kinds
Do Not Befriend the Problem—Slay It
The Difference Between Science and the Humanities Is Reading the Classics
Five Propositions on the Future of Art
A General Philosophy of Being Dazzlingly Alive
Book Review: ‘The Sense of Style’
‘The Power of Myth’: A Book Review
Progress Positivity in the ‘Civilization’ Games
Awareness Is the Secret Sauce of Everything Good
Bad Attempts at Simplification Rule Everything Around Me