you can look it up
The idea for this post came up mid-conversation with @neuranne when I was telling her about how inspired I was by an audio ess
discourse cycles
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journalling
I am always recommending to people that they ought to journal. Keep a diary, write your memoirs, it doesn’t really preci
attention metrics
I usually bring up this thread/idea when talking with people about things like optimizing for views or follower counts. The th
language (orwell, russell)
Aug2023: This threadpost will likely eventually become part of a substack essay I’ve been stewing on titled “In ot
joke about outcomes you want
one of my riffs on Twitter that’s taken off and embedded in other people’s minds is the idea of “joke about
psychofauna
@BenRatkaj said he wanted a psychofauna bestiary. Etienne Preamble to a Psychofauna Bestiary Khalil Durkheim on the Nature of
words of power
Original thread here. I loved reading, all my life. Books gave me an interiority; entire multiverses within myself that no aut
write your memoirs
(2024nov update/comment: while doing some recategorizing, it struck me that this post fit in almost every single category I ha
ayy lmao
a lot of paradoxes might be best resolved with a sense of humor. (eg: dicking around can be productive, but if you’re an
comms is lossy
It’s amazing that any of us are able to understand each other at all. Communication is lossy. (“Lossy” is a
oblique approaches can achieve what directness cannot
Tell all the truth but tell it slant —Success in Circuit liesToo bright for our infirm DelightThe Truth’s superb surpr
memed into existence
This page is a collection of instances of the phrase “memed into existence”. I’m collecting them out of nerd
🎨 everything is a remix
Everything Is A Remix [37:30] is a video by Kirby Ferguson. It’s one of the most powerful videos I’ve ever watched
🗽iconography
I think about iconography a lot, I have multiple twitter threads about them. I’ll eventually expand this into a blogpost
aesthetics
A loose set of notes about aesthetics. What are aesthetics? Why don’t you just say beautiful, or pretty? Why use this
talking points
This is a slightly edited repost of a twitter thread I once did at 520am in the morning to try and recap all of the things I t
word magic
— 1 — I have always been very passionate about words. As I said in the library ethos, I grew up reading books and have str
magic junkyard
just doing the thing where I coin a phrase and then track how it spreads “We’ve been called everything from”
🗣 talking to people makes you a better writer
A friend asked me for some advice on a massive writing project that he’s had on the backburner for a while now. It sound
🤓 ‘Smart Writing’ is about cultivating taste, suspending judgement and chasing your curiosity
I saw someone tweet “I wish smart writing came to me as easily as dumb tweeting” — and so I am here to share my strategy
Politics and the English language [2016]
The following is my attempt to update George Orwell’s essay Politics and the English Language [1946] for modern reading.
☕️ Is Ya Kun Kaya Toast “Authentic”?
Originally posted on Poached Mag. I was having kopi with some friends at Ya Kun Kaya Toast. A friendly auntie spoke to us in c