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The secret architecture of great essays
Nov 28, 2023
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Substack or Bust
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Microcosm
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The First Online Writer
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(In)efficiency (Dean's List #4)
The eclipse is underrated, my new "albums," dictionary binging, essay mapping, architecture school, and alchemy.
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Abolish Leap Year! (by 2035)
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Help, my head is made of language!
Musings on my 2 year logiversary
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Lucy in the Sky of Large Language Models
How infinite music breeds a culture of Beatle-heads
Nov 2, 2023
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Prepping for the Editor G*ds
Timeless principles for the weird future of AI writing
Oct 19, 2023
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The First Online Writer
Lessons from Justin Hall on rendering your unfiltered consciousness into hypertext
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17-year cycles
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robots, hucksters & slang-parrots
the forces that poison the million word KOON-SUL-ROMAN
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sungazer
specifics on where & how to look at the sun without going blind
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4-part punctuation
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the big trip
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Microcosm
Grokking the world through volcanoes and lobsters
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THESIS (Chapter 1?!)
The hidden center that brings order to chaos.
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(In)efficiency (Dean's List #4)
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A change of heart (Dean's List #3)
Apple's VR headset changed my stance on technology so severely that I’m no longer using clocks
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Hephaestus (Dean's List #2)
The unknown, underrated God of Craft
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