Tag: writing
Questions and An Answer
Questions about life and the search for an answer.
What is writing?
Appreciate where you are. You may be luckier than you think.
A comic especially for fellow writers and illustrators out there.
The Notebook
Not that The Notebook, but The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper, a book about notebooks, how they evolved, and how they are used today. I found the concept of James Pennebaker's "expressive writing" particularly interesting. The Notebook also served to remind me that notebooks are so much more than diaries or journals, they...
The Most Sloppy
A comprehensive, holistic, actionable, future-ready framework for unlocking AI-powered synergies across people, process, platform, purpose, provenance, possibility, and the rapidly evolving landscape.
Moving My Blog to The Atmosphere aka AT Proto
Blogging used to be fun. Then it became energy-consuming. AT Proto brings the best part of the past and, hopefully, will renew my blogging.
Starting Over
Something shifted; now my computer should be a tool. I'm trying The Artist's Way.
Rebecca Solnit’s sentences are archipelagos of thought. You …
Rebecca Solnit’s sentences are archipelagos of thought. You step onto one clause and find another small island appearing just beyond it: a memory, a road, an old map, a story someone told her, a political fact that refuses to stay merely political. The sentence does not hurry you to its conclusion. It gives you somewhere...
500 Words and the Fediverse
#oneaday Day 767: Why I continue to write in an age of AI
I read a good piece earlier that got me thinking: why do I continue to tap out words here, day after day, in an age where those odious "Generate with AI" buttons are ubiquitous, whether you want them or not? (Even here in my own self-hosted version of WordPress, I cannot escape the "Improve with...
The brain is a meaning-making machine. It’s constantly …
The brain is a meaning-making machine. It's constantly trying to connect dots, predict what happens next, and turn scattered information into a coherent shape. When everything is already explained, the pattern is complete. The brain can relax or get bored. But when there is uncertainty like a missing piece, an unanswered question, a strange detail,...
Accidentally rediscovered the cure for writer's block
Journaling in the age of Articlemaxxing
Or How I miss the innocent days of Livejournal.. When did writing online become driven by farming success course-slop? Why does everyone want to help me grow, so long as I sign up to an online program or join a paid membership tier? Why does Substack's notes feed look and read with exactly the same level of engagement farming as Crypto Twitter did during the NFT and meme coin heydays?
To My Readers: What Do You Want To See More Of?
I finally curated my blog posts into collections, revealing what I write about most: the IndieWeb, the craft of writing, community, technical tutorials, politics, culture, and more. A call to my readers to tell me what they want to see more of, and a reflection on how organizing my work helps me understand my own writing patterns and what I want to write more of.
There Are People Who Would Give Anything For Your Ability to Read and Write
In our current year, there is a global literacy crisis. As a result, there's a privilege in being able to read and write. Notes on Frederick Douglass, the problems you don't think about, and why the ability to write is something to be grateful for and use rather than take for granted.
I keep thinking about the idea of writing …
I keep thinking about the idea of writing an ebook that doesn't perpetuate the expectation that a book needs to be read in a straight line. I know this isn't a new idea; that's what the hypertext movement was all about. But the idea of doing this resurfaced for me again this morning while reading...
Shake Off the Dust!
Completing #100DaysToOffload twice in under two years, and somewhere along the way the wet clay hardened at the edges. Invisible ruts form inside the habits you love, and there's a difference between a window and a mirror in writing. The hermit crab outgrows shells, including the ones that still fit fine.
Rage bait, stop feeding the trolls
About the World- The Maha
Wonders of Webweaving Podcast Ep. #8: Brennan
I was a guest on Episode 8 of Wonders of Web Weaving with James G. We talk about writing routines, building community in the indie web, 'start here' pages, Maple Syrup Heists, and more!
letta-writer
Memory repository for a Letta Code writing and document agent.
Collabs for July '26
group promos in July
#oneaday Day 751: Read/write access
There are a lot of things I don't like about myself, but one of the things that I have always been rather pleased with is my willingness to engage with the English language. A lot of this stems from being encouraged well at an early age, both by my parents and at school, but also...