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Year One
6 Feb 2025 | original ↗

On trying to be "The Invisible Elephant Guy" after one year of Aether Mug

We Need a Sense of Systemic Perspective
27 Jan 2025 | original ↗

The farther away a situation is from us socially, like a different industry or culture or community, the more puzzling and irrational and crazy—and sometimes evil—it looks. We're dismayed at how people drive in other countries, or at how some of the commonplace behaviors over there are so rude, or how ruthless the colleagues in Sales are, and so...

Primitive Atlas of Glass Circuits
23 Jan 2025 | original ↗

Aren't we all air converters?

The Luxurious Pain of Using My Time
9 Jan 2025 | original ↗

Possibly just me coming out as a lucky optimist

A Kanji Always Pays Her Debts
10 Dec 2024 | original ↗

In defense of steep learning curve

See the Living Loops
6 Dec 2024 | original ↗

Some control comes for free

My Head as a Lake
28 Nov 2024 | original ↗

Thinking about aphantasia since long before aphantasia was a thing

A Framing and Model About Framings and Models
21 Nov 2024 | original ↗

Some basic metacognition tools

Presenting Visual Koans
14 Nov 2024 | original ↗

An experiment in mind wandering

Ten Books that Transformed Me
7 Nov 2024 | original ↗

Some non-recommendations of Damned Good Books, with due apologies

New Plankton Valhalla Essay!
31 Oct 2024 | original ↗

A meta-cross-post

Normality and Surprise in an Image-Free Mind
24 Oct 2024 | original ↗

On discovering aphantasia and talking about it

Ballistic Moments of Weightlessness
17 Oct 2024 | original ↗

On purpose and its temporary suspension

Reading Blood Meridian with Aphantasia
11 Oct 2024 | original ↗

What it feels like

Philosophy Is the Battle Against the Bad Framing Kraken
2 Oct 2024 | original ↗

In the hallowed Aether Mug tradition of strained metaphors

A List of Introspective Descriptions
26 Sept 2024 | original ↗

Please contribute your own descriptions!

The Odysseus Black Box
20 Sept 2024 | original ↗

Curiosity as the drive to be changed by the world

Close Reading of a Modern Japanese Vignette
12 Sept 2024 | original ↗

Things you can see by looking over a local's shoulder.

You Don't Have Time to Read Books That Won't Change Your Life
5 Sept 2024 | original ↗

On some Damned Good Books

Boxed
29 Aug 2024 | original ↗

Things I learned after lying in an MRI machine for 30 hours

Blimp Blues
22 Aug 2024 | original ↗

I mean, don't you want it too?

A Black-Box View of Life
15 Aug 2024 | original ↗

We are meant to tinker.

In Japanese You Need a Dictionary to Count Things
8 Aug 2024 | original ↗

On Josuushi and questionable language approaches

New Aphantasia Article on Nautilus
1 Aug 2024 | original ↗

Rotating things without seeing the things.

Seamanship of Life
24 Jul 2024 | original ↗

Aye, pass that razor hither, me hearty!

Blowing Against the Fog of War
18 Jul 2024 | original ↗

A little about Plankton Valhalla and Aether Mug.

Jack of All Trades, Master of Something
4 Jul 2024 | original ↗

Generalism is a specialization.

Aphantasia Is No Creativity-Killer
27 Jun 2024 | original ↗

I turned my back to art, then turned again.

POSIWID
20 Jun 2024 | original ↗

A mosaic.

"Bad" Framings
13 Jun 2024 | original ↗

And how to spot them.

Borges on Chaos Theory
6 Jun 2024 | original ↗

About a weird, lovely short story.

Human Language Is Not a Network
29 May 2024 | original ↗

A visual explanation.

Is There Anything Untranslatable?
24 May 2024 | original ↗

Words do mean things, but not only.

Hills Not Walls
16 May 2024 | original ↗

The choice of our metaphors matters.

They Made Us
9 May 2024 | original ↗

Natural selection is the opposite of what it sounds.

A Medium-Agnostic Taxonomy of Notifications
4 May 2024 | original ↗

Or, I Went a Bit Too Far Fantasizing About the Ideal Notification UX

Language is a Bottleneck for Thought
25 Apr 2024 | original ↗

The definitive case in favor of headjacks?

The Beautiful Dissociation of the Japanese Language
20 Apr 2024 | original ↗

An extra dimension that you can play with.

You Impersonate What You Think You Are
11 Apr 2024 | original ↗

Can you do me a favor?

A Fundamental Framing of Human Language
4 Apr 2024 | original ↗

The very use of words implies a certain way to segment the world.

Don't Think and Write, They Say
28 Mar 2024 | original ↗

Online writing beyond bowel movements.

Aphantasia
15 Mar 2024 | original ↗

A subjective description of the experience.

A Framing Is a Choice of Boundaries
14 Mar 2024 | original ↗

One way or another, you've gotta chop it up.

Software Projects Will Be Late
29 Feb 2024 | original ↗

Blame the thickets and the paradoxes.

Internal Model Translation Table
21 Feb 2024 | original ↗

There's something for every occasion!

Conversational Humor Is Funny Only After You've Seen It Click
15 Feb 2024 | original ↗

Most funny interactions betray the usual categories and seem to be evolutionary or emergent.

Embedded Prophesy Devices
8 Feb 2024 | original ↗

Without a vast, detailed replica of the world encoded as models inside your body, you wouldn't survive one day.

Designing for Emergence
1 Feb 2024 | original ↗

"If we are ever to advance beyond simple computational artefacts, we need a science of emergence"

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