Presenting Visual Koans
An experiment in mind wandering
Ten Books That Transformed Me
Some non-recommendations of Damned Good Books, with due apologies
New Plankton Valhalla Essay!
A meta-cross-post
Normality and Surprise in an Image-Free Mind
On discovering aphantasia and talking about it
Ballistic Moments of Weightlessness
On purpose and its temporary suspension
Reading Blood Meridian with Aphantasia
What it feels like
A List of Introspective Descriptions
Please contribute your own!
Philosophy Is the Battle Against the Bad Framing Kraken
In the hallowed Aether Mug tradition of strained metaphors
The Odysseus Black Box
Curiosity as the drive to be changed by the world
Close Reading of a Modern Japanese Vignette
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
On some Damned Good Books
Boxed
Things I learned after lying in an MRI machine for 30 hours
Blimp Blues
I mean, don't you want it too?
A Black-Box View of Life
We are meant to tinker.
In Japanese You Need a Dictionary to Count Things
On Josuushi and questionable language approaches
New Aphantasia Article on Nautilus
Rotating things without seeing the things.
Seamanship of Life
Aye, pass that razor hither, me hearty!
Blowing Against the Fog of War
A little about Plankton Valhalla and Aether Mug.
Jack of All Trades, Master of Something
Generalism is a specialization.
Aphantasia Is No Creativity-Killer
I turned my back to art, then turned again.
POSIWID
A mosaic.
"Bad" Framings
And how to spot them.
Borges on Chaos Theory
About a weird, lovely short story.
Human Language Is Not a Network
A visual explanation.
Is There Anything Untranslatable?
Words do mean things, but not only.
Hills Not Walls
The choice of our metaphors matters.
They Made Us
Natural selection is the opposite of what it sounds.
A Medium-Agnostic Taxonomy of Notifications
Or, I Went a Bit Too Far Fantasizing About the Ideal Notification UX
Language is a Bottleneck for Thought
The definitive case in favor of headjacks?
The Beautiful Dissociation of the Japanese Language
An extra dimension that you can play with.
You Impersonate What You Think You Are
Can you do me a favor?
A Fundamental Framing of Human Language
The very use of words implies a certain way to segment the world.
Don't Think and Write, They Say
Online writing beyond bowel movements.
Aphantasia
A subjective description of the experience.
A Framing Is a Choice of Boundaries
One way or another, you've gotta chop it up.
Software Projects Will Be Late
Blame the thickets and the paradoxes.
Internal Model Translation Table
There's something for every occasion!
Conversational Humor Is Funny Only After You've Seen It Click
Most funny interactions betray the usual categories and seem to be evolutionary or emergent.
Embedded Prophesy Devices
Without a vast, detailed replica of the world encoded as models inside your body, you wouldn't survive one day.
Designing for Emergence
"If we are ever to advance beyond simple computational artefacts, we need a science of emergence"