Aether Mug

Marco Giancotti

Culture

Hello! I write on Aether Mug, a weekly blog about a great number of things, like science, philosophy, design, psychology, and Japan—or rather, not about *any* of them in particular, but about the things that connect them all.

https://aethermug.com/

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• AeMug Chat #1 / Aether Mug Evolves 2026-02-25 06:38pm
• I Witnessed the Birth of a Tiny World 2026-02-18 08:21pm
• Culture Is the Mass-Synchronization of Framings 2026-02-11 08:26pm
• Year Two 2026-02-05 12:21am
• Never Slide Out of the Day 2026-01-29 03:52am
• Darwin El Naturalista 2026-01-22 12:10am
• Darwin the Witness 2026-01-07 11:24pm
• Darwin the Man of His Times 2026-01-01 03:21am
• Darwin the Voyager 2025-12-25 12:00am
• Darwin the Fun-Loving Young Fellow 2025-12-17 08:39pm
• Cow Ontologies 2025-12-10 05:52pm
• Purpose Essay Now on Plankton Valhalla 2025-12-03 09:37pm
• My Notes on: When Ants Are Smarter Than People 2025-11-26 09:09pm
• Roam 2025-11-19 05:57pm
• Linear Algebra Explains Why Some Words Are Effectively Untranslatable 2025-11-12 10:54pm
• Steinbeck on Teleology 2025-11-05 07:08pm
• Process World, Object-Oriented Mind 2025-10-29 09:47pm
• 26 Easy Steps to Taming Your Smartphone Addiction 2025-10-21 05:38pm
• Visualizing Framings 2025-10-16 10:42pm
• Strive as It Might 2025-10-07 06:53pm
• Shake Up Your Boundaries 2025-10-01 10:47pm
• What's the Deal With Counterfeit People? 2025-09-23 05:58pm
• Hi No Youjin 2025-09-16 10:23pm
• Claude Sonnet Is Teaching Me English 2025-09-02 06:16pm
• There Is Thinking and There Is Thinking and There Is Thinking 2025-08-27 04:59pm
• Famous Cognitive Psychology Experiments that Failed to Replicate 2025-08-20 06:12pm
• I Used to Know How to Write in Japanese 2025-08-14 05:22pm
• Do You Remember What You Read? 2025-08-06 05:42pm
• A Pocket-Size Checklist of Thinking Errors 2025-07-30 08:04pm
• New article on Nautilus Magazine 2025-07-22 05:47pm
• Is It Bad to Have a Parrot Speak for You? 2025-07-16 07:31pm
• Human Stigmergy 2025-07-09 06:18pm
• How to Organize Your Thoughts with a Simple Bullet List 2025-07-02 09:04pm
• Water Lilies, Water Lilies Everywhere 2025-06-26 09:26pm
• Are We Losing Control? 2025-06-18 05:17pm
• I Like the Sound of How You Look at Me 2025-06-10 06:00pm
• I Do Not Remember My Life and It's Fine 2025-06-04 07:50pm
• I'll Take a Short Blogging Break 2025-05-14 05:08pm
• Determinate Self-Sabotage, or Obsessive Connoisseurship? 2025-05-07 08:18pm
• Replaced 2025-04-30 06:59pm
• Meditations on the Color of Pee 2025-04-22 06:19pm
• What if Gratitude Was Built Into the Grammar? 2025-04-16 08:23pm
• Case Study: Is There a Strange Culture War Over AI Art? 2025-04-09 11:57pm
• Breathing Through Your Belly Button 2025-04-02 05:13pm
• Vibe Check UX 2025-03-28 02:41am
• An Aphantasic's Observations on the Imagination of Shapes 2025-03-19 07:00pm
• Interview on People and Blogs 2025-03-11 04:51pm
• Living in a Real World, Acting in Imaginary Ones 2025-03-05 10:50pm
• Matsuri's Grown-Up World 2025-02-26 06:05pm
• Rationality Fails at the Edge 2025-02-19 09:53pm
• Whatever a Man or Woman Was Able to Accomplish Before, You Can Accomplish, Too 2025-02-12 11:18pm
• Year One 2025-02-05 09:32pm
• We Need a Sense of Systemic Perspective 2025-01-26 04:15pm
• Primitive Atlas of Glass Circuits 2025-01-23 01:35am
• The Luxurious Pain of Using My Time 2025-01-08 11:31pm
• A Kanji Always Pays Her Debts 2024-12-10 02:52am
• See the Living Loops 2024-12-05 10:16pm
• My Head as a Lake 2024-11-28 03:54pm
• A Framing and Model About Framings and Models 2024-11-20 10:21pm
• Presenting Visual Koans 2024-11-14 12:40am
• Ten Books That Transformed Me 2024-11-07 02:31am
• New Plankton Valhalla Essay! 2024-10-30 07:55pm
• Normality and Surprise in an Image-Free Mind 2024-10-24 02:52am
• Ballistic Moments of Weightlessness 2024-10-17 01:33am
• Reading Blood Meridian with Aphantasia 2024-10-11 02:30am
• Philosophy Is the Battle Against the Bad Framing Kraken 2024-10-03 04:25am
• A List of Introspective Descriptions 2024-09-25 06:47pm
• The Odysseus Black Box 2024-09-20 02:56am
• Close Reading of a Modern Japanese Vignette 2024-09-11 11:08pm
• You Don't Have Time to Read Books That Won't Change Your Life 2024-09-05 03:46am
• Boxed 2024-08-28 09:26pm
• Blimp Blues 2024-08-21 11:25pm
• A Black-Box View of Life 2024-08-15 01:41am
• In Japanese You Need a Dictionary to Count Things 2024-08-07 10:26pm
• New Aphantasia Article on Nautilus 2024-07-31 11:51pm
• Seamanship of Life 2024-07-23 07:47pm
• Blowing Against the Fog of War 2024-07-18 02:57am
• Jack of All Trades, Master of Something 2024-07-03 09:49pm
• Aphantasia Is No Creativity-Killer 2024-06-27 03:15am
• POSIWID 2024-06-19 07:50pm
• "Bad" Framings 2024-06-13 01:08am
• Borges on Chaos Theory 2024-06-06 12:59am
• Human Language Is Not a Network 2024-05-28 11:04pm
• Is There Anything Untranslatable? 2024-05-24 03:36am
• Hills Not Walls 2024-05-16 12:52am
• They Made Us 2024-05-09 03:11am
• A Medium-Agnostic Taxonomy of Notifications 2024-05-03 10:26pm
• Language is a Bottleneck for Thought 2024-04-25 05:27am
• The Beautiful Dissociation of the Japanese Language 2024-04-20 03:27am
• You Impersonate What You Think You Are 2024-04-10 10:36pm
• A Fundamental Framing of Human Language 2024-04-04 03:02am
• Don't Think and Write, They Say 2024-03-28 12:46am
• Aphantasia 2024-03-14 11:20pm
• A Framing Is a Choice of Boundaries 2024-03-14 02:51am
• Software Projects Will Be Late 2024-02-29 01:03am
• Internal Model Translation Table 2024-02-20 07:27pm
• Conversational Humor Is Funny Only After You've Seen It Click 2024-02-15 12:00am
• Embedded Prophesy Devices 2024-02-07 09:59pm
• Designing for Emergence 2024-02-01 02:31am