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Six months into AI-assisted work, the biggest gains come from broad context, cross-domain reasoning, and feedback systems that help agents converge.
Erik Davis: It's a challenging time for writers, not just economically, but motivationally. I've been writing about media, music, theory, drugs, spirituality, and technoculture for forty years now. I don't know what it means to do this...
Measuring web performance without lying to yourself.
I know some of you will complain that this site is amateurish and doesn’t use IPA, but I don’t care — I’m a sucker for these things (North Carolina, Colorado, Wyoming, UK), and I can’t resist passing them along. So herewith please find...
I realised I hadn’t seen LA GRANDE ILLUSION since I was about 19 — so, almost forty years ago. That’s silly, I thought, so I watched it. Now I may need to watch it quite a bit more often. I knew Richard Lester admired it and used a...
A quarterly update to my Now page is in. For more like it, check out Derek Sivers’ nownownow.com.
It’s been 33 years since my childhood trip to Japan and next month, I’m going back! My friends and their family are currently on a four month exchange in Sapporo so I’m going to stay with them before they head back to Canada. That...
by Nathaniel R THE KING'S WARDEN won three prizes and is a huge hit in South Korea. You might remember last year that we discussed that South Korea has a robust film awards calendar, with the first awards show of each year in May! I'm...
At Shrewsbury library Doomscrolling, late 1800s style The father of evolution, Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury on 12th February 1809 at Mount House. Before attending Edinburgh and Cambridge University and sailing on the HMS Beagle,...
I don’t like writing prompts. Prompts are common in online fiction writing advice. You can buy analog writing prompt kits. Writing workshops and workbooks often use exercises (essentially prompts) to help develop skills. I bounce off of...