🛰 The Mapmaking Machine Species
This month is shaping up to be a watershed moment in over 80 years of UFO investigations. For reasons unknown to serfs like me, it seems like Congress may have forced the Pentagon to show it's hand. Who knows why, but a declassified report on UAP's
፨ The Social Graph
Social media has no shortage of scapegoats: The business model, the fame junkies, the addiction fueled habit loops, the human traits of greed and narcissism, Elon Musk. After debating a friend, he landed on the sentiment that "social media is inherently screwed." I have a more hopeful outlook,
🥩 Hunter's Breakfast Myth
Last weekend my wife and I found ourselves staying at a bed and breakfast on Greenwood Lake. When she told me she loved breakfast, I told her "no, THIS guy loves breakfast." I pulled up the radical Hunter S. Thompson quote and read it to her as we
⏳ Beeple's Mosaic
Beeple’s “Everydays” NFT sold for $69 million. The fact that it’s an NFT is the least exciting part about it. This essay is about Beeple’s process. Your craft dramatically evolves when you commit to a daily process. Time is your muse.
🍳 The Daily Meeze
Writers can learn from cooks. Chef's store ingredients, work among chaos, and reset their workspace at the end of the day. We can adopt their rituals and mindfulness so the information we need is always at our fingertips.
📬 Kill Instapaper
Read-later apps let us save articles for the future. The problem is, we never get to them. Thousands of articles build up in our inbox, and they rot there forever. Here’s a better way to re-route your unread articles.
📞 If You Melt a Telephone
Let’s understand Bitcoin in the context of communication technologies. The telephone was the first in a line of inventions that trended towards “co-presence.” Bitcoin is the first technology in a future line of inventions that will trend towards democracy.
🔗 Hyperlink Frenzy
There's a new myth that hyperlinking all your private notes together leads to creativity. I disagree. I’ve made this mistake before. It comes from an obsession with categorizing our inputs. Instead, focus on outputs.
⚛️ The Writer's Stack
It’s becoming popular to use dozens of productivity apps and link them all together using automations. Another approach: an all-in-one workspace like Notion. It provides all the functionality a writer needs.
🤑 Surreal News in January 2021
The year of 2021 got off to a strange start: Revolutions, conspiracies, financial absurdity, and another wave of COVID. Delirium afoot. Here’s a collage of all the strange news that came out during this time.