The "increment by 30 seconds and then start" microwave button is one of the all-time great human inventions

28 January 2026

Subtractive, indirect, immediate

24 August 2025

Fun mostly happens at the second-by-second level

17 May 2025

Before the LLM there was the vulgus-book

14 May 2025

E. M. Forster on shoggoths

25 February 2025

Interesting bits from The Discarded Image

19 January 2025

2024 review

19 January 2025

"There are not going to be many more dinosaurs"

11 January 2025

Minimum viable music

26 November 2024

A week of minimal internet

26 November 2024

Three pass writing

4 August 2024 writing

Snarking at Rousseau again

16 July 2024

Variable names as handles or sigils

3 February 2024

2023 review

6 January 2024

Foot massage roller as expansion cue

9 August 2023

rectangles bad

19 July 2023

Haugeland on digitality

18 May 2023

Their arch of promise the wide Heaviside layer

15 May 2023 empson, brian-cantwell-smith, pairwise

Great big examples

24 April 2023

Speedrun: Coleridge

10 April 2023 speedrun

Piecing together scraps of causal inference intuition

13 March 2023

Thoughts on "Better without AI"

22 February 2023

Music theory yak shaving

16 February 2023

Swallows and Amazons and objects

2 February 2023

2022 review

31 December 2022

Différance in neural nets

17 December 2022 derrida

Notes on (some of) Braitenberg's 'Vehicles'

17 October 2022

Meditation thoughts

9 October 2022

CLIs vs GUIs

11 September 2022

Dinosaur man altruism

6 September 2022

A year of notebucketing

13 August 2022

Signature Event Context notes

7 August 2022 derrida

Broaching and breaching

23 July 2022 derrida, brian-cantwell-smith

Being a node in the Global Computer

8 July 2022

A fragment on separating style from content

5 July 2022

Half-finished notes on Derrida and time-consciousness

5 July 2022 derrida

Origin of Geometry notes - 2

19 June 2022 husserl

Origin of Geometry notes

3 June 2022 husserl, derrida

Yep I'm still banging on about Derrida

24 April 2022 derrida

Cognitive reflection again

14 April 2022

Back facing outwards

11 April 2022

Memory miscellany

19 March 2022

Voice and Phenomenon notes

7 March 2022 derrida

Some things about Husserl that I would like to remember for longer than ten seconds at a time

9 February 2022 husserl

Background textures of work

5 February 2022

Productisation

19 January 2022

Empson on 'Missing Dates'

9 January 2022 empson

Books I read in 2021

29 December 2021

I ♥ universities

19 December 2021

Image streaming

16 December 2021

Stabilisation

4 December 2021

2021 almost-end-of-year review

4 December 2021

Counting on fingers, toes and yams

24 November 2021

The Philosophy of Arithmetic - 2

20 November 2021 husserl

The Philosophy of Arithmetic - 1

13 November 2021 husserl

William Warburton

10 November 2021 derrida

Life-changing magic

7 November 2021 kondo

This notebook is probably for real time discovery

5 November 2021

Habit propagation

5 November 2021

Always Already Programming

5 November 2021

28/10/2021 6:39 AM

28 October 2021

Husserl and the Search for Certitude - 3

23 October 2021 husserl, derrida

Husserl and the Search for Certitude - 2

22 October 2021 husserl

Husserl and the Search for Certitude

21 October 2021 husserl

Visualising legal fictions

15 October 2021 empson

Derrida on signatures

14 October 2021 derrida

Visual programming and mushiness

14 October 2021

Algebra is generous

13 October 2021

Dutilh Novaes on Maxwell's equations

11 October 2021

Marie Kondo for rectangles

22 September 2021 kondo

Writing and indexicality or something like that

11 September 2021 writing

Books Are Fake And Don't Work

11 September 2021 pairwise, writing

Différance and the middle distance

7 September 2021 derrida, pairwise, brian-cantwell-smith

Husserl on the number twelve specifically

3 September 2021 husserl

Frege and Husserl on numbers

2 September 2021 husserl

Grumbling about twitter

30 August 2021

Lack of narrative meaning

30 August 2021 kondo, empson

Kill Math, or maybe Don't Kill Math

23 August 2021 maths

Speech and Phenomena notes 4: Repeatability

22 August 2021 derrida

Speech and Phenomena notes 3: more on the inner monologue

21 August 2021 derrida

Why do I care about Derrida?

17 August 2021 derrida

Speech and Phenomena notes 2: hearing yourself speak

17 August 2021 derrida

Speech and Phenomena notes 1: indication and expression

16 August 2021 derrida

Consistency paralysis

14 August 2021 empson

"second brain should be a mess imo, like first brain"

13 August 2021