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• Why you must create
  posts2026-08-12·creativityGK Chesterton
  A good reminder from The Culturist to spend more time creating new things than consuming from others. Nowadays, it is frighteningly easy to spend the best part of a day consuming the creations of…
• Musicmagic — Return to Forever
  albums2026-08-12·Return to Forever
• Where Have I Known You Before — Return to Forever
  albums2026-08-12·Return to Forever
• First Blood
  films2026-08-08·Ted Kotcheff
• Sneakers
  films2026-08-07·Phil Alden Robinson
  Like Ocean’s Eleven for hackers: a crew of highly competent, likable guys combining unique talents to pull off a job, with plenty of comedy beats in the mix. Robert Redford and Sidney Poitier bring…
• Avengers: Infinity War
  films2026-08-03·Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
  Everett, currently 8, has only watched a couple of the Marvel movies. He finally sat down to watch this one (my favorite of the Avengers bunch) while we were on the Disney Destiny cruise. He loved it…
• Orson Welles on Citizen Kane
  micro2026-07-31·Orson Wellescreativityinterviewfilm
  Orson Welles discusses making Citizen Kane at age 25. I love his comments in deference to his cinematographer on Kane , Gregg Toland. He credits him with giving him the confidence to create from his…
• Closed loops and AI
  posts2026-07-31·AIsoftware
  Just read this take from Elad Gil: AI will eat closed loops first AI will first automate away the things that are easier to form a closed loop learning system on. This is why code and AI research may…
• Citizen Kane
  films2026-07-29·Orson Welles
  Is this the first “modern” film? The staging, lighting, camera movement, nonlinear narrative, extended takes, makeup, tricks of sound, pacing — there's not an attribute Welles didn't push the limits…
• Tenet
  films2026-07-29·Christopher Nolan
  There's this rarely used style of cinema where you're meant to experience a film rather than follow its narrative. Where the enjoyment comes from soaking in its aura rather than "getting it" or tying…
• The Seventh Seal
  films2026-07-28·Ingmar Bergman
• Dune Messiah
  books2026-07-27·Frank Herbert
• Harari vs. Henrich
  posts2026-07-09·evolutionanthropologyhuman natureintelligencelanguage
  An interesting piece from Joseph Heath that compares the opposed theories on the origins of human intelligence posited by Yuval Noah Harari and Joseph Henrich: What makes the field of human…
• Let them explore
  posts2026-06-26·childrenparenting
  Kids don’t need their every moment curated. They need space to explore and follow their curiosity, unguided by parents.
• Tyrell's Owl
  micro2026-06-26·Blade Runnercinematographyfilmcyberpunk
  Tyrell's owl . Blade Runner , 1982.
• The Master and His Emissary
  books2026-06-24·Iain McGilchrist
• The Odyssey
  books2026-06-17·Homer
• In the Garden of Beasts
  books2026-05-31·Erik Larson
• Hamlet
  books2026-05-28·William Shakespeare
• Where Good Ideas Come From
  books2026-05-25·Steven Johnson
• The Rise of Endymion
  books2026-05-23·Dan Simmons
• Endymion
  books2026-05-22·Dan Simmons
• What Makes Art Great?
  posts2026-05-15·artliteraturemusicAIculture
  Nabeel Qureshi breaks down the aspects of great art that make it unique.
• The Complete Essays of Montaigne
  books2026-05-15·Michel de Montaigne
• Principles
  micro2026-05-11·GK Chestertonquotesprinciples
  Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.
• That Hideous Strength
  books2026-05-11·C. S. Lewis
• After Humanity
  books2026-05-05·Michael Ward
• Surface, an Obsidian plugin for Readwise
  posts2026-04-27·obsidiannote-takingreadingbookswriting
  An Obsidian plugin that pulls relevant Readwise highlights into your sidebar as you write, turning your reading library into live writing context.
• 2010: Odyssey Two
  micro2026-04-16·booksartArthur C. ClarkeMichael Whelanscience fiction
  Michael Whelan's inspiring cover art for Arthur C. Clarke's 2010: Odyssey Two .
• Brian and Thomas Owens sing Sam Cooke
  micro2026-04-15·musicBrian OwenssoulSam Cooke
  Father/son duo Brian Owens and Thomas Owens , Sam Cooke's " A Change is Gonna Come ." What a phenomenal duet.
• Taking Religion Seriously
  books2026-04-13·Charles Murray
• The Soul of the World
  books2026-04-11·Roger Scruton
• The Golden Thread, Vol. I
  books2026-03-17·Allen Guelzo and James Hankins
• C.S. Lewis's tips for writing
  micro2026-03-07·writingC.S. Lewis
  C.S. Lewis's tips for becoming a better writer. How quaint to think of a time when the radio was the only external stimulus.
• 10M
  micro2026-03-04·artculture
  Search an archive of artworks by mood, feeling, style, or similarity.
• Anathem
  books2026-03-04·Neal Stephenson
• Vin Varma's notetaking system
  micro2026-03-03·note-takingthinkingVin VarmaGreg Isenberg
  Vin Varma's thoughtful notes on his note taking process. As my understanding deepens, it naturally precipitates into action. Projects start to emerge at various scales. The form follows the…
• Flexport Atlas
  micro2026-03-03·logisticsmaps
  Flexport built a slick app for visualizing global shipping and rail traffic.
• Maintenance, Of Everything
  books2026-02-20·Stewart Brand
• Two roads to longevity
  posts2026-02-16·designarchitectureengineeringnewsletter
  The latest issue of Res Extensa draws parallels between the story of Ford and Rolls Royce and Stewart Brand's framework of Low Road and High Road design, from How Buildings Learn . We have polar…
• Initiation Well
  micro2026-02-10·architecturemasonryPortugal
  The Initiation Well at the Quinta da Regaleira estate in Portugal.
• The Timeless Way of Building
  books2026-02-02·Christopher Alexander
• The Republic
  books2026-01-30·Plato
• Isometric NYC
  posts2026-01-26·artNew York CityAILLMs
  Andy Coenen combines AI tools and satellite imagery to create stunning pixel art map of NYC that looks like SimCity 2000 come to life.
• Mysticism
  micro2026-01-23·GK Chestertonmysticismenchantment
  Mysticism keeps men sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity. The ordinary man has always been sane because the ordinary man has always been a…
• Agent-native architecture
  posts2026-01-22·agentsAIsoftware
  Discover agent-native architecture - a new software paradigm that designs systems for both human users and AI agents, focusing on composability and goal-driven interactions.
• Resistance is signal
  posts2026-01-22·behaviorhabits
  Luca Dellanna with thoughts on Pressfield's "resistance."
• Running in 2025
  posts2026-01-21·runninghealth
  Stats on running in 2025.
• A method for changing systems
  micro2026-01-20·Thomas Sowellamerican historygovernment
  What the American Constitution established was not simply a particular system but a process for changing systems, practices, and leaders, together with a method of constraining whoever or whatever was…
• The Turkish gulet
  micro2026-01-20·boats
  In today's accidental internet discovery, I ran across the "gulet", a two masted style of sailboat from Turkey.