Things are Getting Weird
Why I have half a dozen drafts and haven't released a thing, at the End of the World
Drafts are causing usability issues for visually impaired users · Issue #10035 · bluesky-social/social-app
Steps to Reproduce I saw this on Toni's blog post about the transition, but it needs to be tracked here, so: Attachments (I'm assuming mobile/iOS below, but I'm not sure) What platform(...
Thinking is not only writing
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) raises valid concerns about the loss of cognitive work embedded in scholarly writing. However, universally dismissing AI-assisted drafting mistakenly conflates writing with thinking itself and reinforces existing inequities in who can transform their ideas into polished text. Academic authorship should depend more on the depth and creativity of human intellectual engagement than on the medium through which first drafts are produced.
In Defense of Thinking - Cal Newport
Ten years ago, I published Deep Work. It was my second mainstream hardcover idea book. The previous title, So Good They Can’t Ignore You, hadn’t ... Read more
About Pckt Notes & Writers Block - Brookie’s Blog
I'm feeling bad at writing lately. I think that's okay sometimes, not everything has to be perfect... And it's not really perfection that I'm seeking, but it ca...
How to curate your personal canon
"The things won’t exist unless I signify my interest in them by at least noting down their names. Nothing exists unless I maintain it."
The Flotilla Letters: We've All Been Lied To
As I work on The Crowbar Manual, sometimes I write bits that I realize don’t belong in it.
Manuscript — an imagined editor for research writing
A walk through an imagined product for academic writing, mocked up by Claude Design.
Writing Is Thinking
When you write about your work, it makes all of us smarter for the effort, including you. Done well, this kind of sharing means you’re contributing signal, instead of noise. But writers are made, n…
The 'Paperwork Flood': How I Drowned a Bureaucrat before dinner., Sightless Scribbles
A fabulously gay blind author.
Centrist imaginations
A response to a bad article, a bad book, and a bad publication
