







Draw a note by hand and leave your mark on a living wall.
Living Documents on the Feed
What could long-form writing sitting alongside posts look like?
Living Documents on the Feed
What could long-form writing sitting alongside posts look like?
Living Documents on the Feed
What could long-form writing sitting alongside posts look like?
supernote-cli: pen, paper, and a pipe
A recent NYT piece argued we need a mental fitness revolution to combat the cognitive decay caused by algorithmic feeds and generative AI. It's an efficient one-two punch. If you're not brainrotting on short form video content, you're outsourcing all of your thinking to an LLM. The result is a kind of cognitive strip-mining. What's left requires active defense. For me, one way of defending that capacity for deep work is with a pen on e-ink. Whether it's annotating a paper or starting a sketch from scratch, I'm intentionally making room for focused thought. My army of clawed Claudes and Codexes will just have to wait.
Writing Liveness
The message of the medium of generated text is liveness

Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management — Unattributed
Bridge heading into the smokey landscape. License: CC-0 I read Brennan Kenneth Brown's What have note-taking PKMs accomplished, really?...

Ink
Handwriting and drawing directly between paragraphs using a digital pen, stylus, or Apple pencil.
Bobulate - The social life of marginalia
Traveling between home and work on a single day, I count 44 notes I’ve scribbled down. These notes are in part private, in part public, and in all parts messy. They are everyday marginalia — notes …
The Making of Community Notes—Asterisk
The team that built X’s Community Notes talks about their design process and the philosophy behind their approach to combatting false information on the platform.


Write. Publish. Keep what's yours. | Offprint
Offprint is where independent writers publish, grow an audience, and keep both for the long haul.

Home | Reasons To Stay
When the world feels heavy, a kind word can make a difference. Receive anonymous letters from people who have been there. No pressure, no spam—just a quiet reminder that you are not alone.

Magic Paper
Working notes by Michael Nielsen, November 2017. Followup to (but doesn't require) my notes on Chalktalk.
Written? Kitten!
The Internet's best write-reward system! Write one hundred words, get an image of a kitten!

