







A funny and unpretentious guide by the illustrious novelist Umberto Eco, for his favorite audience: teachers and their students.

Revenge of the Dilettantes
Book club and AI adventures, age of bespokeness, study groups, new rules of engagement

Revenge of the Dilettantes
Book club and AI adventures, age of bespokeness, study groups, new rules of engagement


A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
A book that redefines both family and narrative for the…

help! my husband is addicted to Claude Code.
the first, and possibly last, writerbuilder advice column

Toward a durable writing stack – Writings and rehearsals by Nathan Schneider
I have benefited over the years from others who have documented their writing setups, and so I feel some obligation to pay the favor forward by doing so with my own. The stack I’ll describe here is one I’ve been iterating on for about twenty years, starting from when I began discovering the pleasures of plain-text writing. Every aspect of it has changed over that period, but the some basic goals and flows have been with me through the writing of my college thesis, five books, and hundreds of articles. I am quite happy with where I am, and others might benefit from what I’ve come up with.

Manuscript — an imagined editor for research writing
A walk through an imagined product for academic writing, mocked up by Claude Design.
The best writing advice I’ve ever read comes from Robert Frost.
I write prose, not poetry, but the most helpful piece of advice I’ve ever read was written by a poet: Robert Frost, who was born 147 years ago today. In the second, expanded edition of his Co…


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Profit, cost, price, learned societies; further thoughts on Samuel A. Moore's Publishing Beyond the Market
Since I last wrote, I have had a few more thoughts on Samuel Moore’s book. Again, these are not necessarily things that he does not discuss or things that he should have discussed. They are merely thoughts that occurred to me in response to reading his work.

Why is Claude for Teachers?
Anthropic bumbles its way into education

The End of Reading Is Here

“The End of Reading Is Here” - The Ringer