David Foster Wallace made an art of taking readers into…
The pale king: an unfinished novel
The character David Foster Wallace is introduced to the banal world of the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, and the host of strange people who work there, in a novel that was unfinished at the time of the author's death
The Colonization of Confidence., Sightless Scribbles
A fabulously gay blind author.
The 'Paperwork Flood': How I Drowned a Bureaucrat before dinner., Sightless Scribbles
A fabulously gay blind author.
Manuscript — an imagined editor for research writing
A walk through an imagined product for academic writing, mocked up by Claude Design.
Bruce Sterling – Medium
Read writing from Bruce Sterling on Medium. one of the better-known Bruce Sterlings
Beyond “Woodstein”: Narratives of Investigative Journalism
Using a methodology inspired by structural narratology and by James Hamilton’s [2016. Democracy’s Detectives: The Economics of Investigative Journalism. Cambridge: Harvard] economic analysis of inv...
Shy Girl, AI In Writing, And A New Perniciousness
I wanna talk about Cameron’s The Terminator and Carpenter’s The Thing, but first, let’s get it out of the way — If you know anything at all about me in this Current Era, it …
The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and you., Sightless Scribbles
A fabulously gay blind author.
Authorship, division of labour, material and digital form; thoughts on Samuel A. Moore's Publishing Beyond the Market
On Christmas day, we had a quiet time this year. One of the things I did was to read Moore, Samuel A., Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons (University of Michigan Press, 2025). This is a most enjoyable book that outlines a project and worldview that I know Sam has been cultivating and refining for many years. I should stress that I am not writing a “review” here. I would be conflicted anyway as I am thanked in the acknowledgements. But it did, like all good books, make me think and I wanted to jot down some thoughts. These thoughts are not necessarily novel – sometimes Sam even explores some of them in the book – but I thought it would be enjoyable to express them nonetheless.
Hi, I'm David Perell.
I write, host a podcast, and run a writing school called Write of Passage.
Thoughts and Feelings around Claude Design · Sam Henri Gold
I tried Claude Design yesterday and I have a theory for how this whole thing shakes out.
Q&A: Robin Berjon on freeing journalists' feeds.
The AT protocol and “long-term, lifelong, sustainable protection against enshittification.”
The Not-at-All-Funny Life of Mark Twain
Ron Chernow’s biography dwells more on the wreck of a man than on his sublimely comic work.
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Bulletin Board: Cloud Atlas, Portland, and Small AI
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San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment
Plan S
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Faster science, penalties in evaluation, and concerns on quality and impact: Researchers’ use and perceptions of preprints