Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
Things that make us smart
Keep the news in the Wayback Machine. Sign Fight for the Future's letter.
Magic Paper
Working notes by Michael Nielsen, November 2017. Followup to (but doesn't require) my notes on Chalktalk.
Three Quotes from Early GitHubbers
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
Everything is In-Between — Douglas Rushkoff
I’ve begun this piece maybe twenty times in the past three weeks. By the time I’ve finished the first paragraph, some new thing happens that obsolesces whatever event I’m writing about. And I’m not even writing about the news, so much as using one shared moment as a “peg” for a piece about some larger phenomenon or strategy.
David Hawkins-Weeks (@hawkinsweeks.eurosky.social) - Leaflet
Read and publish on the Atmosphere
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.
The pivot - Charlie's Diary
Back to: Interim update | Forward to: In the eyeball waiting room
Letters of Note | Shaun Usher | Substack
Nothing but history's most interesting letters. Click to read Letters of Note, by Shaun Usher, a Substack publication.
Babble Buds | The Paper Pilot
The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology
On Writing #3
Periodically I like to gather various observations about writing, and share my perspective.
Afternoon parallel: Baird Howland explores shifts in White House media in the Political Polarization and Discourse session: | IC2S2
Afternoon parallel: Baird Howland explores shifts in White House media in the Political Polarization and Discourse session:
rude1 '25 reading list
Daemon
Anathem
Starship Troopers
Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
Gnomon
Stranger in a Strange Land