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Ideograph/ Apr 2022 /5 min read

Ideograph • creative obligations

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examining/ Jul 2021 /5 min read

Entropy Notes

Eventually a system will realize a possibility that reduces the subsequent number of possibilities, and so on, until there are no available possibilities that could have this effect.

examining/ Dec 2020 /2 min read

Spelling

Epistemic status: Making a stab at the ineffable. The ineffable dodges and I miss. Again, argh! It always does that. Oh well, gonna keep stabbing anyway. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hey kids, wassup. Wanna talk about magic? '

examining/ Sep 2020 /11 min read

Brutality of Life Reading List (12 Books)

Earlier this year I summed up the perpetual utilitarian lament: > Despite nigh-inestimable progress [https://rootsofprogress.org/smart-rich-and-free], the world is pervaded by suffering. An unimaginable amount of suffering. Trying

advice/ Jul 2020 /3 min read

Making a Future

More advice [https://www.sonyasupposedly.com/tag/advice/] — this will be a recurring feature of Sonya Supposedly, I can already tell. Look... what can I say, the bossiness comes naturally! Query me [https://docs.

advice/ Jul 2020 /2 min read

Gathering Strength on the Horizon

One of my earliest job aspirations was advice columnist. The appeal remains, so I'm giving it a try [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfUfVNPh8_tkoJ38LAXgteniQ_OhAIqmSvzoBRf002MrFVQVw/viewform] . First question: >

examining/ Jun 2020 /8 min read

Survivalist Epistemology

On the existential politics of sorting through salience signals under uncertainty.

examining/ Jun 2020 /7 min read

Impossibility Space

You find yourself on the brink, the cusp, the verge — frozen at the edge of a sheer cliff, peering over it. How discomfiting, to regard that long fall! And yet vertigo beckons. The void

fiction/ Jun 2020 /12 min read

Stateless

I am pleased to present a short story by Matthew Sweet [https://swellandcut.com/about/], published here with the support of Sonya Supposedly members [https://www.sonyasupposedly.com/membership/]. Matthew recently finished his debut

navel-gazing/ May 2020 /4 min read

Pulling the Trigger

Reflections on quitting my day job.