Memorable dreams
Reading Time: 2 minutes It isn’t just because our dreams are more interesting than our actual lives that they’re so worth remembering. There’s a further advantage: detailed dream-memory fosters the...
View ArticleIs San Francisco “back”? I audited its parties to find out
I lately had the luck to return to San Francisco for the first time since the pandemic, and I was very keen to discover whether the place was “back”. There had much been much talk on tech Twitter in...
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Agency and Consciousness in the Sonic Sphere
This post is a birthday gift for Matt Mullenweg, who just turned 40, and modestly request blog posts as gifts. Matt cofounded WordPress, on which this blog is written; he’s been a wonderful...
View ArticleStuds Terkel and the magic of reading
I first encountered the literary genre of the oral history at the same time I caught sight of probably its most masterful exponent, Studs Terkel. I was leafing around a book shop on the upper east...
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Generative AI as a potentially purer form of the capture of human genius than...
What is the purest form of Chopin’s genius? There are a few levels. Level 1: Chopin improvising live Well, max-Chopin was surely to watch him improvise live, which he did with extraordinary style in...
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