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WEEKNOTE #428Up In Flames
This evening I just junked the whole thing and went with with a SaaS tool. So that was 12 solid hours spent this weekend…
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WEEKNOTE #427The Firehose and the Feed
When I read the RAND paper and Paying Attention side by side, the physics of the incentive landscape were made quite a bit clearer…
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WeeknoteResale Realism
The size second hand economy is growing super fast in the UK, about 11% a year.
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WEEKNOTE #425Large Language Numbers
I’ve been trying to get a better grip on what kind of world I’m actually living in right now.
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WEEKNOTE #424Prompted to Panic
All week I’ve been thinking to myself ‘I’m not going to write about Moltbook, I’m not going to write about Moltbook’. But I’ve found…
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WEEKNOTE #423Nice To See You
I went to a friend’s birthday at the weekend and had a lot of conversations with people I haven’t seen since my early 20s.
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WEEKNOTE #421Dirty Looks
On Saturday I went to the ‘Dirty Looks: Desire and Decay in Fashion’ exhibition that’s currently at Barbican until the 25th of Jan.
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WEEKNOTE #420Back From Sri Lanka
It already seems hard to belive that only a week ago I was sitting on the golden yellow sands of Negumbo Beach in Sri…
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WEEKNOTE #419EOY 2025
I think this is my last post of the year here on the blog. This time next week, I will be tucked up in…
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WEEKNOTE #417Narrative Bubbles
Almost to the same extent that I find the current moment ‘thrilling’, I also find it extremely annoying. Mostly, I’m exhausted by ‘discourse.’
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WEEKNOTE #416Them Guts Again
If you’ve never had a colonoscopy, let me tell you it’s a whole thing.
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WEEKNOTE #415Permission To Start Again
I didn’t quite understand what it meant back then. That a piece could define its own vessel, as I did it the other way…
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WEEKNOTE #414Lock In
Like pretty much every other Millennial, I’ve been hearing the phrase ‘Lock In’ everywhere lately.
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WEEKNOTE #4135 Days Away
My trip to Berlin was good, whilst in Germany I explored a cottage in the woods that hasn’t been touched since the GDR. wild!
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WEEKNOTE #412This Is What I’ll Think Next Year
Every six months or so, I end up writing something here about how much unfinished writing I have. Finishing things is so hard.
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WEEKNOTE #411Broken Cable, Broken Flow
I have had a really unproductive week, thanks to a technical disaster entirely of my own making.
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WEEKNOTE #410The Voltage Of The Age
My body keeps registering the ‘voltage of the age’. My former feeling of anxiety has become something like exhilaration
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WEEKNOTE #409Riding A Wave
I’ve been in the Pin Hole this weekend. A thought arrived and I just needed to get it out.
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WEEKNOTE #408After Reading The Draft
But after reading the draft I wrote about OpenAI being ALL IN on AGI, I realised I sound like a crazy person.
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WEEKNOTE #406Just Like Stuff
I’ve had a hard rule for almost twenty years: I don’t argue with people about anything on the internet.
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WEEKNOTE #405Turning of Attention
September feels like a time for recommitment. A chance to pick things back up, or begin again with a little more focus.
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WEEKNOTE #404Late Summer Light
Today, I spent all afternoon in a junk yard on a farm filming a music video with my band. It was quite fun.
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WEEKNOTE #403Summer is Waning
The summer is waning, you can feel it in the mornings, the dog days are over, and it’s getting noticeably darker earlier in the…
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