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Writing That Forgets Itself
When people begin their writing with a confession about how long it has been since they last wrote, or how they finally found a free moment, something important is lost. The reader is asked to share in the behind the scenes chatter of the author rather than the substance of the work itself. These small…
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Writing Beyond the Noise
When Stanley Kubrick released 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1968, audiences entered theaters expecting a science fiction adventure. They saw spacecraft moving with balletic grace, a red-eyed computer that seemed almost human, and a journey into cosmic mystery. Yet what lingers decades later is not the spectacle of rockets or the year printed in the…
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The Freedom of Plain Text and AI
There is no shortage of apps that promise to organize the human mind. Obsidian with its glowing graph view, Notion with its customizable dashboards, Roam with its block-level linking. Each has created communities of enthusiasts who spend hours tweaking their systems, sharing screenshots, and hunting for the perfect plugin. The rise of artificial intelligence has…
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Ghosts and Roots of Language
Languages are not simply tools of communication. They are also archives, keeping within their structures the echoes of past centuries. Every time we write or speak, we are inheriting choices made long before us, by scribes, poets, reformers, and governments. A word on the page may look ordinary, but its spelling, shape, and sound are…
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