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Revisiting A Thousand Plateaus
When A Thousand Plateaus appeared in 1980, the internet was not yet part of daily life. Computers existed but were mostly confined to research centers, military projects, and specialized offices. The idea of a vast, global network of minds and machines was still science fiction. Yet the book seemed to sense that something was shifting.…
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Markdown vs Plain Text
The relationship between plain text and markdown is often taken for granted. Many assume they belong to the same family, that a preference for one naturally includes the other. But is that really true? When I move between a pure plain text editor like Notepad or TextEdit and a markdown editor like Typora or Obsidian,…
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The Open Door of Plain Prose
Open a book of mathematics and the page looks like a map to another planet. Strange letters and symbols occupy the space where you expect sentences. For those who speak its language, the page may hold elegance and order. For everyone else, it is a wall. The same thing happens with music. To a musician,…
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When Knowledge Performs
A library at rest is almost a contradiction. The shelves are filled with books, each holding the trace of someone’s thought, yet in the stillness there is no thinking taking place. The pages wait. The words rest in lines, perfectly preserved, but silent. We often imagine that a library is full of knowledge. In truth,…
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The Writer I Return To
There is a unique kind of joy that comes not from reading the works of great authors, but from reading what we ourselves have written. We often speak of favorite writers and beloved books, but when a person has written enough across the years, when journals pile up, essays stretch back into the past, and…
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