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The Poetics of Transparent Sound
The Moving Frame Every philosophy of listening is, at its root, an autobiography of temperament. The music we return to over decades rarely reflects…
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Beyond the Filing Cabinet
The Economist and the Cloud Years before the productivity world became infatuated with second brains and networked note-taking platforms, an elderly Japanese economist was…
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River Flow and Carved Stone in the Art of Thinking
The Lure of the Clean Slate The modern fascination with personal knowledge management frequently begins with an aesthetic promise. High-grade notebooks bound in linen,…
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Writers, Public Personas, and the Communities Around Literature
A Novel That Returned Through an Article An article marking the eightieth anniversary of the birth of Kenji Nakagami (1946 – 1992) brought back…
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Preserving Knowledge for Human and Machine Readers
The Promise of the Digital Copy There was a time when scanning a book felt like completing the work of preservation. A shelf of…
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When Productivity Means Thinking Further
The Document Nobody Wanted to Write or Read A recent article about the workplace “AI doom loop” describes a scene that is already easy…
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A Future That Still Looks Unfamiliar
The Future Remembered from Childhood A few video clips on YouTube brought back a future I had encountered as a child. They featured the…
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The Tools Between Thought and Words
A Writer Who Never Left His Word Processor There is something wonderfully anachronistic about imagining Seigo Matsuoka at work in the 2020s. Around him…
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The Universal Reader Who Does Not Exist
The Feeling of a Clean Page Some pages feel clean before we have decided whether we agree with them. The sentences proceed without congestion.…
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Living by the Horizon
When Time Stops Feeling Endless After living for more than half a century, it becomes difficult to imagine the future as an unlimited field.…
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The Long Form of a Thinking Life
The Invitation to Stay Open a publication such as Engelsberg Ideas and the screen begins to ask for a different kind of behavior. There…
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Books for the Market, Books for a Life
The Ranking That Opened a Different Question A ranking of bestselling novels in Japan recently gave me an unexpected reason to think about reading.…