Notebook Stream
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attention
Notebook
I finally measured how fast I actually read
The number I'd always assumed for my own reading speed turned out to be off by a wide margin.
Essays
‘Attention is a resource’ is a useful lie
The economic metaphor gets the shape roughly right and the mechanism completely wrong, which matters.
Notebook
A year I mostly didn’t write here
The gap on the calendar below has an explanation, of a kind, and it isn't a dramatic one.
Notebook
The middle of any piece of writing is supposed to feel like failure
A short note on the specific despair of the unfinished middle, and why it is not, in fact, useful evidence of anything.
Essays
Why keep this as a blog instead of somewhere else
The dull, practical reasons a plain website still beats every platform I tried instead, none of them idealistic.
Notebook
I have tried every note-taking system and none of them stuck
A partial, embarrassing inventory of the systems I've adopted and abandoned, and what finally worked instead.
Elsewhere
Walking produces sentences, not just steps
The relationship between walking and thinking is real but not the one people usually describe.