Cairns’ long summer is over, so aiming to increase my walks in the cool.
- Designing and building web and macOS apps for Vana as we explore personal data in the age of LLM agents.
- Writing more here, especially about language and knowhow (what folks call “taste”) in relation to LLMs.
- Layering a personal knowledge base that turns reading, notes and conversations into durable writing and thinking tools.
- Friction as judgment: we are all now Mickey Mouse in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice with countless broomsticks at our disposal. Where should we remove effort, and where is effort the work?
- The littoral space between felt curiosity and written compressions: why is a thing interesting before I can explain why?
- Andrey Tarkovsky, Time within Time
- Alasdair MacIntyre, Whose Justice? Which Rationality?
- Owen Barfield, Poetic Diction
- Ernst Cassirer, Language and Myth (again and again)
- David Hockney, A History of Pictures