| 2025-12-05 | Best Music of 2025
It's 2025, y'all. |
| 2025-11-28 | The Future Sprawl
I have the best lasagna recipe |
| 2025-11-26 | I'm A Modern Man
Watch out Tom Haverford, I've got my thoughts about modern fiction. |
| 2025-10-23 | Who is Snoop Dogg?
Let's talk about the depths. |
| 2025-10-13 | The air is getting cooler
There's a rumble in the air, and it smells like TikTok |
| 2025-09-21 | In Defense of Russell
Do you have Russellmania yet? |
| 2025-09-02 | Utopia is not Real, It Cannot Hurt You
Viktor Frankl wants a word, come and take a seat. |
| 2025-07-27 | The Systemless System
We'd rather spend time honing systems into hellish spider webs than change any aspect of ourselves for the better, though painful it may be. |
| 2024-12-31 | Holy Shit - I'm a narcissist
Father John Misty knows something about narcissism that I don't. |
| 2024-11-14 | Best Music of 2024
2024 was a great year for music. Here are some of my favorites. |
| 2024-09-05 | Minimalism Is Consumerism In Disguise
We'd rather fill our engine with snake oil so when it breaks we can allow ourselves to buy the car you saw in an ad on a bus station last week, instead of just taking the car to the unemployment office in the first place. |
| 2024-04-04 | Discovering New Music in 2024
Discovering new music has never been as easy nor as hard. Here's the way I (currently) do it. NB outdated. |
| 2023-12-26 | Shot in the Back by Memory: Bob Dylan's Brownsville Girl
How Dylan uses an old movie, starring Gregory Peck, to tell a new story. |
| 2023-11-26 | Just Do It
How to improve at any field. step 1 - do the thing. There's no step 2. |
| 2023-11-12 | Tools Are Distractions
Tools are hammers. We must not confuse the hammer for the one wielding the hammer. |
| 2023-10-12 | Basic Print-Ready Books In LaTeX
Basic tutorial for how to create print-ready books in LaTeX from scratch. |
| 2023-08-09 | Quantifying Subjectivity
The unsustaniable disdain for the immeasurable stems partly from our rational aversion to taking risks for others. But any solution can't ignore the psychological aspects. |
| 2023-07-02 | Self-Hosted Music Synergy
Rationale and tutorial for setting up your own music streaming service using Airsonic, while maintaining synergy between Airsonic and Nextcloud. |
| 2023-05-22 | Reading Wisely
Read to remember or read to forget. IMO - skip the second brain, keep your first one sane. |
| 2023-04-28 | Do For The Doing
In a world where goals are increasingly hollow or automated, the only sane path is to enjoy the act itself. Write, run, create, not for the result, but because doing is the only thing left that's real. |
| 2023-04-14 | Image Shaped In Isolation
Artistic creation isn't divine isolation but intentional collage. Steal like Dylan, remix like Borges, and stop pretending your subconscious is a sacred oracle instead of a glorified scrapbook. |
| 2023-02-25 | The Wimpiness Epidemic
In a world where identity is shaped by fear of disapproval and social media punishes sincerity, the only rebellion left is to be fully, stubbornly, embarrassingly yourself. Just like the beats (minus the bigotry) |
| 2022-12-31 | A Better Reading Goal
Categorical reading lists instead of numerical. |
| 2022-12-11 | The Outcast's Impossible Dream
Society doesn't reject outcasts because they're wrong, but because they don't adhere to the status quo. Which is why Don Quixote rides alone, and why his madness might be the only honest sanity left. |
| 2022-11-26 | Creativity in the Age of Generated Everything
As AI floods the creative world with perfect but soulless output, what still matters, and always will, is the messy, pointless, deeply human act of attempting to prove we're not just keys on a piano. |
| 2022-11-20 | Tao Te 'Stoner'
Stoner is a quiet tragedy of a man who drifts like water but forgets to steer. Too rigid when he should bend, too passive when he should act, and a lesson in how even the noblest path can drown you if you never look where it leads. |
| 2021-10-24 | Letting Go Of Star Wars
Why I think The Last Jedi was underrated, and overrated, at the same time. And how Star Wars sits in relation to Taoism. |
| 2021-07-26 | Faith & Fleabag
Fleabag pinpoints why faith in the modern world is a tricky concept. |
| 2021-07-06 | No One Remembers You. Excellent.
Everything ends, including you and your work. Becker states there's a choice about choosing to create anyway. Not for legacy, but to give form to the void. |
| 2021-06-13 | The Denial Of Death
Ever wondered why we're all obsessed with leaving a mark? Becker's 'The Denial of Death' suggests it's just our elaborate way of trying to outsmart the inevitable. |
| 2020-10-23 | Meditation
Some thoughts on meditation. |