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Tools for Writers: Moving from Logseq to Obsidian
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Learning to ride
An antidote to pseudo-spiritual "recovery"
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A rundown on my writing tools
Scrivener, Zotero, Substack, Zencastr, Descript, Day One, Overcast, Listen Notes, Temi, Goodreads, Open Library, the OED, Quote…
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Staying sane with research notes, citations, end notes, and a real bibliography
Using Scrivener, a good pencil, Zotero, and Obsidian together as a system
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Chapter 12 — Early days in the advertising-industrial complex, why nobody wants to pay for writing online, and why most conferences are so…
An Ordinary Disaster — chapter 12 — Wired, Tired, Fired
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E14 / Wayfinding with Kim Stanley Robinson
Listen now (64 mins) | How he became a writer, the "Cardboard Set Problem," the deep pleasure of wayfinding, the erotic charge of being in the…
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Thinking of AI as an intuition machine
Why there's a "6" on my palm, the meaning of "Decide Nothing," cave art, AI-assisted inner work, DALL-E, Jaron Lanier's "data dignity," Captain Rob, and…
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Chapter 10 — North Beach in the 90's, Yesterday Boy, and AOL chat.
An Ordinary Disaster — chapter 10 — Thursday Night Whiskey Night
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