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The revolt of the reader | The Observation Deck
Reading is important to me. While I’m not a quick reader nor an especially voracious one, I have found that long-form reading has had a profound influence on me over my life. And because reading is important to me, writing is too: writing not only allows us to convey our ideas, but the very act forces us to test and distill them — at once making our ideas more robust while providing the vehicle by which to share them.
The 'Paperwork Flood': How I Drowned a Bureaucrat before dinner., Sightless Scribbles
A fabulously gay blind author.
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A Love Letter to Flashcards | Lesley Lai
A personal reflection on how spaced repetition and hand crafted flashcards helps me to keep understanding alive
The Colonization of Confidence., Sightless Scribbles
A fabulously gay blind author.
Is ubiquitous A.I. writing "inevitable"?
On a weird few weeks of A.I.-writing scandals
Connecting with your readers on Semble [Patterns of Sensemaking #2] - Cosmik Labs
On how the references you make help your writing find its natural audience
Standard Paper — Independent writing, beautifully read
Discover articles from across the atmosphere, gathered in one place for focused reading.
Sequential.work — Lexicons for comics on AT Protocol
Shared lexicon schemas for comics on AT Protocol. Webtoons, comic books and comic strips under work.sequential.*
Rotating the Space: On LLMs as a Medium for Thought
An essay on LLMs as a cognitive medium
Today · Standard Reader
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This is Not the End of Reading. It's the End of Modernism.
Why academics and journalists are confusing Modernism with reading itself.
Canonize: Creating a Personal Canon Template – Brendan Schlagel
I love the idea of the “personal canon”: an encapsulation, in list form, of those things that have most shaped you. A sort of annotated bibliography of influences.
MAiD, ableism, cognitive accessibility, and more
This one took a bit to write. The first piece is long (1,600+ words), and intense. But it needed to be said. I'll be interested to hear what you think. You...
