This is commentary. And this is really good.
What I've been watching and reading in this time:
- Paper, "The Ethics of Respect for Nature", by Paul Taylor
- Post, "The World Is Mad", by Ozy
- Post, "Steven Pinker is wrong about the Cuban Missile Crisis", by Topher Hallquist
- Article, "Disrupting the Cycle of Urban Violence With Arts and Culture", by Brentin Mock
- Article, "Strange but True: An Elemental Quest for the Building Blocks of the Universe", by Jack El-Hai
- Article, "Let Me Tell Y'all A Little Bit About the Mohists", by Max Gladstone
- Post, "The Galileo affair: who was on the side of rationality?", by Val
- Post, "Vegetarianism for Meat-Eaters", by Scott Alexander
- Post, "The Perfect Machine Versus the Art Monster", by Chuck Wendig
- Article, "THE EMPIRE NEVER ENDED. Philip K Dick, Valis, and the Psychopathology of War", by CJStone
- Post, "Nanowrimo Survival Guide: How I Write 50K(-ish) Every Month", by Chuck Wendig
- Post, "How to Write a Novel in 30 Days", by Catherynne M. Valente
- Post, "Predator Novel Process", by Jeff Vandermeer
- Post, "Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth", by Scott Alexander
Homework for the future:
- Read the posts linked to by "Responses to the Anti-Reactionary FAQ.". Eventually.
- Still on the to-do list: studying the Austrian School of Economics.
- Read Fenrir's Shrine.
- Also on the to-do list: All of those themes that I decide I want to play with, and cool bits that attract me, and things like that? Let's get systematic about that, put them into a single document (might be public, might not) and work with at least one of them every week. Systematic. Systematic. I do it best when I do it systematically.
- Also, don't forget to flesh this section out a bit more with goals in general, and maybe include a section on which of those goals were accomplished since the last update.
