Natural Philosophy5 min read
The Interesting Things Happen Between Disciplines
Fields are administrative conveniences. The world was never divided into departments, and the gaps between them are conspicuously under-occupied.
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Journal
Essays, notes and arguments in progress. Written to be disagreed with, and revised when the disagreement is good.
Artifice6 min read
Keeping a Grimoire
A personal record of learning, experiments, projects, observations, failures, diagrams, recipes and discoveries. Not a pretend spellbook. Just the single most useful habit in the whole practice.
ReadHuman Arts4 min read
Why Generalists Need Better Language
Every existing word for a broadly capable person is either an insult, a boast, or a phrase from a performance review. This has consequences.
ReadDiscernment5 min read
The Value of Knowing What You Don’t Know
Admitting ignorance is treated as a weakness in most professional settings. It is in fact the most reliable instrument any of us have.
ReadTechnomancy5 min read
What Is Technomancy?
A deliberately silly word for a serious problem: almost everyone now depends on systems they have been quietly discouraged from understanding.
ReadLore7 min read
Perhaps Wizards Already Exist
There is a kind of person who turns up in every workplace, every village hall and every reasonably interesting corner of the internet. We have never had a good name for them.
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