July 19 - July 31 2026
Field Notes ID
The power of personal printouts is under utilized
You took no risks, you got no rewards
Death of the Scenius Artist: A creator is left to fend for themselves on a faceless ToS platform of strangers, hostile or friendly, depending on a undisclosed set of factors.
The audience uses the only mode available to them to reach you. (The mode is more Internet.)
Both producer and consumer launch content offensives at each other.
What would a Personal Library toy look like? How would it be played with?
- Remarkable
- While encrypted
- (Physical + Digital) Object >= Physical Object > Digital Object
No useless action, no useful thought
What is the US tolerance for on shore manufacturing? What are the limits of NIBYism?
NYC is a real place. NYC is (also) just an idea
Do no harm, but my death should mean nothing to you, either
I want to be responsible for a statistically significant increase in the amount of systems readers
The floor is profit
Contacts to Contracts
How many reading system skills exist? Mechanically: finite amount, but more than currently practiced/known. Software increased the space (databases, internet, e-ink, etc.)
You found me at a very workshop time in my life
Her eyes bear no ill will, and appreciate any love they receive
I want to become more effective and more eclectic. At the same time
Born naked, married in a suit, buried in a suit.
The suit increases the celebration of daily life.
The suit is a cultural object
Water and shit will both roll downhill
The people yearn for an ontology
A list is not shorter than a paragraph
- List
- Not Shorter
- Paragraph
LLMs will make up a confidence score from thin air
To prevent LLM drift on sensitive data, use a third party ID system (the model interacts with classes of IDs instead of specific data) to keep the variables from becoming, variable. Tool calls only accept IDs
Org trees as a company spell check
A probability machine will introduce entropy faster than a deterministic one
Ink can only spill, a BIC pen vs the BP ocean is a matter of degree
Does paper have a sixth sense of what will be written on it?
