Half a year ago, in December of 2023, I announced that I was retiring this Substack, wanting to work on something new.
I did work on that thing (content for a new Substack) for a while but wasn’t finishing anything.
I can blame the usual reasons:
Lack of confidence in my ideas
Lack of time to develop and flesh things out
Distraction (every time I started developing an idea a newer, shinier idea would float through my mind)
What I ultimately concluded was that the new things I was developing were not discontinuous enough with this Substack to merit starting a completely new one and rebuilding a subscriber base.
Rather, I decided I should branch out a lot in what I’m writing about here. After all, it is easier to explore a space from a known, useful starting point, rather than to (blindfolded) plunge into the wilderness and then start exploring from the first hole you fall into.
(image by Microsoft Designer, prompt: “8-bit pixel art style image of an astronaut in a spacesuit, wearing a blind, running as fast as possible on a flat plane with deep holes in it.”(
What I mean to say is:
You are going to see some experiments.
Some posts all my own work
some posts will be generative AI assisted (I will be clear when I use AI and how)
Future posts will include:
Text
Audio
Video
Code / website widgets (links to those)
Combinations of all of the above
Link posts with value-added syntheses/weird thoughts on common themes between the links and Next Questions(TM) to ask about them
New content within a week. I look forward to sharing more with you all soon.