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Journal
Essays, notes and arguments in progress. Written to be disagreed with, and revised when the disagreement is good.
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.
ReadKeeping 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.
ReadWhy 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.
ReadThe 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.
ReadWhat Is Technomancy?
A deliberately silly word for a serious problem: almost everyone now depends on systems they have been quietly discouraged from understanding.
ReadPerhaps 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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