I also transitioned from Sendy to Listmonk and consequently, the newsletter has been broken for a while. Forgive the subsequent pile up of articles, podcasts, and lectures.

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I wrote my ETHIC Stack up properly, rather than resorting to AI. I also used it to improve the ethical decision-making model [we developed at RMA Sandhurst. Now, altogether, this work forms the core of the Ethical Leadership module I run at Sandhurst.

I also re-wrote my motivation articles, because those two have become a core part of my leadership content at Sandhurst.

I’ve had another go at explaining why AI seems so familiar, and yet so alien to us, and this will also almost certainly become part of my teaching as I begin a project of integrating AI into the leadership programme at Sandhurst.

Just six months off forcing half-cooked articles out every week, and look how much has been done!

But the more exciting news is that I’m finally testing the waters with the podcast. I’ve got two now: Stress is Good and Men aren’t from Mars. I’ll share more when I’m ready to launch it properly, but it’s experimental for now. See what you think.

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However, the whole experience has made me realise that I’ve been pretty annoyed this last year. Since June, I’ve written an article a week, and most of them are shit.

I used to write an article a month, and I used to write them basically just for me—working an idea out for myself—and so it’s no surprise that I usually quite liked those articles.

But many people reasonably complained that they were impenetrable and infrequent. So I committed to an article a week instead, and I’d try to bridge the gap—try to write articles that were a little for me and a little for everyone else.

The result is that, for the most part, they do neither. Lots of strange fragmentary ‘series’ style posts, and unfinished and incomplete thinking. All useless to me, but also not very penetrable to others.

Then I wrote this 45-page paper, and I was obsessed with it. And I love it. And I don’t care that no one will read it.

So I’m going back to that, I think. Writing articles that are me being thoughtful for me. BUT. I will look to producing new forms of content for others, because I like teaching too. Rather than do two things badly, I will do both things well.

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It’s not a terrible thing, because I hate sending these three or more part articles. With this week’s newsletter, you’ll get all of my moral terrain thinking-articles together.

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First, I now have a sort of ‘tour’ of the site I’m calling Animals First. It does a little handholding around the threads on the site, since all my playing around with the website doesn’t always make things so navigable.

Second I have a landing page for more applied stuff, I’m calling Karstica. People sometimes ask me to do stuff for money, and it’s not always appropriate to send them to the main page since I publish on a pretty wide range of topics. I’ll collect more practical content and such there.

Lastly, in trying to make the website a bit more mobile friendly and app-like, I have adjusted all the article listings to pop-up with an excerpt and ideology so you can figure out whether you want to read it before navigating to it. I’d be interested to hear if this is easier or harder to use. There is a known issue where sometimes the excerpt is wrong. No idea yet why that happens.

Happy new year!

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We’ll shoot now for an article and a newsletter every week, I reckon. Let’s see.

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Still publishing articles at least monthly:

• on brain waves
• on silly trends in pop-neuroscience
• on the colour purple
• some reflections on my PhD

So far this year has been a real improvement on last. We’re almost on track to see the newsletter start again within the next week or so. Thanks for bearing with me.

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Updated article on rejection sensitivity since google is spruiking that for some reason.

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In the spirit, I also updated Science of Discontent. Take heart.

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In other news, I added to the site a symbol I drew to explain the credenda to someone. I like it. Do you?

A bit more streamlining of the various projects and blurbs and whatnot in response to reader feedback. Should be easier to work out what’s on the site, and what it’s for.

Fixed some issues in the layout that have bothered me for a while. Also, all the images on the site are now way better. They look the same, but trust me, back here it’s way better.

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I removed the parrot from the home page. It lasted two months. I’ll try something else another time.

All content titles now indicate what kind of content it is (e.g. article, marginalium, etc).

Marginalia will now be published at least daily, since it’s easier to actually publish them.

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Over the past couple weeks:

• restyled analects
• finished up the site copy updates
• added a little parrot to the home page (we’ll see how long that lasts)

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Also, some considerable work on the articles pages. All my articles are markdown files, and lots of features went unparsed when they get rendered as HTML. But now, we have linkable headings, a table of contents, a properly working footnotes feature, and the ability to see the ideology and summary at the top of each page. Very pleasing.

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Also a scroll to top button at the bottom right—particularly useful when reading the articles!

Both are javascript only, unfortunately.

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Some streamlining of the site, largely in response to feedback. The old Anthologies page is replaced by the Analects in preparation for new kinds of content, and to be more coherently aligned to the manifesto. Missives (newsletters and changelog) are now combined wherever they appear, rather than split across javascript tabs (less javascript!). Articles tab on the home page now displays a random selection of two curated, and three latest articles. Home page about section provides more pointers around the site (and about what the site is doing). Projects updated.

Then, just for myself, extracted the Marginalia from the database and printed them as markdown files so I can add and edit them like the rest of the site content. The old way (entering via front end) was very time consuming and unpleasant, but the prospect of printing and messing with the database was extremely distressing. Yet through adversity we grow and here we are. Hopefully this will mean I actually curate the Marginalia properly now, and all my saved links will finally get published. We’ll see.

Upgraded to TailwindCSS 3.0 (from 1.0!). Some subsequent new visual features and code tidying that will probably please no one but me.

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Everything is ideology

Spirituality of Mind

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Updates to four common causes of relationship conflict.

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