Missives
One a month, to the Armchair Collective.
Keep track of what's happened since you were last here with the newsletters and the changelog.
July 25, 2023
Changelog
For those paying attention, a short service delay (since Feb). Personal circumstances. Have published a backlog of articles. Many of these have come (and likely will come) from the things that have been most exciting to my management consultant peers, so you’ll notice the theme. Enjoy: The value of ritual; Saving the planet is an illusion; Solving the say-do-gap; and No action without emotion.
February 15, 2023
Changelog
New article on the careers of facts. Specifically how we consume education for entertainment, and how that manifests. Probably part of a two part series, since I cut a bunch from this one for length.
January 31, 2023
Changelog
New article on how much of our knowledge seems to come from just the easiest measurements. Two examples close to my heart: brain science and therapy.
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.
January 12, 2023
Changelog
New article: everything is choice architecture.
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.
December 30, 2022
Changelog
New articles this month: abstractions as gods and obscuring banalities. A related set of ideas that extends states of mind, everything is ideology, and spirituality of mind to their natural conclusion. I’d prefer them to be more fleshed out, but a draft will do.
November 23, 2022
Changelog
New article: trans-opportunism is boring.
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)
November 10, 2022
Changelog
New article: the colour of the inhuman world
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.
October 13, 2022
Changelog
Now publishing the front-end changes—a little more dramatic. Most obvious would be a crude darkmode, with a toggle button at the bottom left. Lots here to be unhappy with, particularly the flicker on some page transitions. But it works well enough for viewing the site at night. Colourscheme changed slightly to better accommodate.
Also a scroll to top button at the bottom right—particularly useful when reading the articles!
Both are javascript only, unfortunately.
October 12, 2022
Changelog
More backend site updates published. No more mailto links (too many bots, now with a new improved pretty Ukrainian refugee women flavour). RSS feeds split by type so you don’t have to get everything. Donation links centralised. But the main thing was an auto-drafting of newsletters, pulling in new marginalia and articles (many tears shed—more, even, than extracting the marginalia from the database yesterday).