Consumption Exhaust

I just read pg’s latest essay “What to do”.

I’m revising my next novella.

I’m re-reading Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones.

I just reread Jeff VanderMeer’s Wonderbook yesterday.

I recommend reading (or listening) to AI 2027.

I’ve been fighting an epic struggle with my LLM friends on some writing, and failing mostly.

I just finished Richard Dawkins’ 2024 book “The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie”.

My eldest practices sabre fencing and the competitions can be quite brutal.

I’m writing constructing another novella.

The older I get, the more annoyed I am with my fellow humans.

I read “The Life and Adventures of William Buckley” yesterday.

I purchased a copy of Picnic at Hanging Rock for my eldest.

I am watching the TV Show “Dune: Prophecy”.

Thinking again on describing the monstrous.

I was reading A Beautiful Mind yesterday and tripped over a lovely exchange between John Nash and John von Neumann.

I read Annie Dillard’s “The Writing Life” yesterday.

I have been thinking about scenes of something entirely monstrous.

We have to move our body every day.

I have been thinking about what I could have done better with my novella “All Our Eyes”.

I think my novella is done.

I love the Netflix TV show Archive 81.

I’m hunting for errors in my novella right now.

I just finished a re-read of “The Shadow of the Torturer”.

I was thinking more about The Fountain and why I like it so much.

I love Darren Aronofsky’s film The Fountain.

I LOVE Scavengers Reign.

I build my books using Pandoc these days.

I saw this tweet go by a few weeks back: For aspiring writers: Your ultimate goal isn't building a writing habit.

My wife and I were talking to our eldest son about plagiarism, e.g. copy-paste from chatgpt.

I am playing around with LLMs as beta readers for my novella.

I’m a big fan of British TV show Utopia (2013).

I’m editing something right now.

I’m a fan of Solaris by Stanisław Lem.

I read a lot of books, but yesterday, I was thinking that I read too much.

The Netflix mini-series Midnight Mass was fun.

I re-read House of Leaves over the last few nights.

The first draft is just the beginning.

When I’m working on a larger project, my brain want’s to get all distracted.

I was thinking about how sauna is supposed to reduce all cause morality, according to some random paper.

I just tripped over a cute tweet by sama + gpt4.5. pic.twitter.com/pGe6AOHbhs — Sam Altman (@sama) March 3, 2025 He was asking if we are close to the singularity.

I have a yellow sticky note that says: “Move it forward!”

I think Michael Crichton’s “Eaters of the Dead” is cool.

I re-read a ton.

Just read the following on the benefit of writing to help thinking: Write to Escape Your Default Setting Fantastic piece.

There’s a scene in Authority that freaks out most who read it (as evidence on r/SouthernReach).

Found fiction is like the movie genre “found footage”, but for books.

Google’s LLM agent-based co-scientist looks interesting: Google builds AI ‘co-scientist’ tool to speed up research Early tests of Google’s new tool with experts from Stanford University, Imperial College London and Houston Methodist hospital found it was…

I exercise 5-7 days per week, for about 1-2 hours per day.

I’ve been using grok3 for a few days, since release (4-5 days now?).

Tyler Cowen shared his reasons why he thinks AI take-off, really LLM dissemination through society will be slow: Why I think AI take-off is relatively slow I’ve touched on this before in AI/LLM Diminishing Returns, but this has more reasons and more detai…