All Episodes
Episodes
Things That Caught My Attention is split into seasons and episodes. Here's what Robin Sloan has to say about personal newsletters and seasons.
Jan 2014Sep 2026
- I Don’t Know, A Skateboard Or Something
- Do Not Reply Stickers; Computers were a Bad Idea; Two Things About Startups; and more tidbits
- Low-Hanging Fruit, Information Processing, and People Problems
- Babel Notices; Our Scientists Recommend We Research Fusion Power; An Unusually Diverse and Complex Technology Estate; Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- What Are We Doing Here, Exactly?; LLMs Are Playful, Actually
- A Re-introduction; Streaking Still Considered Harmful; Pulling the Cord and Then What?; Tiny Bits
- Everything is Better, Except...
- Pulling the Cord; Do Not Reply; Fast User Switching
- Justice in Forensic Algorithms; The One With Retroactive Bereavement Fare Claims; Bits and Pieces
- Context is King; Explicit People Personality Preferences; OS Licensing, but Different
- Alt Text; Reply Management Stickers
- What does it take to trust?; The Young Lady’s Illustrated Tour Guide
- Infinite Canvas; A Stand-Up Deployment?; The Omelas Cinematic Universe; Taxonomies and Online Community
- The Great Social Network Heist
- It’s not a hardware or software problem, dummy
- Unreliable Narrators; Palate Cleansers
- You don’t want an intelligent assistant; Protocols, Not Platforms
- Personality; A Rule about Designing Games
- How It’s Made; Blocking is Healthy, Actually
- How old things keep living; Impossible AI; Look, just call it AI
- What We Predict; Rods for Looking at God; Tactical Auditorium
- Qualified Endorsements; Happiness; Writing
- Dark; Forward-Looking Barn Door Statements
- Generative People Personalities; Content Distribution Networks (Taylor's Version)
- Rude; A Financial Services Social Network?; We Should Improve Attribution and Sourcing Somewhat
- Not Up and To The Right; Just Deeper, Really; Better Wording Faster; Tools for Remembering; A Centaur for Caring?; Of Course They're Art
- Just Put A Fucking Warning Label On It; A Sort Of Qualified Immunity; Doing a Spreadsheets is Coding; Rotate 75 Degrees Around The Vertical
- The Torment Nexus Section; RFPs, man. RFPs.
- Five Things From Hallway Track 001: The Cosy Internet
- Mitigation Strategies; The Unbearable Necessity of Portability; Tactical Binding Covenants
- Substack's Thin End of the Quora Wedge
- Anything But The Internet: Shakespeare; Stupid Mental Health Walks; You Can Just Ask For What You Deserve
- Sudo Do Me An Ethical Art; Twitter Imploding Was Good, Actually
- Free-range, Organic, and Natural; The Original Promise
- It Sounds Like You're Jealous; Scale Considered Harmful
- Tech Journalism, But Not Tech Journalism; Sounds More Like A You Problem
- Answering "Governments should be on Mastodon?", or, A Sort of Amateur Cory Doctorow, and an ending that surprised even me
- Hands, Brains, Eyes
- It's the Unique Integration of the Hardware, the Silicon, and the Software, Stupid
- Consensual Hallucination; Hospitals; Warm, Statistically Plausible Generic Platitudes
- I too aspire for my memory to be safe
- Marks on Flat Planes
- Good Enough
- The Best To-Do List or Project Management Software Is The One That Works For You Right Now
- Hey, Ease Up; A Load-Bearing If-Statement
- Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town; Streaks Broken; Aigg on your Face, Big Disgrace
- Concept Art
- Biblically Accurate AI, or, Hey ChatGPT, Bury This News For Me
- To help you best, I'd need to know you
- Your Timeline needs a DJ; Enough