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
- Neal Stephenson is leaking again; When computer isn’t computer
- Defaults and threat-model.md; Making a toaster, but societal institutions
- It’s all vibes, until it’s not
- What if they’re all right?; I didn’t make this; I write because
- The OODA loop
- Three Short Pieces; India’s UPI; A 33% floor; Period drama
- Technology is a tool and we have choices to make as a society; It’s magic
- Trinity
- Artificially intelligent pragmatism; Your subjective experience is generative; The Profane Town Crier
- Tools are easy now, data is hard; Background culture; Tingly is a decision I have to live with; Uniqueness Index
- It Was Supposed To Be Different; Reading Material
- Organizational Entropy, Activation Energy, and Catalysts
- Adjust Your Register; The Curse of The Next Generation; Some Sort Of Tinkerbell; Your AI Pharmacy
- Just the Links
- The Irritating Aspect of Spiciness; Improving Pharmacies Somewhat
- For All Humanity?; Gordon Moore Folds Your Clothes
- Somebody Else’s Cloud
- Well, What Would You Do?
- A Different Strategy, The Sanest Choice In An Insane World
- You Broke It, We (Should) Own It
- Anything LLMs Can Do, I Can Do Better
- It's (not) the economy stupid; gaining convenience at the expense of agency
- That Whole Moltbot/OpenClaw YOLOing AI Agents Thing
- The Collapse of Form
- The Problem is Defining the Problem; The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Caring
- What Does it Mean to be Friends?
- Things Could Have Been Different; LLMs as LitTech, Their Use as Response to Mass Functional Illiteracy
- An End Of Year Opinion About AI Because Why Not; Good Enough Mitigation of Reasonably Foreseeable Harm
- Efficiency Gains; I Understand You, But Could Never Be You; Can You Teach A Machine To Be Human?
- Still Mad As Hell; The World’s Best Worst Client; How Many Chances Do You Get?; Sunset Syndrome
- Not About How it Looks
- se20e05: AI Models; The All Souls Exam; Melvynn Bragg as an Oxford Don; Grounding; Being Human; Worry About The Same Things
- A Software Strategy
- Yeah, it’s the future
- A Model for the People
- Better than Average; How People Work
- Your Model is Naive and it’s Not The Territory
- Hallway Track; DOGE; Efficiency; COBOL; Give None of These Things; Context, Not News
- Two Easy Pieces
- It’s Not 2006 Anymore; The Useful, Vernacular Institution; What Is Free Our Feeds, Anyway?
- A Very Short Announcement
- Decide What’s Important; Tacit Admission
- Fine, Social Networks; Are you in?
- The first stage is denial
- Just Enough World Model; Actually, it’s about Federalism
- Kill Your Gods
- For Informational Purposes; Product management is hard, a reminder; Shadow IT
- Do Reply; Use plain language, and tell the truth
- Sure, Fine, Crushed It; Smarts
- Doing What’s Important; Hidden Reasons; When They Tell You, Etc...