All Episodes
2026
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
- Video games are broken; Spotify is less broken; More people have been to Russia...; We actually have an alien?
- You can do anything with technology these days
- Dan, stop encouraging it
- What does recording even mean?; Do it stupid first
- Did you try the app?
- 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