Sloan, Robin
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- A Re-introduction; Streaking Still Considered Harmful; Pulling the Cord and Then What?; Tiny Bits … What Is a Pantser in Writing? - Writer's Digest ( archive.is ), Robert Lee Brewer, Writer’s Digest, 11 April 2021 ↩︎ Advice for newsletter-ers ( archive.is ), Robin Sloan …
- The Careless Conversation; The Shape of Things … it feels like Robin Sloan beat everyone to the punch is accurately describing what it feels like now for a subset of people who're paying attention to …
- Another Place … 1.0 Some Things That Caught My Attention Another Place Apropos of nothing, internet friend and now-recluse Robin Sloan wrote down some thoughts about social software . I …
- s11hiatus03/05: Challenge / Response (3) … Challenge/Response (3) Challenge/Response (3) was published on March 14, 2014 in response to a challenge by Robin Sloan : he wanted me to try writing about something …
- s11hiatus02/05: Challenge/Response (2) … Challenge/Response (2) Challenge/Response (2) was published on March 13, 2014 in response to a challenge by Robin Sloan : he wanted me to try writing about something …
- s11hiatus01/05: Challenge/Response … Challenge/Response Challenge/Response was published on March 12, 2014 in response to a challenge by Robin Sloan : he wanted me to try writing about something that had …
- Cats; Writing on the Internet; the Moon; OpenDoc and Componentized Software … So the latest idea is to do something a bit like Robin Sloan's Fish: a Tap Essay , of which I've been excitedly talking to Robin about …
- What's the EGOT for Technology and Arts? … Alexander (of whom I am very jealous in terms of writing talent ), like Robin Sloan , like Naomi Alderman , but, well, let me just insert this from Naomi: Naomi …
- Yet another extra bit … March 2014) Robin Sloan challenged me to write three episodes that had nothing to do with technology or the culture/economy thereof and although it was frankly terrifying …
- Change your organization, or change your organization … to find a reasonable cite or source for this and could not. * via Robin Sloan, The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United …
- Peek Mode … WALKING SIMULATOR, perennial Dan Hon's brain fan-favorites Leigh Alexander (ibid) and Robin Sloan. * In Case You Missed It (sorry), a thread on Twitter about how some …
- DNS Fan Fiction; 100-watt-hour-Trucks … market segments that are viable. 3.0 Your Partner's An A.I. Robin Sloan wrote me a note in response to my thought the other day about …
- The Generative Surplus … Wonderful writer and newsletter reader Robin Sloan made a thing: a recurrent neural network that's a text generator, trained on a corpus of old science-fiction stories …
- Change will continue to accelerate until morale improves … treatment center in the middle of Oregon and "tight, provocative techno-thriller" ensues). Robin Sloan (humblebrag: reader of this newsletter) and Ellis (ditto, even less humble) had a …
- SMALL MOVES, ELLIE … Pleystation glitch-shirt[1] * better technology in American government is being institutionalised[2] * Robin Sloan is a national treasure and a genius for this centaur RNN-assisted writing …
- Broadcast Resumed … vehicle surrounding awareness and control of breaking is also hoped to save lives. - Robin Sloan found a note that on Facebook where we have the chance to forward …
- Coffee; Brands; Stream, Stock and Flow; Paperless … Stock and Flow is a reference, as always, to Robin Sloan's concept of Flow (the feed) and Stock (the durable, long-term stuff)[5] from 2010. [1 …
- Politeness … simultaneously having been inspired by *the same parody*?" and a similar prompt from Robin Sloan, who was tickled by my phrase: "do we need robot tags for "index …
- The Random Walk Strategy; The Wrong Way Round; Miscellanea … I am looking at you, Robin Sloan, as I believe this is relevant to your interests. The schedule for next year's O'Reilly Design Conference is up …
- Better Days … sole representative of transformative software and technology, then we should cheerlead other examples. Robin Sloan, for example, pointed out to me that the obsession with the Valley leads …
- The Material (4); More Ways Of Seeing … Along the same lines, Robin Sloan wrote an interesting piece about the Amazon Fire phone at the Farmer's Market[2] and, in my mind, what we choose …
- What You Want; Messiahs; The List … A Novel and Annabel Scheme by Robin Sloan Little Brother by Cory Doctorow The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang Blindsight by Peter Watts -- OK, that's …
- Taking Stock; And The New … What I will link to, though, are the episodes that I wrote in response to a prompt from Robin Sloan: he wanted me to write about something that …
- The Book and The Library; More Responsive OS … Who knew? 1.0 The Book and The Library I had lunch with Robin Sloan[1] the other day, he of Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Book Store …
- Transcendence; Broom-Shaped Objects; Odds … three-disbanded-the-responsive-os/ I was lucky enough to grab lunch with Robin Sloan today and my brain is predictably fizzing post-conversation, so I'm excited …
- Apple and Nike; Critiquing Everyone Deserves Great Design; Odds … I bet Robin Sloan would be all over this. A sort of tap/fish means of content/presentation for rhetoric. Third, I throwaway mentioned that Captain America: The …
- On Design; New Aesthetic Zeitgeist Bingo; Odds … One is a side-conversation I had with Robin Sloan in response to what I wrote about Suarez's Daemon series. There's something, Sloan said, in a …
- Wearable Reckons; Mirror Neurons; More Google … that's also an excuse for me to point some books your way. Robin Sloan (hi, Robin!) has written a few wonderful pieces and it's a strand …
- On Creativity; But What Is The User Need; Universal Service And now, back to your regularly scheduled programming after the good Robin Sloan's intervention. Let's dive straight in. 1.0 On Creativity This particular reckon is …
- Challenge / Response (3) … I have never, ever, loved being tired this much. -- Okay, so that's it! I've discharged Robin Sloan's challenge and I eagerly await his grading of …
- Challenge / Response (2) Previously, on this newsletter: Robin Sloan challenged me to write three consecutive newsletter episodes that had nothing to do with technology or the culture/economy thereof. Flatteringly, he …
- Challenge / Response … I want him to be okay with being himself. -- Tomorrow, another very special episode, wherein I complete part two of Robin Sloan's challenge. As ever, I appreciate …
- Structure; Humble, Direct and Curiously Cautious; The Scale Of Things, Risks … 2.0 Humble, Direct and Curiously Cautious That's how Robin Sloan described[1] the team at BERG and the way they announced their latest project, Cloudwash, on …
- The Short One … it was less of an idea and more of a nudge, given that interesting people like Roo Reynolds[1] and Alexis Madrigal[2] and Robin Sloan[3] have …
- Happy Birthday and Connections … What? After yet another exhortation to my followers on Twitter to subscribe to this newsletter, an interesting exchange[1] with Matt Haughey, Alexis Madrigal and Robin Sloan about …