| Name | Subtitle | Writings | Count |
|---|---|---|---|
30 Impressions | A project where I imitate the voice of 30 authors | 2 | |
3D Scanning | The cameras in our phones will re-create our world | ||
Advertising | Mass-scale convincing | 1 | |
AI Machine Dreams | Rendering my linework through artificial intelligence | 2 | |
Aliens | Extra-terrestrial beings, either biological or machine | ||
Americana | Early American music and culture, pre-1900 | 1 | |
Ancient Greece | Hellenic culture & religion, pre-Christianity | ||
AR | Slow to develop, but could beat VR | ||
Architecture | My college major, the "plastic" construction of space | 3 | |
Architecture Projects | Ideas for 3D-Designs I could one day pursue | 1 | |
Architecture School | A military-grade bootcamp for creativity | 2 | |
Art | Original creations, expressions of self | 3 | |
Artificial Intelligence | Synthetic brains - originated in the 1960s | 6 | |
Audience Building | 100 > 1,000 true fans to support yourself | 4 | |
Autobiography | Revealing some truth about my real-life | 5 | |
Beeple | Committed to daily drawings for 13+ years | 1 | |
Bitcoin | The original decentralized currency | 1 | |
Blockchain | Extremely inefficient database - also the future | 1 | |
Bob Dylan | Folk songwriter, laces lyrics with visuals | 2 | |
Bull Market | "Be fearful when others are greedy" | ||
Burning Man | Desert festival since 1990, moving online | ||
Cardano | Generation 3 Blockchain, by IOHK | 1 | |
Carl Jung | Pioneer of “active imagination” (the Red Book) | ||
Childhood | Life in the 1990s; sumps and power lines | 2 | |
Christianity | Greek-Orthodox, respectful with heretical takes | 1 | |
Communication Technology | From telephones to VR headsets | 2 | |
Confession | Not like church, more like Jack Kerouac | 1 | |
Consciousness | The mystery of self-awareness | 1 | |
Conspiracy | Underrated - great brain exercise | ||
COVID | A slow-moving biological Chrenobyl | 1 | |
Cryptocurrency | Digital money, Wild West | 7 | |
Cyberpunk | Digital resistance to monopolies | 2 | |
David Perell | Founder of Write of Passage | 4 | |
Death | An inevitable truth to ponder daily | 2 | |
Deconstructed | Analyzing great writers | 1 | |
Democracy | An ideal around governance | 2 | |
Digital Network | Systems reliant on the scale of uesrs | 3 | |
Discipline | Calendar-time, routine | 2 | |
Dream | When reality seems dubious | 1 | |
Duke Surfs the Metaverse | A fiction series inspired by my VR experiences | 1 | |
Editing | Not rewriting words, but rewiring synapses | 4 | |
Education | Lessons from the architecture school curriculum | 1 | |
Ethereum | Programmable blockchain | 5 | |
Evernote | Used Evernote from 2011-2019 | 1 | |
Evolution of Technology | PC > iPhone > VR > Neuralink | 2 | |
Existentialism | Cosmic despair and meaninglessness | 3 | |
Facebook | Attempting to claim the Metaverse | 2 | |
Family History | Stories passed down from the elders | 1 | |
Fernando Pessoa | Portuguese writer, 1888-1935, 73 alter-egos | 3 | |
Fiction | Emphasis on characters, places, and emotion | 7 | |
Flow | Losing track of time, focus | 3 | |
Fluid Creativity | Not letting categorization block your output | 2 | |
Food | The body & technology around it | 4 | |
Goals | Prioritization over complexity | ||
Grateful Dead | Electric bluegrass, check out "Anthem of the Sun" | 1 | |
History | From Ancient Greece through MS-DOS | 1 | |
Hunter S. Thompson | Gonzo Journalism: the author at the center | 3 | |
Hyperlink | The original portal | ||
Identity | Multi-faceted souls vs. atomic individuals | 3 | |
Information Architecture | Hierarchies and patterns within objects | 1 | |
Internet History | WWW launched in 1993 | 3 | |
Interoperability | Fluidity of data & experience between new tech | 1 | |
Jack Kerouac | The Beats, “Dharma Bums,” “On the Road” | 2 | |
Justin Hall | The founding father of personal bloggers | ||
Kurt Vonnegut | Non-linear fiction, interviewed within Second Life | 2 | |
Language | A driving force in human evolution | 2 | |
Legacy | Post-humous existence and impact | 3 | |
Libraries | Collection of half-read books | 1 | |
Life Extension | Writing as a way to exist in the future | 2 | |
Lyrics | Word to a tune, scene-painting | ||
Mario | Super Mario World 2.. classic | 2 | |
Marshall McLuhan | Media theorist, prophet of electronic culture | 5 | |
Meditation | Ranges from breathe work to active imagination | 1 | |
Metaverse | A VR/AR fabric that enables “digital teleportation” | 7 | |
Mindfulness | Awareness in the moment | 2 | |
Miro | Visual mind-mapping tool | 2 | |
Mise en Place | French art of planning & conscious cooking | 2 | |
Music | Liquid architecture, beeps and boops | 3 | |
Neos | A society of people living in virtual reality | ||
Netflix | The home of binge culture | 1 | |
Network Design | Critiques on the design of networks | 2 | |
New York | “The only city in America” | 3 | |
Note-taking | Preserving information for your future self | 2 | |
Notion | The best tool for object-oriented systems | 4 | |
Object-Oriented | A system of defined classes, Revit, C++, Notion | 1 | |
Octopus | Creatures with a visual ink language | 2 | |
One Thing | The most useful productivity advice I’ve found | 1 | |
Online Writing | Publishing words consistently on the Internet | 6 | |
Pappou George | Grandfather, never met, aspiring author | 1 | |
Passion Economy | The opposite of niche (curiosity-driven) | 1 | |
Personal OS | A personal operating system to guide you | 4 | |
Poetry | Focused on imagery, meter, and sound | 2 | |
Politics of Technology | How power influences the development of tech | 1 | |
Polymath | Seeing principles across disciplines | 1 | |
Pop Culture | Pop culture references | 2 | |
Procedural Generation | Video game technique, spawn details on the fly | ||
Process | Awareness of the way something is created | 4 | |
Product Ideas | Things that I wish existed | 9 | |
Pseudonym | Writing under an alterego | 3 | |
Psychedelics | Mind-expanding | ||
Psychology | The architecture of the mind | ||
Religion | Institutions that make sense of death | ||
Remote Work | Tapping into NYC without being there | 2 | |
Revolutions | Changing of th | ||
Roam | A popular outliner, easily turns into idea-soup | 1 | |
Sentences | The blocks that make up a paragraph | 2 | |
Sex | The first thing to get captured by technology | 2 | |
Simulation Fiction | A strand of sci-fi, society immersed in VR | 2 | |
Social Media | The utopian vision of the Internet went haywire | 4 | |
Social VR | The next generation of social networks | 5 | |
Songwriting | The synthesis of lyrics, chords, rhythm, and harmony | 1 | |
Space | New frontiers in space | 3 | |
Spatial Chat | A video-chat platform with spatial audio | 1 | |
Spotify | Sonic pimps of all music ever recorded, so convenient | 1 | |
Squarespace | Simple websites, but I wouldn’t recommend for writers | 2 | |
Strauss-Howe Generational Theory | Society loops every 80 years | ||
Streams | An idea for a new social media architecture | 4 | |
Studio Culture | A cohort-based course I created around writing | 1 | |
Super.so | How to convert Notion into a real website | 1 | |
Surrealism | Straight from the subconscious, beefheart style | 3 | |
Systems | Interlocking structures with synergy | 3 | |
Terence McKenna | Christopher Columbus of DMT Hyperspace | ||
The Beatles | Songwriting, history, and “Paul is Dead” fiction | 1 | |
The Beats | Generation of naive and radical poets, inventive prose | 1 | |
The Center of Mount Shasta | An abandoned project about a trip to California | 2 | |
The Matrix | Descartes nightmare | 1 | |
The Musings of Gus | “A dumpster-diving punk turned web-developer” | ||
The Writing Studio | An online writing course I run, based on arch design studio | 3 | |
Tiago Forte | Creator of Building a Second Brain | ||
Time Intervals | Strange ways to think about time | 1 | |
Trailer Park Boys | Canadian comedy, first few seasons are great | 1 | |
Transhumanism | Consciousness outgrowing the human body | 2 | |
Tulpa | Imaginary friends for adults (but weirder) | 1 | |
Twitter | Micro-blogging site turned echo-chamber | 2 | |
UFO | Now UAP, potentially AI-powered extraterrestrial drones | 2 | |
User Interface | Visual psychology, engaging with software | 5 | |
Video | Posts of mine that include videos | 3 | |
Virginia Woolf | Writer of Mrs. Dalloway, stream of consciousness | 1 | |
Visual Feedback | Shapes and color to understand writing patterns | 1 | |
Voice | A writer’s fingerprint; personality on the page | 5 | |
VR | I was a VR specialist from 2015-2021 | 7 | |
Web3 | JPEGs with verification checks | 7 | |
Websites | A digital encapsulation of the self | 3 | |
Write of Passage | Writing online to become a citizen of the Internet | 5 | |
Writing | My main focus since December 2020 | Minimum Viable Essay Hunter's Breakfast Myth Maslow's Hierarchy for Writers The Daily Meeze The Center of Mount Shasta TWS-3: Ten Takeaways Invisible Momentum Write For Your Grandkids Hyper Link Frenzy Searching for Sasquatch Online Writing Studios Writer's Cafe in Spatial Chat Beeple's Mosaic Breeding Orphan Words The Feedback Gym Hive Brain | 15 |