Tag: writing
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Culture Is A Series of Lossy Compression Algorithms
Compression algorithms are all around you in a modern digital life. But you may not actually know what they are, so let me explain: raw data taken from the world is rarely very efficiently packed. So to save file size and computational sanity, most data is compressed. JPEG is an image compression format — it takes […]
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How to Plan for a Change
Planning is an inexact art. Anyone who says different is delusional or a liar. What this means, practically, is that a plan that makes no allowances for slippage, screw-ups, and unexpected setbacks is bound to fail. A plan that doesn’t account for possible causes of failure damns itself to being, at the very best, inexact.
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On the Banality of Profound Truths
If there was one obstacle, beyond laziness, that made me hesitate to get back to writing in more than the few-sentence bursts I regularly produce for Link Banana it was my uncertainty about what of value I could say. It’s not that I don’t think people need to hear things I think that I know–while […]
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Habits Matter
It has been more than a month since I posted here. And before a short streak of three relatively-consecutive posts, it had been nearly a month before that. I say this not to apologize–it’s been far too long for that to be anything but hollow–but to demonstrate my point. Around the start of June of […]
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Consuming and Creating
In school, Sunday’s the day where you have to make up for the procrastinating you did all weekend. Out of school, Sunday’s only the day where you recognize that you’ve done nothing all weekend. Surely this doesn’t hold true for everyone, but my weekends tend to naturally fill themselves with consumption of media. All the […]
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The First Draft
Syma Sees (AND) Finding Forrester was one of those movies. The kind that I enjoy, but can easily see why so many others don’t. It’s the kind of movie light on logic or reality, and heavy on the emotion. And Sean Connery’s character is, well, odd. However you or I feel about it, there’s one […]
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Writing is Useful
This is the second part of a two-part argument that I seem to be constantly having with myself. The first half, Writing is Wasteful, was posted on Tuesday. bookish in north park (CC) The idea that all writings a copy of a copy of a copy is easy and convenient. And because of that, we […]
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Writing is Wasteful
This is the first part of a two-part argument that I seem to be constantly having with myself. The second half, Writing is Useful, will be posted on Thursday. D’arcy Norman If this site exists for one reason, its for me to write. If it exist for a second reason, it’s so I’ll be listened […]
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My Problem with Fiction
Rparle Everywhere I see people who don’t understand how the world works. This includes, but is hardly limited to, when I’m standing in front of the mirror. To my limited understanding, the world is wonderfully complex place full of wonderfully interesting people doing their absolute best to live the most useful lives they can. And […]