“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”
— André Gide, Winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature.
We’ve started outsourcing our thinking to machines that can’t even think. This piece is about fixing that. I break down the four types of thinking that matter, why writing is a superpower, and how silence might be the rarest luxury we have
Lately, I keep catching myself wondering if certain blog posts I’m reading were written by AI.
There’s this weird, specific style that feels very ChatGPT, no matter the topic.
Either I’m getting paranoid… or AI-generated writing really is everywhere.
I've been continuously updating my book library for the past couple of weeks. What has changed is that it now also includes all the passages I highlighted in the books. Over time, I hope it will turn my library into a searchable database of insights I can use. (The highlights also synchronise with my notes app of choice.)
A new design, new content formats, a ton of new RSS feeds. Welcome to the redesigned cliophate.wtf.
A collection of rules, thoughts, and ideas I try to live by.
Inspired by “How to Rands,” this is my living guide to how I work best: what helps, what hinders, and how to skip the awkward figuring-each-other-out phase.
After many emails asking how I set up my Boox Palma, here it is: all the tweaks I made to Readwise, KOReader, and Calibre, plus some extra system customizations.