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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 28 May 2019 06:29:04 +0000 (23:29 -0700)]
"The Source of Our Power"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 13 May 2019 00:04:03 +0000 (17:04 -0700)]
check in: hopefully it for May
May is Math and Wellness Month and I don't want to be thinking about
all this, so hopefully I've written enough notes down such that I feel
expurgiated—I don't have to keep obsessively thinking about the thing
if I can trust that I've written down enough notes that I can pick up
again in June when I'm healthier and less heartbroken
(Times this commit has been `--amend`ed counter: 4)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 2 May 2019 05:12:45 +0000 (22:12 -0700)]
"Hiatus"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 30 Apr 2019 06:13:10 +0000 (23:13 -0700)]
drafting "'I Tell Myself'"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 29 Apr 2019 05:05:22 +0000 (22:05 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 27 Apr 2019 21:00:49 +0000 (14:00 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 13 Apr 2019 23:42:22 +0000 (16:42 -0700)]
"Where to Draw the Boundaries?" linkpost
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 13 Apr 2019 23:39:16 +0000 (16:39 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 18 Mar 2019 06:58:25 +0000 (23:58 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 19 Feb 2019 03:11:30 +0000 (19:11 -0800)]
and one more thing
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 19 Feb 2019 02:56:18 +0000 (18:56 -0800)]
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Hopefully checking in the notes for "Social Strategy Notes" for some
future contiguous writing day will help me stop obsessing and let me
focus for the next week, which is supposed to be about code.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 15 Feb 2019 22:08:27 +0000 (14:08 -0800)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 13 Feb 2019 19:40:34 +0000 (11:40 -0800)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 6 Feb 2019 22:36:49 +0000 (14:36 -0800)]
micro check-in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 6 Feb 2019 21:13:17 +0000 (13:13 -0800)]
check in notes and Twitter fantasy edits
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 2 Feb 2019 04:34:00 +0000 (20:34 -0800)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 30 Jan 2019 07:54:14 +0000 (23:54 -0800)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 28 Jan 2019 07:07:40 +0000 (23:07 -0800)]
"Use It or Lose It"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 27 Jan 2019 01:58:20 +0000 (17:58 -0800)]
better post spacing
I was eager to just shove stuff out the door, but the point of filler
posts is to provide a more regular update schedule when you can't
manage that with effortposting
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 27 Jan 2019 01:03:06 +0000 (17:03 -0800)]
queue Interludes XVI–XVIII
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 20 Jan 2019 22:06:44 +0000 (14:06 -0800)]
drafting "Social Strategy Notes"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 20 Jan 2019 22:06:21 +0000 (14:06 -0800)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 20 Jan 2019 04:28:38 +0000 (20:28 -0800)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 20 Jan 2019 04:21:57 +0000 (20:21 -0800)]
cache a Tweet thread for August
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 20 Jan 2019 03:52:11 +0000 (19:52 -0800)]
drafting "The Social Construction of Reality"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 20 Jan 2019 01:32:06 +0000 (17:32 -0800)]
"The Dialectic": adjust the progressive narrative paraphrase
If "small effect size" is the Hydeian counter-counternarrative, then
the level-one narrative shouldn't talk about them.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 20 Jan 2019 00:02:41 +0000 (16:02 -0800)]
check in raw draft material for "A Human's (Abridged) Guide"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 19 Jan 2019 23:16:30 +0000 (15:16 -0800)]
post facto edits to metablogging
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 19 Jan 2019 22:52:33 +0000 (14:52 -0800)]
publish "The Dialectic"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 19 Jan 2019 22:41:49 +0000 (14:41 -0800)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 12 Jan 2019 19:34:52 +0000 (11:34 -0800)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 7 Jan 2019 04:57:13 +0000 (20:57 -0800)]
words mean things; you can't just repeat a cached phrase out of context
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 1 Jan 2019 22:08:38 +0000 (14:08 -0800)]
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I really want to use that "Quarantine" quote somewhere, even if my
planned reply to the "... Not Coming Out" post isn't happening
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 27 Dec 2018 07:54:44 +0000 (23:54 -0800)]
acknowledge an irony
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 27 Dec 2018 07:46:36 +0000 (23:46 -0800)]
metablogging
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 26 Dec 2018 00:54:38 +0000 (16:54 -0800)]
drafting "The Dialectic"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 25 Dec 2018 23:59:23 +0000 (15:59 -0800)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 9 Dec 2018 20:45:24 +0000 (12:45 -0800)]
drafting "I Mean, Yes"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 9 Dec 2018 07:29:35 +0000 (23:29 -0800)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 9 Dec 2018 07:20:22 +0000 (23:20 -0800)]
drafting "I Mean, Yes, I Agree"
Today didn't feel that great, but netting more than 1100 words is
definitely good by historical standards! (Even during my sabbatical
that was allgedly for the purpose of writing, I averaged up with fewer
published words than this per two weeks!) Tomorrow is going to be busy
(reading group, Solstice), but maybe I can net a lot of words in the
morning?!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 8 Dec 2018 16:38:57 +0000 (08:38 -0800)]
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check in stub provisionally titled "The Writer's Room"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 26 Nov 2018 05:44:06 +0000 (21:44 -0800)]
drafting "I Mean, Yes"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 24 Nov 2018 22:19:42 +0000 (14:19 -0800)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 24 Nov 2018 07:02:33 +0000 (23:02 -0800)]
drafting "I Mean, Yes, I Agree"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 24 Nov 2018 04:54:47 +0000 (20:54 -0800)]
remove unnecessary qualifier
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 24 Nov 2018 01:43:28 +0000 (17:43 -0800)]
drafting "I Mean, Yes, I Agree"
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 19 Nov 2018 07:24:02 +0000 (23:24 -0800)]
drafting "I Mean, Yes, I Agree"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 18 Nov 2018 15:12:50 +0000 (07:12 -0800)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 15 Nov 2018 17:30:17 +0000 (09:30 -0800)]
drafting "I Mean, Yes, I Agree"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 12 Nov 2018 16:35:47 +0000 (08:35 -0800)]
drafting "I Mean, Yes, I Agree"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 12 Nov 2018 04:44:21 +0000 (20:44 -0800)]
ax the "blame for misunderstanding" footnote
It's too passive-aggressive, and not adding a lot of value, besides
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 12 Nov 2018 04:42:43 +0000 (20:42 -0800)]
drafting "I Mean, Yes, I Agree"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 11 Nov 2018 07:48:41 +0000 (23:48 -0800)]
rename memetic-capture stub and add epigraph
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 11 Nov 2018 00:19:27 +0000 (16:19 -0800)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 5 Nov 2018 07:56:48 +0000 (23:56 -0800)]
drafting "I Mean, Yes, I Agree"
The net wordcount gain here isn't great, but at least we've got the
skeleton in place, and I just need to finish shoveling text around?
Call it a week?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 4 Nov 2018 16:40:26 +0000 (08:40 -0800)]
check in notes
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 3 Nov 2018 17:44:56 +0000 (10:44 -0700)]
drafting money section for "I Mean, Yes"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 2 Nov 2018 15:33:49 +0000 (08:33 -0700)]
outlining for "I Mean, Yes, I Agree that Man"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 29 Oct 2018 05:06:47 +0000 (22:06 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 29 Oct 2018 04:58:07 +0000 (21:58 -0700)]
non-404 (for now??) "Power of the Powerless" link
A friend of the blog informed me via Reddit PM that this link had gone
stale.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 29 Oct 2018 04:55:04 +0000 (21:55 -0700)]
edits to "Sticker Prices"
"An" anecdote.
Despite wanting to keep the focus on me and my feelings about the
Narrative (rather than picking on my anonymous interlocutor who could
have been anyone in the Current Year, really), the "outgroup
homogeneity" link opportunity is too perfect to pass up
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 22 Oct 2018 05:09:48 +0000 (22:09 -0700)]
queue "Sticker Prices", "Interlude XIV", "Laser 9", "Interlude XV"
Hopefully this leading stack of M-W-F-M posts will set a precedent
that the blog is a going concern!
I feel a little bit bad about the awkward writing in "Sticker Prices"
(there's an interesting writing problem that I'm trying to solve there
that, uncharacteristically, I don't want to be too transparent about),
but whatever, it's not that important of a post, and I want to get
something out about how I felt at the conference
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 21 Oct 2018 06:06:44 +0000 (23:06 -0700)]
lottery Interlude
(This one is from the notes transcribed from one of my 2007 notebooks,
"We Have Better Graphs"!)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 20 Oct 2018 23:56:52 +0000 (16:56 -0700)]
draft "Laser 9"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 20 Oct 2018 20:21:36 +0000 (13:21 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 10 Oct 2018 06:31:13 +0000 (23:31 -0700)]
another (fictional, for now) sticker story; bump interludes
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 8 Oct 2018 15:50:14 +0000 (08:50 -0700)]
drafting "Sticker Prices" (better title)
I need to get my writing momentum back! Ship this soon!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 8 Oct 2018 00:48:55 +0000 (17:48 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 2 Oct 2018 03:36:38 +0000 (20:36 -0700)]
publish "The Information Theory of Passing"
Thanks, Sophia! <3
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 30 Sep 2018 19:51:48 +0000 (12:51 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 29 Sep 2018 15:40:14 +0000 (08:40 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 19 Sep 2018 15:33:41 +0000 (08:33 -0700)]
refine focus of the third idea
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 19 Sep 2018 15:21:07 +0000 (08:21 -0700)]
split "Scattered ..." into three post ideas
I'm not happy with any of these titles, but that's not important now.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 17 Sep 2018 04:44:25 +0000 (21:44 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 17 Sep 2018 04:43:48 +0000 (21:43 -0700)]
"Categories Were Made": anchor site for "different kinds of women" objection
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 17 Sep 2018 04:42:57 +0000 (21:42 -0700)]
drafting "Scattered ..." (just as a dumping pad for raw material)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 16 Sep 2018 15:15:52 +0000 (08:15 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 2 Sep 2018 19:22:09 +0000 (12:22 -0700)]
drafting "Scattered Personal Reflections ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 2 Sep 2018 06:31:46 +0000 (23:31 -0700)]
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