{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"Micro.blog - Writing Slowly","home_page_url":"https://micro.blog","feed_url":"https://micro.blog/posts/writingslowly","_microblog":{"about":"https://micro.blog/about/api","id":"4028","username":"writingslowly","bio":"My name’s Richard. I live in Sydney, on the traditional land of Bidjigal people of the Eora nation. Here I write about writing and reading (and what I do when I'm not writing or reading).\n\nI'm writing slowly but may at some point speed up.\n \nConnect with me on micro.blog or at Mastodon @aus.social@writingslowly. On Reddit, I'm @atomicnotes.\n","pronouns":"","is_following":false,"is_you":false,"following_count":221,"discover_count":0},"author":{"name":"Writing Slowly","url":"http://www.writingslowly.com","avatar":"https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2022/4028.jpg"},"items":[{"id":"90848772","content_html":"

Two fascinating articles show quite different sides to Japan:

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Why Japanese companies do so many different things. The internal logic of the world’s strangest corporations

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Deciphering the Hashihara Castle Town Map: The Imaginary Town of MOTOORI Norinaga

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#CorporateCulture #JapaneseHistory #LongReads

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@austingmackell.bsky.social Wait. So now there’s a link between capitalism and fascism? 🤯

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Watched: Resurrection 🍿

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An amazing experience. More fragmented than Bi Gan’s previous movies, but easily as engaging. There were many nods to cinema history, and an article by Xinyuan Wang helped. Essential viewing, and not just for the virtuoso 30-minute-long single shot near the end.

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@microadrian true! I’m also inspipred by Dan Harmon’s advice:

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> ‘Switch from team “I will one day write something good” to team “I have no choice but to write a piece of shit.”’

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Some books on writing:

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Hidalgo, César A. 2025. Infinite Alphabet: and The Laws Of Knowledge. Allen lane.

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Fletcher, Angus. 2022. WonderWorks: Literary Invention and the Science of Stories. London: Swift Press.

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Smith, Emma. 2023. Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers. Penguin Books.

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@isaacgreene It’s hard not to envy those yet to read certain great novels - the sheer wonder that awaits them. One Hunded Years of Solitude is near the top of that list. And I remember feeling similarly about Mark Helprin’s A Soldier of the Great War, which is less well-known by far.

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@tracydurnell thanks - he’s spending his last few days being pampered by our family

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The expert’s trap is where you start thinking of yourself as having gone beyond the need to learn anything new.

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What did the legendary Zen maverick Ikkyū Sōjun teach about overcoming the expert’s trap? Find out in The Paradox of Mastery.

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#ShuHaRi #Learning #Buddhism #ContinuousLearning #Japan

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@Miraz Thak you and yes, it is very real

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The Paradox of Mastery: Why the Expert Must Remain a Beginner \"A : writingslowly.com

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On Friday we learned our cat, who has visited Writing Slowly several times, has a terminal illness, with just weeks to live.

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I’m deeply sad. He has been my close companion through years of working from home. To discover I could feel this way about a cat is a harsh gift, but a gift all the same.

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@cogdog it is a really interesting article isn’t it? Makes me imagine there’s probably a journal for absolutely everything!

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💬 “Our conventional response to all media, namely that it is how they are used that counts, is the numb stance of the technological idiot. For the ‘content’ of a medium is like the juicy piece of meat carried by the burglar to distract the watchdog of the mind.” — Marshall McLuhan

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Whether you’re interested in making your own containers for ‘content’ or in challenging the whole paradigm, the key is to create new ways of being human.

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Read more: What’s the future of creative work without human intent?

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#AmWriting #Creativity #Fediblog #MediaTheory

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@cogdog it’s interesting how our memories of books sometimes connect to the places we read them. My main memory of ZAMM is constantly wondering “what kind of bike was he riding?” because he never said. The book felt different when I found out. Chrome and black and dusty

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Memory isn’t a static recording but a constant act of reconstruction. Every time we revisit a note or a book, we are weaving together the original content with our current environment and past self.

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“We construct and reconstruct our memories every time we attempt to recall them.”

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So how do we decide what’s worth preserving and what we must allow ourselves to forget? Explore the “differential allocation of attentional resources” in this look at the fallibility of memory.

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Link: writingslowly.com/2026/05/1…

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#CognitiveScience #Philosophy #Memory

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Is note-making an “aide memoire” or a replacement for the source? To distill a book into notes on it, is to change our relationship with the original text. Beyond just storing facts we are building a library of our own interpretations. There’s a friction between preservation and occlusion in our digital workflows.

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“When you make notes you forget your reading and replace it with the future opportunity to read again not the original book but your own notes on it.”

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Read more: writingslowly.com/2026/05/1…

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#Zettelkasten #PKM #NoteMaking

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@davoh Glad to see you’re still posting shelfies. I imagine Abie Warburg might approve. It was said of his library: ‘Warburg had chosen and arranged the books like stones from a mosaic of which he had the pattern in his mind.’

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There’s a unique magic in the physical bookshelf. It acts as a spatial memory palace where a spine or a colour can trigger a flood of recollection. ‘Remembering What you Read’\nlooks at why reorganising a library feels like reorganising a mind, and what it really means to be “well-read” in this time of digital summaries and ephemeral content.

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“The book shelves are a kind of ‘memory palace’ for the books themselves. In fact this realisation is quite important to me.”

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#Bookstodon #HomeLibrary #ReadingLife

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Remembering what you read \"A : writingslowly.com

","summary":"One of the chief uses of note-making is to help you to remember what you read.\n\nBut it’s not as simple as imagining your notes are just an ‘aide memoire’.\n\nWhen you make notes you forget your reading and replace it with the future opportunity to read again not the original book but your own notes on...","url":"https://writingslowly.com/2026/05/15/remembering-what-you-read.html","date_published":"2026-05-14T17:00:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Writing Slowly","url":"http://www.writingslowly.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F4028.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"writingslowly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-14 17:00","date_timestamp":1778778000,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89968444","content_html":"

ADHD: not straightforwardly a dysfunction.

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💬 “It’s best understood as an impulsive motivational drive for novel information”.
\n– Anne-Laure Le Cunff, Aeon.

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💬 “We need to build digital worlds worth protecting.”

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— Dr Krista Fisher, on the real manosphere. Womens Agenda

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Tsundoku status alert.

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@Mattiverse Welcome to micro.blog - looking forward to what you share.

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My current mood is: Let me sleep, and only wake up after AI is done destroying everything worthwhile, so I can skip to whatever’s left without having to live through the intervening period of pointless turmoil.

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What’s the future of creative work without human intent?

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What's the future of creative work without human intent? writingslowly.com

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Compare like with like: writingslowly.com

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‘Beginner's mind’ keeps you young — even in your 80s: writingslowly.com

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Notes about notebooks?

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Ulkar Aghayeva writes about the history of laboratory notebooks.

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Aghayeva, U. “A Brief History of Lab Notebooks.” Asimov Press (2026). DOI: 10.62211/52wg-76ye
\nSource: Scott Nesbitt’s The Monday Kickoff - well worth subscribing to.

\n

#notetaking #notebooks #historyofscience

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@joeywingster.bsky.social that’s wonderful. Motion sickness would prevent me from writing like that unfortunately

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@ausrtho Yes, but I’d probably find your location quite exotic, trains or no trains

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@joeywingster.bsky.social you’re not writing while driving are you? I suppose dictation might work. But travel generally seems good for writing

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@lmika Should be easy to arrange!

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I find writing on the train works well. It helps that there’s a good view.\nAnyone else do this?

\n

#writing #notetaking #writingcommunity #photography

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@lmika to settle all disputes, let’s just agree to call it libra pondo again

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@jarrod @manton “You kind of get a sense when the platform vendor is going to compete with you instead of work with you.” — Dave Winer’s observation on the WordPress ‘social’ theme. I hope that’s not so.

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@joshuapsteele most recently? <brennan.day/>. Kind of epitomises the indie web for me: hand crafted, opinionated, eccentric, principled, and above all, worth reading.

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Every Zen garden is unique, but recognizable patterns recur too.

\n

Perhaps it’s the patterns that enable the diversity.

\n\"A\n

I’m the author of Shu Ha Ri: The Japanese Way of Learning, for Artists and Fighters, available now.

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Holy mother of cheeses, the Internet is not made out of content: writingslowly.com

","summary":"Holy mother of cheeses, the Internet is not made out of content.\n\n\"💬 “The Net is not content.\nThere is great content on the Internet. But holy mother of cheeses, the Internet is not made out of content.\nA teenager’s first poem, the blissful release of a long-kept secret, a fine sketch drawn by a pal...","url":"https://writingslowly.com/2026/04/27/holy-mother-of-cheeses-the.html","date_published":"2026-04-27T03:11:25+00:00","author":{"name":"Writing Slowly","url":"http://www.writingslowly.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F4028.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"writingslowly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-27 03:11","date_timestamp":1777259485,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Aus.social/@writingslowly/116474485930974016","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jypc3v5xm7pr74gwex5cm74b/post/3mkh42a5ky52q"]}},{"id":"89073960","content_html":"

The real science behind Project Hail Mary: writingslowly.com

","summary":"Yes, there is some real science behind 📚 Project Hail Mary.\n\nIt’s an enjoyable and successful sci-fi novel and film, but the science fiction is frankly quite a bit more fiction than science.\n\nIt would hardly give away the plot of Project Hail Mary to mention that it has a lot to do with the microbia...","url":"https://writingslowly.com/2026/04/27/the-real-science-behind-project.html","date_published":"2026-04-27T02:39:38+00:00","author":{"name":"Writing Slowly","url":"http://www.writingslowly.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F4028.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"writingslowly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-27 02:39","date_timestamp":1777257578,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"88735699","content_html":"

@JigmeDatse to paraphrase Upton Sinclair,

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It is difficult to get people to understand something, when their likes and subscribes depend upon them not understanding it.

\n

I’ve had a few thankless conversations like that.

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@drwalt worse than ignored:

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> “Every journalist who is not too stupid or full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible” – Janet Malcolm.

\n

Louis Theroux quoted this in an interview with Patrick Raddon Keefe. But then not all writers are journalists

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💬 “For good or ill, a new generation, though raised in the lap of AI, will not be speaking or writing anything like the ‘intelligence’ that raised it.” - Notes on the artificial style of writing.

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#Zettelkasten #LLM #AIPhilosophy #Writing #Notemaking #AIWriting

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@drjlwells I see what you mean - the top level areas are defined, but they’re what you make them. Johnny Decimal seems a bit like PARA - they’re both ways of organising all your digital/written stuff, and your notes (Zettelkasten or whatever) can sit within that framework (or not).

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You have your own peculiar and necessarily limited interests and instead of spreading the net too widely, maybe it’s worth keeping a bit focused on these. But how? Top level categories in my notes.

\n

#PKM #Zettelkasten #notemaking #Writing #WritingSlowly

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@billseitz everything about your site has been inspirational for my TiddlyWiki notebook. To cite just one inspiring post of many: Notice patterns and garden your own private wiki notebook. Thanks!

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@drjlwells in what way is Johnny Decimal bottom-up? I’m not seeing that.

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@JigmeDatse it pains me when people just don’t want to see the Nazi bar. I know we can’t protest everything but still.

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@thoughtshrapnel indeed!

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@mattypenny the famine did have an impact in Strabane, whose population declined from 7,000 to 4,000. A scheme to relieve overcrowded workhouses deported at least six girls from Strabane to Australia, including three in 1848. So yes, quite dark. Irish Famine Memorial

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@thoughtshrapnel

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> all your brain is doing is making links between things. Which is why I don’t have any problem in using LLMs as part of my workflow.

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What of the difference between how the brain makes links, with necessary economy, and how AI does it, profligately? How to triage what links matter?

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