Aether Mug
The brain is a tool.
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- 122 from 18 Aug 2022 to 22 Oct 2026
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2026 18
- A Map, a Toolbox, a Convergence
- Please Don't Shame the AI Writers
- Backgrounding My Way to Japan
- Presenting the Foldable Tractatus
- GenAI Is a Lens into Humanity
- Text Is My Gimmick
- The King's Great Fortune
- The Bestiary Grows
- Anatomy of Augmented Thought
- AeMug Chat #2 / Experience.Computer Interview
- AeMug Chat #1 / Aether Mug Evolves
- I Witnessed the Birth of a Tiny World
- Culture Is the Mass-Synchronization of Framings
- Year Two
- Never Slide Out of the Day
- Darwin El Naturalista
- Darwin the Witness
- Darwin the Man of His Times
2025 49
- Darwin the Voyager
- Carving Nature at Your Joints
- Darwin the Fun-Loving Young Fellow
- Cow Ontologies
- Purpose from First Principles
- Purpose Essay Now on Plankton Valhalla
- My Notes on: When Ants Are Smarter Than People
- Roam
- Linear Algebra Explains Why Some Words Are Effectively Untranslatable
- Steinbeck on Teleology
- Process World, Object-Oriented Mind
- 26 Easy Steps to Taming Your Smartphone Addiction
- Visualizing Framings
- Strive as It Might
- Shake Up Your Boundaries
- What's the Deal With Counterfeit People?
- Hi No Youjin
- Claude Sonnet Is Teaching Me English
- There Is Thinking and There Is Thinking and There Is Thinking
- Famous Cognitive Psychology Experiments that Failed to Replicate
- I Used to Know How to Write in Japanese
- Do You Remember What You Read?
- A Pocket-Size Checklist of Thinking Errors
- New article on Nautilus Magazine
- Is It Bad to Have a Parrot Speak for You?
- Human Stigmergy
- How to Organize Your Thoughts with a Simple Bullet List
- Water Lilies, Water Lilies Everywhere
- Are We Losing Control?
- I Like the Sound of How You Look at Me
- I Do Not Remember My Life and It's Fine
- I'll Take a Short Blogging Break
- Determinate Self-Sabotage, or Obsessive Connoisseurship?
- Replaced
- Meditations on the Color of Pee
- What if Gratitude Was Built Into the Grammar?
- Case Study: Is There a Strange Culture War Over AI Art?
- Breathing Through Your Belly Button
- Vibe Check UX
- An Aphantasic's Observations on the Imagination of Shapes
- Interview on People and Blogs
- Living in a Real World, Acting in Imaginary Ones
- Matsuri's Grown-Up World
- Rationality Fails at the Edge
- Whatever a Man or Woman Was Able to Accomplish Before, You Can Accomplish, Too
- Year One
- We Need a Sense of Systemic Perspective
- Primitive Atlas of Glass Circuits
- The Luxurious Pain of Using My Time
2024 46
- A Kanji Always Pays Her Debts
- See the Living Loops
- My Head as a Lake
- A Framing and Model About Framings and Models
- Presenting Visual Koans
- Ten Books That Transformed Me
- New Plankton Valhalla Essay!
- Recursion, Tidy Stars, and Water Lilies
- Normality and Surprise in an Image-Free Mind
- Ballistic Moments of Weightlessness
- Reading Blood Meridian with Aphantasia
- Philosophy Is the Battle Against the Bad Framing Kraken
- A List of Introspective Descriptions
- The Odysseus Black Box
- Close Reading of a Modern Japanese Vignette
- You Don't Have Time to Read Books That Won't Change Your Life
- Boxed
- Blimp Blues
- A Black-Box View of Life
- In Japanese You Need a Dictionary to Count Things
- New Aphantasia Article on Nautilus
- Seamanship of Life
- Blowing Against the Fog of War
- Jack of All Trades, Master of Something
- Aphantasia Is No Creativity-Killer
- POSIWID
- "Bad" Framings
- Borges on Chaos Theory
- Human Language Is Not a Network
- Is There Anything Untranslatable?
- Hills Not Walls
- They Made Us
- A Medium-Agnostic Taxonomy of Notifications
- Language is a Bottleneck for Thought
- The Beautiful Dissociation of the Japanese Language
- You Impersonate What You Think You Are
- A Fundamental Framing of Human Language
- Don't Think and Write, They Say
- Aphantasia
- A Framing Is a Choice of Boundaries
- Software Projects Will Be Late
- Boundaries Are in the Eye of the Beholder
- Internal Model Translation Table
- Conversational Humor Is Funny Only After You've Seen It Click
- Embedded Prophesy Devices
- Designing for Emergence