The Curious Engineer

All blogs / Essays / personal

shimmeringvoid

shimmeringvoid.substack.com

think clearly, feel deeply. Click to read shimmeringvoid, by Ben Follington, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

Essays / personalGame developmentAI / ML

’21’22’23’24’25’26
Posts
61 from 18 May 2021 to 5 Apr 2026
Posting
now and then (4 in the last year)
Kind
personal blog
Feed
https://shimmeringvoid.substack.com/feed

2026 3

  1. Chasing Ghosts
  2. The Progress Monster
  3. 2025 in Review

2025 13

  1. Dialogical Design
  2. Creative Automata
  3. Interfaces are languages
  4. The Physics of Creativity
  5. A Game of Thoughts
  6. Digital Shamanism
  7. Dream Walking
  8. Salience Landscaping
  9. The Ambiguity Spectrum
  10. The Certainty Trap
  11. Thinking with the world
  12. Why Details Matter
  13. Crystallised Authenticity

2024 4

  1. Perspective Engines
  2. Driving and Dragging Loops
  3. Everything is a Mirror
  4. Metacognitive Design

2023 8

  1. Sculpting Attention
  2. The Shape of an Idea
  3. The Structure of Wisdom
  4. Understanding Everything
  5. A Practical Guide to Gardening Ideas
  6. The Paradox of Progress
  7. Welcome to Bizarroworld
  8. 2022 by the Numbers

2022 21

  1. Authentic Emptiness
  2. Conservation of Effort
  3. Digital Adventures
  4. Play-first Software
  5. Software can be fun
  6. Focusing
  7. Try To Get Confused
  8. Engineering and Evolving Ideaspace
  9. Tools for Forgetting
  10. Tension and freedom
  11. Start before you’re ready
  12. Faith is good, actually?
  13. Standing everywhere
  14. Climbing through the window
  15. Garbage in, garbage out
  16. Challenge and flow
  17. Always falling behind
  18. Twists, turns and ruts
  19. Introducing: HumanKit
  20. the path ahead
  21. 2021 annual review

2021 12

  1. living up to your potential
  2. the cosmic dice
  3. the y2k bug
  4. the dark night of the soul
  5. kicking and screaming
  6. emotional openness
  7. no-one ever really changes
  8. if i were you
  9. contentment vs. ambition
  10. actually being happier now
  11. systematic simplicity
  12. a place to be human