The Free Monoid

Gemlog posts

2022-04-28 Winding down old dreams

2022-04-17 A New Job?

2022-04-11 Quitting

2022-04-03 Still burned out

2022-03-29 Burned out and depressed

2022-03-21 Tired and quiet

2022-03-08 The why/how of teaching creative coding?

2022-02-25 Why I've lost my sympathy for cryptocurrency projects

2022-02-21 The problem of scaling

2022-02-16 Teasing out different kinds of permacomputing

2022-02-08 Book Review: 4000 Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

2022-02-01 Five Questions for February

2022-01-24 re: the meaning of offline?

2022-01-21 Book Review: Make Time

2022-01-20 Stewing on spiderwebs and social media

2022-01-19 My love/hate relationship with stoicism

2022-01-12 RE: Burning out after six weeks

2021-12-31 Decentralization, phlogs, and other things

2021-12-26 Protocol pluralism

2021-12-17 Re; Stuck in a loop

2021-12-17 Hopeful pessimism & resisting big tech

2021-12-16 Diving down the gopherholes

2021-12-15 When gloom and doom is warranted: on web3

2021-12-01 Ephmera and *logging

2021-11-29 Holes in your program (re: azorius vs simic at the compiler)

2021-11-28 Computational Asceticism? Computational Hedonism!

2021-11-23 Resisting ableism and ecofascism (re: Ecofascism and lifeboat ethics)

2021-11-22 Implementing Salvage Computing: Rough Thoughts II

2021-11-21 Implementing Salvage Computing: Rough Thoughts

2021-11-21 How NFTs undermine the beauty of procgen

2021-11-2 Failure and chances

2021-10-30 Re: Vodka and Cigarettes

2021-10-29 Burning out

2021-08-10 Book review: The Data Detective

2021-08-07 Torn attention

2021-08-06 Advocating for Gemini

2021-08-01 Rebuilding yourself

2021-07-27 Book review: How to do nothing

2021-06-12 Book review: Statistical Physics for Babies

2021-04-12 Half-formed Thoughts: Neil Postman's Technopoly

2021-03-19 Book Review: Thinking in Bets

2021-03-18 Leaving social media