📚 Archives

• ✍️Blog Resurrection

  Using LLMs to pull thousands of old blog posts back from a grave of mangled database text and rotten links

• 🌍Five Questions with Matt Warner

  Matt Warner, president of Atlas Network, talks about promoting global freedom and human flourishing.

• 📚LifeSize by Roland Tiangco

  Here's a fascinating project by Roland Tiangco, inspired by Borges, that combines art and literature into a single printed reproduction of our world's bookshelf.

• 📜The list doesn’t destroy culture, it creates it

  A reflection on the importance of lists in shaping culture and understanding the infinite, inspired by Umberto Eco's insights.

• 🌴Heart of palm

  This careful schematic cross-section of a palm stem evokes striking similarities to Pacific Northwest art despite the palm’s tropical origins. Based on the content, relevant geolocation coordinates for the Malay Peninsula might be approximately

• 🗺️More delicate

  Quoting Elizabeth Bishop.

• 📚Astrid Stampe’s Picture Book, by Hans Christian Andersen

  A glimpse into the charming world of Hans Christian Andersen's picture books for the young and imaginative.

• 📚On the migration of books

  Orhan Pamuk reflects on the meaningful connection between his reading journey and his father's library, evoking thoughts on the books we cherish and share.

• 🌍A breath wafted from Paradise over the human world

  An exploration of how spices from foreign lands captivated the imagination of Medieval Europeans.

• 📚WRONG—

  Reflecting on my experience with _Schindler's List_ and the charm of its historical annotations.

• 📇Edge-notched cards

  An exploration of the forgotten art of organizing knowledge through edge-notched cards, a precursor to modern data sorting methods.