This week
- 27 May, 2026 One of the things I like best about blogs is that posts stick around (or at least they should). I enjoy scrolling through historic posts of bloggers and reading about what they were thinking about 1, 5, or even 10 years ago—if I'm lucky. I've noticed that my most...
- Very recently, I was hunting for a new TV show and clicked on Apple TV, drawn in by the buzz surrounding Margo Has Money Troubles. I launched the first episode and got hooked by the new intro logo. It caught my eye because it felt weirdly alive. There was a specific, imperfect...
Last week
- I’ve been slowly listening to Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger. I like his practicality. He’s never trying to be overly academic, as if he needs to prove how smart he is. He says Berkshire’s success doesn’t come from them solving hard...
- May 1, 2025 Magic the Gathering format: Fun 40 During the Beasts of the Bay's "Quest for Urza's Chalice" event of 2026, a side tournament proposed to revive the late 90s. Custom boosters were distributed and the 80+ participants were invited to build a deck of 40 cards. Trading...
- Krakow airport. Or, to give it its full official name, Krakow Balice John Paul II International Airport. Or, to give it its full name in Polish, which we probably should, because it is in Poland, Międzynarodowy Port Lotniczy im. Jana Pawła II Kraków-Balice. Or, to give it as...
Two weeks ago
- Here’s Scott Jenson in his insightful piece “The Ma of a New Machine”: the chatbot interface [makes us] feel like deep cognitive work is happening. But the interface is fundamentally reactive. It spits complex text at you, you skim it quickly, and you immediately type a reaction...
- May 11, 2026 For almost 20 years I’ve maintained a journal for my family. I recently met someone interested in this practice, so I’m documenting it here for both them and anyone else that might benefit from it. Why I journal Our memories are not only terrible, but they’re...
- I started running about a year ago. I had always hated the idea of it. I started anyway because I needed some exercise and running was the only thing I could practically fit in. No gym, no kit faff, no booking anything. Put shoes on, leave house. For the first six months I did...
About a month ago
- What a month! GitHub went down six million times, eleven thousand Vercel security holes have been unveiled, Copilot doesn’t accept new signups due to a super unsustainable business model (finally someone admitted it), Anthropic landed on top of Hacker News billions of times due...
about 1 month ago
- On the latest episode of Wake Up Excited!, I got to talk with my friend, fellow traveler, and recent collaborator, Ben Callahan. Ben and I met at BDConf many many moons ago, and since then we’ve shared many adventures together, […]...
- 22 Apr, 2026 I've noticed that travel has become, of late, an act of collecting places. I've literally heard people referring to visiting a place as doing that place, as in "Have you done Japan?", assuming that one can do an entire country, and once that country is done it...
- I live in a weird place. Happily, it’s often a good type of weird. Sadly, it’s also a place where, in general, motorists aren’t very concerned with things like “obeying laws” or “not hitting people”. Recently, there’s been a lot of consternation around bike lanes. I won’t go...
- Speed has become the primary virtue of the modern world. Everything is sacrificed to it. Move fast (and break things, not as a goal but as a consequence). Wisdom requires allowing yourself to be undone by experience: An opinion dismantled by reality. An artifact torn apart by...
about 2 months ago
- Last night I saw Central Square Theater’s excellent production of Breaking the Code. It’s about Alan Turing, who made a monumental contribution to both my profession and the fate of free democracies. Well worth seeing if you’re in the Boston area this month....
- The World Wide Web is one of the greatest inventions of humanity. This medium gave me the opportunity to do what I do, made me passionate about it, taught me so many things and gave me so many laughs. In many contexts this saying sounds cliché, but without the internet this...
- I’ve gone a lot of hard and scary experiences that’s made me deeply value stability. After enduring varied traumas, I really turned on the afterburners to make up for being ripped away from my own life and to rebuild a […]...
- I’ve watched a billion hours of YouTube and I’ve noticed a common trend: Whether that’s a drawing, a video game, a song, a cake, or a whole-ass off-grid house; I’ve learned that it’s fun to watch people make something. Since the beginning of humanity, the act of slapping two...
- It’s a secret to everyone! This post is for RSS subscribers only. Read more about RSS Club. I’ve heard the term “Ozempic face” for awhile. People have opinions about that one, but I tend to feel like we should be comfortable with bodies changing. There’s also “Ozempic butt” and...
- I used to post a lot of stuff on Twitter when it was good. It’s all still on there somewhere, and I have archives of it all, but I’m reposting this thread, which I originally wrote back in 2019. Partly because I dug it out of some archives tonight and thought “hey, that’s not...
- I’m Robin Sloan, a writer, printer, & manufacturer. The best thing to do here is sign up for my email newsletter: This website doesn’t collect any information about you or your reading. It aspires to the speed and privacy of the printed page. Don’t miss the colophon. Hony...
2 months ago
- See below for links to recent things that have made me think. It’s quite the mix of mediums (animated videos, short posts, letters, and 6-hour podcasts), but it wasn’t until I gathered them that I noticed a recurring theme: sacrifice Sometimes the world imposes constraints on...
- Parkinson’s Law is mainly interpreted as “people fill the time available”. That line was really only a hook. The original paper is really about how organisations create extra work and headcount for themselves, regardless of whether there is more genuinely useful work to do. As...
- March 25, 2026 Somewhere, some content specialist has the rather tough job of writing a monthly newsletter about alumin(i)um, and, honestly … they are doing a great job! I read the newsletter This is a sincere rec for Norsk Hydro’s newsletter—it’s fun, and more...
- 19 Mar, 2026 I was recently asked on a podcast what my biggest game-changer was, whether it be a habit, way of thinking, purchase, or change of context. I didn't need to fish around for an answer, since I already know my biggest game-changer: becoming a day person. By this I...
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