mini-posts

these are miniature blog posts that don’t clutter up your rss feed. perhaps they are seedligs in my digital garden; perhaps this is just a way for me to pretend i don’t secretly pine to post on social media once more.

there is no way for you to know if there are new mini-posts yet. mostly i built this as an in-between my mental notes, my paper notes, and a full-blown blog post.

2025-06-14

why don’t they just put a clearly labeled sign on chesterton’s fence describing what it does and why you shouldn’t take it down?

2025-06-13

alan kay’s original vision is that a computer is a bicycle for your mind. it’s a way to amplify your natural intellect and go further.

i like this analogy a lot, because bicycles also happen to be very friendly for the environment. i don’t just mean the climate, i mean the built environment as well. a trip to the netherlands should prove this to you.

but bicycles still have externalities. (for example, also in the netherlands, i believe it’s common to leave two or three bikes around town, which clogs up bike parking, which is why governments are now promoting bike share and transit as well as building out some impressive bike parking facilities.) plus, sometimes i don’t want to bike. which leaves me to think: what is public transit for your mind?

a library, perhaps? a community of interested computer users? a communal computer like dynamicland?