Reflections on books, the web, philosophy, and the quiet disciplines that hold a life together.
The Society of the Chatbot
A confession before anything else. My to-read pile has forty-three books in it, and I know the number because I counted them while procrastinating on reading any of them.
Continue readingI, the Jury - Mickey Spillane
MICKEY SPILLANE (1918–2006) was an American crime novelist best known for creating Mike Hammer, the hard-boiled private detective who became an icon of postwar noir. With his terse prose, relentless violence, and uncompromising style, Spillane transformed the detective novel and became one of the bestselling crime writers of the twentieth century.
Continue readingThe Machine Translation Challenge
I took a sentence from an earlier draft of Seven Things I Remember That Never Happened and ran it through ten languages and back.The original: Memory is not an archive of the past but a workshop where we rewrite our o...
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