May 2019

4 posts

Ideas

This is my idea incubator. It's easy to build up a body of work if you keep a collection of limbs.

Gift Routine

2021-03-17T14:11:44-0700 updated 2020-12-26T12:30:42-0800

Suppose I want to give a gift to person P. I'd like to be able to call up the history of my interactions with P, in as many channels as possible. I'd also like to be simultaneously call up my current finances, including an assessment of whether I have any store-specific credits which would suit their interests. (For instance, I've got $50 of credit for Lululemon fitness wear, which I'm never going to use on myself, but which I'd want the computer to show me when planning a gift for a girlfriend or female friend.)

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Favorites

  • The Tao of D&D, by Alexis Smolensk (along with his Patreon-members-only blog The Higher Path, of which I am a supporter.) I consider Alexis the world's foremost practitioner of DMing. He has written skillfully and at length on every topic related to running roleplaying games.

  • Gwern Branwen is an independent writer and researcher with deeper and wider interests than anyone else I know of. I admire him for his peerless productivity on a vast range of topics.

  • The Scholar's Stage, by Tanner Greer, is well worth your time, and I believe it so strongly that I support him on Patreon. In the author's words, Scholar's Stage is a forum to discuss the intersections of history, behavioral science, and strategic thought, with an emphasis on East and Southeast Asian affairs. Try starting with "On Days of Disorder".

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