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Other stuff that happened this year

Happy boxing day! Currently reading; thoughts on typora

Since becoming a nerd I've started using the following softwares

My summary of Hegel, Marx, Schopenhauer, the popular novel, economic history, and everything else I read this year

Not an awards eligibility post, just some random year-end back-patting

Might be switching to PC

Present-mindedness

Comparing yourself to other people is a useful defense mechanism

Gaddis's Recognitions; the curse of the auto-didact; what to read after Marx

Random thoughts on writing sci-fi

Capsule reviews, Aug 25: a few podcasts and a book on self-education

Poetry is there for the person who's capable of reading it

I revise using a complicated schema that only I understand

Writing about a collective

Nothing anyone else thinks about your reading really matters

Marx's Capital; Kurt Andersen's Evil Geniuses; and...some other books

Over the next few years you’re gonna hear a lot of theories on where inflation comes from, and here’s mine

How did freeholders in medieval times get their land?

Some writing news, also capsule reviews of two nonfiction books you probably won't care about (they're on adoption and on Jack Welch)

Links: Russian formalism and the terrible education at Eton

I wish critics would engage more with the meat of problematic ideas

Spent an hour yesterday trying to understand when the yeoman class disappeared in England

My writing to reading ratio is about 1 to 4, I think

Writers who fake it

Tired of the incredible amount of lying in public life

Have an essay up on LitHub about money and literary fiction

The reason literary critics are obsessed with wokeness and cancel culture

Finished Hegel, moved on to Adam Smith

What I'm working on these days

My relationship to bias against trans people in the publishing industry

A little log of my writing progress on this draft

Getting close to the end of this revision

Am back, have been reading so much Walter Scott

Placed a story in American Short Fiction

Pet Sematary

I write book. I book writer

Lots of small things coming out sometime this year

I struggle to make time during the working day to read

Hegel helps me with the concept of having babies

Adventures with dead German guys