
I've been thinking about what differs a book from something shorter like a blogpost or an essay. It can't be just the length, because if you'd simply put together 50 blogposts and read them after one and another it would still be a whole other experience than reading a book. The appeal of many good […]

The term "art" is very historically contaminated with various ideas that don't resemble what I think when I think about art. One idea is the idea of museums, fine art and art as a thing you're not meant to understand. People somehow listen to music and love the instrumentals of it, which is really s […]

In physics, the underlying laws that create the details we see in the world are often treated as the most fundamental reality. The physical laws exist somewhere, deep down in the structure of the universe, and aren't just tools to explain patterns we tend to see in our day-to-day experience of the w […]