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30 August
From one piece Narrative technology 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A story's quality depends on whether it engages and satisfies the reader, not on the tool used to write it.Their words
What makes a story good isn't whether it was written with a quill, a pen, a typewriter, a word processor, or Claude. What makes a story good is whether it entertains and moves the reader, whether they want to keep reading it and feel satisfied when they reach the end.
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Right now, we're in the "animated photographs" stage of AI. People are using it to bring characters to life, explore interactive fiction, and generate 3D worlds, but these are awkward first steps.
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The basic tools of storytelling remain timeless, but technology determines what form a story can take.Their words
The fundamental tools of storytelling like character and plot are timeless, but technology governs the shape stories take.
2 August
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Books endure alongside newer media because they have unique affordances that other media have not replicated.Their words
Books have survived the arrival of radio, movies, tv, the internet, phones, and AI because they have unique affordances that newer mediums have yet to infringe upon
28 June
From one piece Write what only you can write 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The only new thing is that writing about anything else is less valuable than it used to be, and it was never that valuable in the first place.
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If we pretend to be normal, we doom all other weirdos to loneliness, forgetting that each of us is weird in our own way, and that what is weird about us is precisely what others find most interesting.
31 May
From one piece Television forgot how stories work 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Science fiction's tendency to cast AI as a monster shapes how foundational AI models are trained and perceived.Their words
AIs have read every science-fiction story about AI, and most of those stories cast AI as a monster. It's hard to imagine that that framing doesn't influence foundational models, and fun to imagine how we might leverage narrative to reframe the relationship between humans and machines.
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A good story needs a beginning, a middle, and an end, and I'm sick of watching well-cast, beautifully shot, expensively produced series that are all middle.
26 April
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Acting on an idea reveals its true potential in a way that merely thinking about it cannot.Their words
Every good idea wants to set off a chain reaction, but can't do it from inside your head. Only by acting on an idea can you discover its true potential, and yours.
29 March
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When everyone else is chasing scale, choosing to make something singular is a powerful differentiator.
1 March
From one piece Chains of loving care 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Doing so will unlock new levels of understanding and appreciation.
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When you read text, most of the time you don't actually look at each letter, instead your eye automatically recognizes the shape of the entire word or phrase.
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Every manufactured object embodies a long chain of decisions made by many different people.Their words
Manufactured objects are physical manifestations of long chains of decisions made by countless contributors.
25 January
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The internet may have disrupted newspapers, magazines, music, and Hollywood, and yet it's 2026 and book sales continue to slowly, steadily grow.
28 December 2025
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TrustTheir words
Trust by Hernan Diaz is an onion of a novel in which every chapter peels back a layer to reveal yet more beneath. Following the meteoric rise of a Wall Street financier in the early 20th century, the intricately plotted story will seduce you, transport you, stimulate you, mislead you, and, ultimately, move you.
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The Quantum ThiefTheir words
The Jean le Flambeur trilogy by Hannu Rajaniemi—The Quantum Thief, The Fractal Prince, and The Causal Angel—may be the most ambitious science-fiction story I've ever read.
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The Thursday Murder ClubTheir words
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman is a delightful whodunnit set at a retirement home in the English countryside. Great characters. Fun twists. An endearing sense of humor. Nothing fancy or experimental, just a pleasure to read (and what more can you ask from a book, really?). If, like me, you enjoy mysteries, you'll be in good hands with Osman.
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PlaygroundTheir words
Playground by Richard Powers is a strange and wonderful novel set (mostly) on a remote atoll in French Polynesia that follows the tangled lives of an environmental advocate, a sculptor, a tech entrepreneur, and a brilliant bookworm trying to escape the grinding poverty of Chicago's South Side. The richly drawn characters drive the story, but what I love most about the book is that it's a love letter to the ocean with prose that comes closer than anything else I've read to capturing what it feels like to, for example, dive a thriving coral reef.
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GhostmanTheir words
Ghostman by Roger Hobbs is a crime thriller about robbing a Malaysian bank and an Atlantic City casino. Riveting characters. A gut-punch of a story. I love a good heist, and this one is bristling with technical details that make you wonder whether the author has some secrets of his own.
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The Player of GamesTheir words
The Player of Games by Ian M. Banks is about a champion board-game player who gets roped into an espionage operation infiltrating an alien culture where political power is determined by the outcome of a uniquely complex strategy game. Set in a far-future human civilization run by a constellation of (mostly) benevolent and inscrutable AIs, Banks's science fiction is more relevant than ever.
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The Spy Who Came in From the ColdTheir words
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John le Carré is a perfect espionage novel: tight, taught, twisty, and thought-provoking. Le Carré brings the subtle machinations of intelligence operations to vivid life, illustrating their geopolitical ramifications and human cost with equal care.
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Jonathan Livingston SeagullTheir words
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach is a beautiful fable about a seagull who wants to fly for the pure joy of flight, rather than simply to find food, as most gulls do. Ostracized from his flock for his eccentric behavior, Jonathan embarks on a quest for aerodynamic perfection that doubles as a moving spiritual allegory. You've never read a book quite like this one before, and it'll stick with you long after you reach the end.
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BreakneckTheir words
Breakneck by Dan Wang takes you on a fascinating journey through China's engineering state, juxtaposing it against America's lawyerly society in an effort to reveal what each country should learn from the other. I've been a keen reader of Dan's personal blog for many years and am delighted to report that this book, his first, features everything I love most about his writing: his unbounded curiosity, thoughtful analysis, compelling storytelling, self-awareness, offbeat sense of humor, and insights born of lived experience.
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Jurassic ParkTheir words
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton is a surprisingly weird and weirdly underrated novel given how many copies it sold and the popularity of the blockbuster franchise it spawned. The story weaves together many apparently disparate threads and there are extensive speculative digressions into the biotechnology, business interests, and institutional dynamics that make the park possible and its dissolution inevitable. If the movie is supremely entertaining, the book is supremely thought-provoking.
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There Is No Antimemetics DivisionTheir words
There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm is a mind-bending psychological thriller about a secret agency tasked with fighting dangerous "antimemes"—ideas that refuse to be remembered. Plenty of stories start with a clever high-concept premise and just let it play out. This one pushes its premise to extremes I never imagined possible, ratcheting up an astonishing amount of tension along the way.
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