writing

  • Over The Next Year

    Over the next year I will be making some online changes to make things easier for me, and my posting routine more reliable. Currently I have this site, and I am on Substack and Twitter(X). (I am on no other… Continue reading

  • For The Writers

    This story is a political allegory. There is a humble guy, lives a quiet life caring for his parents. A team of hackers and con artists come along intent on exploiting the guy. These crooks are all active or retired… Continue reading

  • To Build a Modern Society

    Recently, I read the book “Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain.” by Maryanne Wolf. A very good book that made me think of a piece of my philosophy (Maciolekism) I developed long ago. If… Continue reading

  • Conspiracy Theories And Adaptation

    There are people making choices for us, but we really don’t know who they are or what their intentions are. They are acting and communicating in our name and we are left trying to guess what is going on from… Continue reading

  • Art And Small Talk

    Small talk is like any other art. At one end of the spectrum is the purely superficial chat about the weather or sports just to pass the time. At the other end are chats that have layers of metaphor and… Continue reading

  • Building Better Analogies

    There is a commercial we all must suffer through, as we suffer all commercials. It is the one where Mathew McConaughey is dressed up as a cowboy and pontificates about AI; an analogy where AI is the new “wild west”… Continue reading