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5 years agocheck in: hopefully it for May
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 13 May 2019 00:04:03 +0000 (17:04 -0700)]
check in: hopefully it for May

May is Math and Wellness Month and I don't want to be thinking about
all this, so hopefully I've written enough notes down such that I feel
expurgiated—I don't have to keep obsessively thinking about the thing
if I can trust that I've written down enough notes that I can pick up
again in June when I'm healthier and less heartbroken

(Times this commit has been `--amend`ed counter: 4)

5 years ago"Hiatus"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 2 May 2019 05:12:45 +0000 (22:12 -0700)]
"Hiatus"

5 years agodrafting "'I Tell Myself'"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 30 Apr 2019 06:13:10 +0000 (23:13 -0700)]
drafting "'I Tell Myself'"

5 years agocheck in
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5 years ago"Where to Draw the Boundaries?" linkpost
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 13 Apr 2019 23:42:22 +0000 (16:42 -0700)]
"Where to Draw the Boundaries?" linkpost

5 years agocheck in
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5 years agoand one more thing
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 19 Feb 2019 03:11:30 +0000 (19:11 -0800)]
and one more thing

5 years agocheck in
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Hopefully checking in the notes for "Social Strategy Notes" for some
future contiguous writing day will help me stop obsessing and let me
focus for the next week, which is supposed to be about code.

5 years agocheck in
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5 years agomicro check-in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 6 Feb 2019 22:36:49 +0000 (14:36 -0800)]
micro check-in

5 years agocheck in notes and Twitter fantasy edits
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 6 Feb 2019 21:13:17 +0000 (13:13 -0800)]
check in notes and Twitter fantasy edits

5 years agocheck in
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5 years ago"Use It or Lose It"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 28 Jan 2019 07:07:40 +0000 (23:07 -0800)]
"Use It or Lose It"

5 years agobetter post spacing
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 27 Jan 2019 01:58:20 +0000 (17:58 -0800)]
better post spacing

I was eager to just shove stuff out the door, but the point of filler
posts is to provide a more regular update schedule when you can't
manage that with effortposting

5 years agoqueue Interludes XVI–XVIII
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 27 Jan 2019 01:03:06 +0000 (17:03 -0800)]
queue Interludes XVI–XVIII

5 years agodrafting "Social Strategy Notes"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 20 Jan 2019 22:06:44 +0000 (14:06 -0800)]
drafting "Social Strategy Notes"

5 years agocheck in
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5 years agocheck in post list
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check in post list

5 years agocache a Tweet thread for August
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 20 Jan 2019 04:21:57 +0000 (20:21 -0800)]
cache a Tweet thread for August

5 years agodrafting "The Social Construction of Reality"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 20 Jan 2019 03:52:11 +0000 (19:52 -0800)]
drafting "The Social Construction of Reality"

5 years ago"The Dialectic": adjust the progressive narrative paraphrase
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 20 Jan 2019 01:32:06 +0000 (17:32 -0800)]
"The Dialectic": adjust the progressive narrative paraphrase

If "small effect size" is the Hydeian counter-counternarrative, then
the level-one narrative shouldn't talk about them.

5 years agocheck in raw draft material for "A Human's (Abridged) Guide"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 20 Jan 2019 00:02:41 +0000 (16:02 -0800)]
check in raw draft material for "A Human's (Abridged) Guide"

5 years agopost facto edits to metablogging
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 19 Jan 2019 23:16:30 +0000 (15:16 -0800)]
post facto edits to metablogging

5 years agopublish "The Dialectic"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 19 Jan 2019 22:52:33 +0000 (14:52 -0800)]
publish "The Dialectic"

5 years agocheck in
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5 years agowords mean things; you can't just repeat a cached phrase out of context
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 7 Jan 2019 04:57:13 +0000 (20:57 -0800)]
words mean things; you can't just repeat a cached phrase out of context

5 years agocheck in
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I really want to use that "Quarantine" quote somewhere, even if my
planned reply to the "... Not Coming Out" post isn't happening

5 years agoacknowledge an irony
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 27 Dec 2018 07:54:44 +0000 (23:54 -0800)]
acknowledge an irony

5 years agometablogging
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 27 Dec 2018 07:46:36 +0000 (23:46 -0800)]
metablogging

5 years agocheck in
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5 years agodrafting "The Dialectic"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 26 Dec 2018 00:54:38 +0000 (16:54 -0800)]
drafting "The Dialectic"

5 years agocheck in
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5 years agodrafting "I Mean, Yes"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 9 Dec 2018 20:45:24 +0000 (12:45 -0800)]
drafting "I Mean, Yes"

5 years agocheck in
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5 years agodrafting "I Mean, Yes, I Agree"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 9 Dec 2018 07:20:22 +0000 (23:20 -0800)]
drafting "I Mean, Yes, I Agree"

Today didn't feel that great, but netting more than 1100 words is
definitely good by historical standards! (Even during my sabbatical
that was allgedly for the purpose of writing, I averaged up with fewer
published words than this per two weeks!) Tomorrow is going to be busy
(reading group, Solstice), but maybe I can net a lot of words in the
morning?!

5 years agocheck in
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6 years agocheck in stub provisionally titled "The Writer's Room"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 29 Nov 2018 07:01:45 +0000 (23:01 -0800)]
check in stub provisionally titled "The Writer's Room"

6 years agodrafting "I Mean, Yes"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 26 Nov 2018 05:44:06 +0000 (21:44 -0800)]
drafting "I Mean, Yes"

6 years agocheck in
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6 years agodrafting "I Mean, Yes, I Agree"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 24 Nov 2018 07:02:33 +0000 (23:02 -0800)]
drafting "I Mean, Yes, I Agree"

6 years agoremove unnecessary qualifier
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 24 Nov 2018 04:54:47 +0000 (20:54 -0800)]
remove unnecessary qualifier

6 years agodrafting "I Mean, Yes, I Agree"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 24 Nov 2018 01:43:28 +0000 (17:43 -0800)]
drafting "I Mean, Yes, I Agree"

6 years agocheck in
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6 years agodrafting "I Mean, Yes, I Agree"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 19 Nov 2018 07:24:02 +0000 (23:24 -0800)]
drafting "I Mean, Yes, I Agree"

6 years agocheck in
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6 years agodrafting "I Mean, Yes, I Agree"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 15 Nov 2018 17:30:17 +0000 (09:30 -0800)]
drafting "I Mean, Yes, I Agree"

6 years agodrafting "I Mean, Yes, I Agree"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 12 Nov 2018 16:35:47 +0000 (08:35 -0800)]
drafting "I Mean, Yes, I Agree"

6 years agoax the "blame for misunderstanding" footnote
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 12 Nov 2018 04:44:21 +0000 (20:44 -0800)]
ax the "blame for misunderstanding" footnote

It's too passive-aggressive, and not adding a lot of value, besides

6 years agodrafting "I Mean, Yes, I Agree"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 12 Nov 2018 04:42:43 +0000 (20:42 -0800)]
drafting "I Mean, Yes, I Agree"

6 years agorename memetic-capture stub and add epigraph
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 11 Nov 2018 07:48:41 +0000 (23:48 -0800)]
rename memetic-capture stub and add epigraph

6 years agocheck in
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6 years agodrafting "I Mean, Yes, I Agree"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 5 Nov 2018 07:56:48 +0000 (23:56 -0800)]
drafting "I Mean, Yes, I Agree"

The net wordcount gain here isn't great, but at least we've got the
skeleton in place, and I just need to finish shoveling text around?
Call it a week?

6 years agocheck in notes
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 4 Nov 2018 16:40:26 +0000 (08:40 -0800)]
check in notes

6 years agodrafting money section for "I Mean, Yes"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 3 Nov 2018 17:44:56 +0000 (10:44 -0700)]
drafting money section for "I Mean, Yes"

6 years agooutlining for "I Mean, Yes, I Agree that Man"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 2 Nov 2018 15:33:49 +0000 (08:33 -0700)]
outlining for "I Mean, Yes, I Agree that Man"

6 years agocheck in
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6 years agonon-404 (for now??) "Power of the Powerless" link
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 29 Oct 2018 04:58:07 +0000 (21:58 -0700)]
non-404 (for now??) "Power of the Powerless" link

A friend of the blog informed me via Reddit PM that this link had gone
stale.

6 years agoedits to "Sticker Prices"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 29 Oct 2018 04:55:04 +0000 (21:55 -0700)]
edits to "Sticker Prices"

"An" anecdote.

Despite wanting to keep the focus on me and my feelings about the
Narrative (rather than picking on my anonymous interlocutor who could
have been anyone in the Current Year, really), the "outgroup
homogeneity" link opportunity is too perfect to pass up

6 years agoqueue "Sticker Prices", "Interlude XIV", "Laser 9", "Interlude XV"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 22 Oct 2018 05:09:48 +0000 (22:09 -0700)]
queue "Sticker Prices", "Interlude XIV", "Laser 9", "Interlude XV"

Hopefully this leading stack of M-W-F-M posts will set a precedent
that the blog is a going concern!

I feel a little bit bad about the awkward writing in "Sticker Prices"
(there's an interesting writing problem that I'm trying to solve there
that, uncharacteristically, I don't want to be too transparent about),
but whatever, it's not that important of a post, and I want to get
something out about how I felt at the conference

6 years agolottery Interlude
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 21 Oct 2018 06:06:44 +0000 (23:06 -0700)]
lottery Interlude

(This one is from the notes transcribed from one of my 2007 notebooks,
"We Have Better Graphs"!)

6 years agodraft "Laser 9"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 20 Oct 2018 23:56:52 +0000 (16:56 -0700)]
draft "Laser 9"

6 years agocheck in
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6 years agoanother (fictional, for now) sticker story; bump interludes
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 10 Oct 2018 06:31:13 +0000 (23:31 -0700)]
another (fictional, for now) sticker story; bump interludes

6 years agodrafting "Sticker Prices" (better title)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 8 Oct 2018 15:50:14 +0000 (08:50 -0700)]
drafting "Sticker Prices" (better title)

I need to get my writing momentum back! Ship this soon!

6 years agocheck in
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6 years agopublish "The Information Theory of Passing"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 2 Oct 2018 03:36:38 +0000 (20:36 -0700)]
publish "The Information Theory of Passing"

Thanks, Sophia! <3

6 years agocheck in
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6 years agorefine focus of the third idea
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 19 Sep 2018 15:33:41 +0000 (08:33 -0700)]
refine focus of the third idea

6 years agosplit "Scattered ..." into three post ideas
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 19 Sep 2018 15:21:07 +0000 (08:21 -0700)]
split "Scattered ..." into three post ideas

I'm not happy with any of these titles, but that's not important now.

6 years agocheck in
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6 years ago"Categories Were Made": anchor site for "different kinds of women" objection
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 17 Sep 2018 04:43:48 +0000 (21:43 -0700)]
"Categories Were Made": anchor site for "different kinds of women" objection

6 years agodrafting "Scattered ..." (just as a dumping pad for raw material)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 17 Sep 2018 04:42:57 +0000 (21:42 -0700)]
drafting "Scattered ..." (just as a dumping pad for raw material)

6 years agocheck in
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6 years agodrafting "Scattered Personal Reflections ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 2 Sep 2018 19:22:09 +0000 (12:22 -0700)]
drafting "Scattered Personal Reflections ..."

6 years agocheck in
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6 years agodrafting "Scattered ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 2 Sep 2018 06:31:26 +0000 (23:31 -0700)]
drafting "Scattered ..."

6 years agocheck in
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6 years ago"Scattered ..." draft: swap in a sharper epigraph
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 28 Aug 2018 15:07:50 +0000 (08:07 -0700)]
"Scattered ..." draft: swap in a sharper epigraph

The Mulan quote risks falling into the "anti-identity-politics
identity politics" trap; this one is more situation specific and
having the epigraph represent the attitude that I'm wary of shows
self-awareness. (I would hope that even people who don't like me
should be able to appreciate my blog from a "villain protagonist"
æsthetic perspective.)

6 years agodrafting "Scattered ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 27 Aug 2018 06:30:10 +0000 (23:30 -0700)]
drafting "Scattered ..."

6 years agocheck in changes to "Scattered ..."; reverse anchor to sticker discourse
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 27 Aug 2018 04:03:44 +0000 (21:03 -0700)]
check in changes to "Scattered ..."; reverse anchor to sticker discourse

6 years agocheck in notes/clippings
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 27 Aug 2018 04:03:20 +0000 (21:03 -0700)]
check in notes/clippings

6 years agocheck in notefile about a code-themed in-universe "deniably allegorical"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 27 Aug 2018 04:00:32 +0000 (21:00 -0700)]
check in notefile about a code-themed in-universe "deniably allegorical"

6 years agoguest post draft check-in: "The Information Theory of Passing"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 26 Aug 2018 02:45:45 +0000 (19:45 -0700)]
guest post draft check-in: "The Information Theory of Passing"

Sophia verbally said I could republish her analysis from our email
exchange the other year after I run it by her for edits (which, note,
I haven't done yet)! This is not quite verbatim from the email, with a
link to Wikipedia math, changes to formatting (subscript twos, Unicode
almost-equals, bolded list items, italicized "etc.", en dashes) and a
couple very minor wording changes (just "very different prospect"
instead of "very very very", cut phrase "in the rest of the email").