IanWS

I’ve always liked learning about the mechanics of how others write. Common advice like "write every day" or "don't pause to edit" is fine, but what I really want to know is what’s going on inside your head, what are your fingers doing, and what does your draft even look...

> Nevertheless, I shall take advantage of your kindness in assuming we agree that a science cannot be conditioned upon empiricism. > > — Jacques Lacan, “The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious”[1] Freud developed the first modern theory of the unconscious. His...

A recent post by @Linch, “The Fourth World,” gets at an important implication of consciousness— namely, that we ought to suspect further aspects of reality than we can today observe—but I’m not sure it arrives there the right way, or that it derives the correct conclusions.[1] The author makes two...

The rapid advances in AI have led to an increase in the automation of software production[1], particularly through agentic coding tools like Claude Code. Open source projects like Gas Town are now attempting to fully automate the software development process. However, I argue that this is economically[2] infeasible for the...