party girl

Why don't we consider great personal style to be high art? The dressing room in Karl Lagerfeld’s apartment in Louveciennes. You bet I’ve sunk many hours into browsing Pamono for a replica of that gorgeous Bruno Paul dressing table for AFFALÉ H.Q. Personal style is a dangerous thing for a...

A few rationalist-adjacent friends have told they treat my newsletters as link posts, and largely ignore the content itself (thanks, guys). I get it, gonzo party journalism isn't everybody's cup of tea. But most people love a good, long link post. So, I wanted to run an experiment. I counted,...

A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Through the years he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that that patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his...

See also my LessWrong preface to this series, and previous installments. "Strategic intimacy is not necessarily a bad thing, so long as the parties involved share equivalent understandings of the degree of economic utility..." It was very generic, I guess that’s what threw me. Because I was like, I don’t...

See also my LessWrong preface to this series, and past installments: (i) TAO Downtown, (ii) LAVO, (iii) Etiquette, and (iv) Silencio. (v) The Fleur Room "But you’ll find it’s not as big a piece of the puzzle as you thought..." I hop out of a cab in NoMad a few...

See also my LessWrong preface to this series, and past installments: (i) TAO Downtown, (ii) LAVO, and (iii) Etiquette "Go with me somewhere..." One night, sometime during these weeks, I remember a dream I had. It’s either very late, or else time has been murdered entirely, and I find I’m...

See also my LessWrong preface to this series, and previous installments: (i) TAO Downtown and (ii) LAVO "The sparkler is a live firework that shoots out as high as eight inches. It burns for up to fifty-five seconds..." ‘Well, I'm glad you made it. To…’ he glances around, as if...