Speculative World-Making

Explores the construction of fictional and speculative realities—through worldbuilding, serial fiction, and science fiction analysis—as a mode of thinking about possibility spaces, escape from consensus reality, and the edges of the imaginable.

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2024-08-17 Truth-Seeking Modes
2024-05-24 Going Sessile
2024-05-02 There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm
2024-04-01 History is More Like Science Fiction Than Fantasy
2024-03-13 Storytelling — Just Add Dinosaurs
2024-03-07 Matter and Life
2024-03-05 Civilizational Functionalism
2024-02-21 Four Modes of BDFxing
2024-02-15 The Dark Forest Marketing Agency
2024-01-17 Universal Kit Template
2024-01-10 Knowledge Management
2023-10-23 Vastness
2023-09-07 Worlds in Waiting
2023-07-06 The Resourceful Life
2023-04-20 Storytelling — The Penumbra of Mortality
2023-03-30 Tessellations for the End of History
2023-01-26 Bracketverse -- I
2022-12-07 Worldwinds
2022-08-04 A Dreaming World
2022-07-28 Tubeworld
2022-07-13 Storytelling -- Tellability
2022-06-02 Storytelling -- Mediocre Metamodernism
2022-05-05 The Map
2022-03-30 Fermi Estimates and Dyson Designs
2021-11-03 Ghost Protocols
2021-10-05 Storytelling -- Cringe and the Banality of Shadows
2021-09-30 MJD 59,487
2021-09-20 Mediocratopia: 11
2021-07-29 Mediocratopia: 10
2021-07-22 The Retiree
2021-06-24 Storytelling -- Matthew Dicks
2021-06-17 Storytelling -- Mamet's Conflict Airing Theory
2021-06-04 Non-Contact
2021-05-27 Space Luck
2021-05-13 Comet Bob
2021-03-18 Kinds of Potential
2020-10-29 MJD 59,151
2020-09-16 Notes: The Starship and the Canoe by Kenneth Brower
2020-08-24 Notes: Astounding by Alec Nevala-Lee
2020-08-19 Convergent Evolution
2020-08-13 Clockmaking: 1
2020-06-25 Mansionism 1: Building-Milieu Fit
2020-06-04 MJD 59,004
2020-05-21 New E-Book, and a Portfolio Update
2020-04-15 Predictable Identities 27: Craving and the Pill
2020-04-12 Now Reading: Pandemic Edition
2020-02-10 MJD 58,889
2020-01-23 Being Your Selves: Identity R&D on alt Twitter
2020-01-18 MJD 58,866
2020-01-06 MJD 58,854
2019-12-06 The Ovaltine Moment
2019-11-19 The Other Simulation Hypothesis
2019-11-01 Plannar -- Co-Visioning with AR
2019-10-29 The City as Weakly-Escaped Reality
2019-10-22 Value Investing in Cults and Religions
2019-10-18 Escape' Reality Presents - A Timeshare Opportunity
2019-10-15 Observability and Time
2019-10-11 PermaPunk - Visionary Non/Fictions
2019-09-25 Elderblog Sutra: 9
2019-09-23 Domestic Cozy: 8
2019-09-10 Elderblog Sutra: 8
2019-09-04 Worlding Raga 7: Worlds of Worlds
2019-08-16 Multitemporality: 1
2019-07-17 Weirding Diary: 9
2019-07-16 Mediocratopia: 6
2019-07-09 Elderblog Sutra: 7
2019-07-04 Semi-Annual 2019 Roundup
2019-06-20 Reflections on Refactor Camp 2019
2019-06-19 Mazes as Mirrors of Creation
2019-06-18 Worlding Raga 6: World To Live
2019-06-13 Refactor Camp Livestream This Weekend
2019-04-25 Worlding Raga: 5 -- World How?
2019-04-15 Mediocratopia: 4
2019-04-04 Escaping Reality: Refactor Camp 2019, Los Angeles, June 15-16
2019-04-02 Worlding Raga: 4 - Who Worlds?
2019-03-25 Infinite Machines: 2 – Plasticized Erotica
2019-03-21 Constructions in Magical Thinking
2019-03-15 Domestic Cozy: 2
2019-03-14 Worlding Raga: 3 -- Slouching with God
2019-03-11 Infinite Machines: 1 - An Introduction
2019-03-05 Worlding Raga: 2 - What is a World?
2019-02-21 Worlding Raga: 1
2019-02-08 Mediocratopia: 1
2019-02-04 Weirding Diary: 3
2019-01-31 Elderblog Sutra: 1
2018-11-21 The Age of Early Divinity
2018-11-08 May You Live in Epic Times
2018-08-16 Refactor Camp 2018: Cryptoeconomics and Blockchain Weirding Post-Mortem
2018-07-19 Quiver Doodles
2018-06-21 Near-Deathness
2018-05-29 Reality Maintenance
2018-04-24 Survival of the Mediocre Mediocre
2018-03-08 Refactor Camp 2018: Cryptoeconomics and Blockchain Weirding
2018-01-09 Boat Stories
2017-12-14 A Glitch in the Theocratic Matrix
2017-10-10 The Blockchain Man
2017-09-14 How to Make History
2017-08-29 Winning Is for Losers
2017-08-08 The Crisis of the Lonely Atoms
2017-07-13 Crash Early, Crash Often
2017-06-27 Been There, Done That
2017-06-06 Thingness and Thereness
2017-04-04 Cloud Viruses in the Invisible Republic
2017-03-30 Nobody Expects The Mongolian Earthship
2017-03-23 Bourbon Crossing
2017-03-09 \"Another Green World\"
2017-02-14 Caring and Reality
2017-02-09 One Sacred Trick for Moral Regeneration
2017-02-07 Shift Register Code Breaking Out of the Echo Chamber
2017-01-17 How to Dress for the Game of Life
2016-12-21 The Computational Condition
2016-10-06 The Art of the Conspiracy Theory
2016-09-22 Speak Weirdness to Truth
2016-08-25 The Liminal Explorer of the Adjacent Possible
2016-08-11 Trace of the Weirding
2016-05-19 Examining the Accidental Life
2016-04-28 Immortality Begins at Forty
2016-04-21 A Framework of Experimental Habit Formation
2016-03-31 Human-Complete Problems
2016-03-22 Berliners #11: Snowflaking Out
2016-03-08 Berliners #10: Pie-Carving
2016-02-09 Berliners #9: The Scent of a Yak
2016-01-26 Berliners #8: Red String
2016-01-19 Berliners #7: Organic, Free-Range Chicken and Egg
2016-01-14 Berliners #6: Purgatorinomics
2015-12-08 Berliners #5: Grandparents
2015-11-17 Berliners #4: Cactus and Weasel
2015-10-27 The Berliners #3: Sparring Session
2015-10-06 Alice and Bob Discover Capitalism
2015-09-08 The Greater Ribbonfarm Cultural Region 2015
2015-08-13 Executive Engagement
2015-07-14 New Horizons
2015-05-13 Technopaganism and the Newer Age
2015-04-02 The Art of Gig III
2015-03-26 The Art of Gig II
2015-02-25 The Mother of All 2x2s
2015-02-18 A Dent in the Universe
2015-01-16 On the Design of Escaped Realities
2015-01-01 Black Mirror as Hell-Is-Other-People Futurism
2014-11-20 Learning to Fly by Missing the Ground
2014-11-05 Don't Surround Yourself With Smarter People
2014-10-29 Crash-Only Thinking
2014-10-21 Playing Games to Leave Games
2014-09-09 Geopolitics for Individuals
2014-09-03 How to Fall Off the Wagon
2014-08-26 The Creation and Destruction of Habits
2014-08-06 Seoul Station
2014-07-30 The Heirloom Lounge
2014-06-25 Language and Strategy
2014-06-25 Portals and Flags
2014-06-11 The Deliberate Practice of Disruption
2014-06-04 Saints and Traders: The John Henry Fable Reconsidered
2014-05-29 Artistic Forestry: 2014 Annual Letter
2014-04-09 The Legibility Tradeoff
2014-03-20 The Message is the Medium
2014-03-06 Immortality in the Ocean of Infinite Memories
2014-02-20 The Cactus and the Weasel
2013-11-13 The Gooseberry Fallacy
2013-10-11 The Mother of All Disruptions
2013-08-08 On Freedomspotting
2013-04-10 A Beginner's Guide to Immortality
2012-09-11 Romanticism and Classicism (Assembly Required)
2012-08-09 The Interesting Times Triangle
2012-07-24 Happily Almost Ever After: Towards a Romantic Account of Détente
2012-02-07 The Greater Ribbonfarm Cultural Region
2011-10-26 Three Deep Videos and a Roundup
2011-10-19 The Quest for Immortality
2010-09-14 Cricket as Metaphor
2010-05-27 In the Real World...
2010-01-28 The Misanthrope's Guide to the End of the World
2009-05-21 Bay's Conjecture
2008-11-03 The Corporate College and Other Election 3.0 Ideas
2008-08-05 The Next Level of the Game
2008-04-07 CEO Badger Picks a CSO
2008-02-21 The Blue Tunnel
2008-01-22 Mousetrap 2.0: A Comicbook
2007-11-17 A Surfer's Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything
2007-10-01 Where is I?
2007-09-15 BBC Documentary Featuring Gregory Chaitin
2007-09-09 Digital Philosophy II: Are Cellular Automata Important?
2007-08-16 Digital Philosophy - I: The Real is Unreal
2007-07-13 Harry Potter and the Leaky Genre
2007-07-06 Harry Potter and the Concept of Magic