Joel Dueck

Iceland
Photos and notes from a week of exploration

Notes on ‘Don Quixote’
Recording thoughts while reading.

Color Reception
Environment as brush, mind as canvas.

Manually type punctuation
Enter correct quotes and dashes while you write. Computers and other people will screw it up.

AI is right about em-dashes
Humans invented them and should keep using them.

How I license
Open source with a ‘show and tell’ requirement

Strategy of Attention Economy
A filter for the new year.

Vagrant writers
Seems like the really good writers let other people do the publishing?

Northern Minnesota, October 2023
Short retrospective, with photos

Mind Palaces
A ‘mind palace’ is any cognitive system or lever built by a person or small group.

Share poems like memes
A poem is an antique form of meme.

Creative Opacity
Withhold your methods until your results are worth revealing.

The static dynamic
Not a coherent or useful distinction.

Friction in publishing
Friction is conserved. To have less of it, do less.

Being in the Graph Mind
Being online is like being a neuron that can drive.

Graph Mind
The giant social computer in the cloud

Approaches to web publishing
Engineering it for durability, or cooking it for reach.

Dice Word List book
Making a book by writing code.

Publishing Nerds
What do you call someone who loves publishing the way a writer loves writing?

Literacy Gradient
Literacy is not a binary condition.

Screech
A finished piece of writing should go down like rum and boiling water.