Cal Newport on AI Doomerism
Cal Newport talking about the people behind AI, the people who worship AI, and how that is or isn’t relevant to normal people and their normal lives.
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A collection of 33 posts
The March Update
Back in India as I write this. You might remember from my last post that Anand and I got stuck in London for a few extra days because of *gestures at the world in general*, but we got back safely on the 9th, and since then, I’ve been busy
It Takes As Long As It Takes
As I’ve mentioned in a couple of posts before, I’ve been watching a lot of YouTube videos about guitar as I slowly learn to play the guitar myself.
One of my favourite recent ones was this history of the guitar, in which guitarist Rob Scallon and classical guitarist/
One Thing at a Time
I wrote something similar in my post about attention, but this felt relevant to adult learning as well.
I’ve been learning how to play guitar for the last month or so, and before that, for the last few years, I’ve been (slowly) teaching myself how to draw.
And
How to Get Your Attention Back
I’m halfway through my Digital Declutter, and I’ve settled into it now. You know how, when you lose your smartphone and temporarily have to use a dumbphone, you actually end up finding it fairly restful? This has been like that. It helps that these days the change is
Productivity Systems and the Bullet Journal
I’m trying to turn this thing back into a proper blog and not just a newsletter archive, so I’m going to try and write shorter, more frequent posts. (This one’s not short, because it’s basically four blog posts I couldn’t be bothered to separate.)
I’
2025 / #04: You Just Like Good Movies
Updates
Links
A Brief Note on Fandom
That’s January done. At first, it felt like it was going by too fast, but then I looked at everything I’d done in the month (I’ve returned to keeping a diary regularly, and it helps one see what’s happening
2025 / #02: Lynchian
Updates
New books
Shout-Outs
RIP David Lynch
This week has been a light one at work. I wrapped up the lettering for Resurrection Man #3 and w0rldtr33 #13, but there wasn’t much left to be done on either.
The main project for the week was to begin scripting
2025 / #01: Kindnesses
Rejig
Resurrection Man: Quantum Karma
Updates
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Just Enough Kindness
So! It’s 2025, and I wanted to do the newsletter differently this year – consider it a new season, so to speak. There are, most likely, going to be more work updates – in terms of lettering and writing – so this
How Lucky, to Have Been (A Personal Reflection on Ice Cream Man #18)
Note: This essay was originally published in August 2020, in PanelxPanel #37, which was the Ice Cream Man special issue. I contributed a lot of articles to the early issues of PxP, partly because Hass is a friend, and partly because he would let me write whatever I wanted to.