Joe Cecil

Joe Cecil

Nov
13

The Amazing Digital Circus's pilot

4 min read
Nov
13

I want to write stories about people I don't understand, and I can't? (without understanding)

1 min read
Nov
12

A bunch of writing dichotomies that bother me

2 min read
Nov
11

How I think about fiction genre

3 min read
Nov
10

Frame text

2 min read
Nov
09

I can't believe it's not normally-colored

1 min read
Nov
09

Making desire paths means finding cheap ways of acting on velleities

3 min read
Nov
07

A feeling: I've solved this problem before, haven't I?

1 min read
Nov
06

The ugh of meditating in the winter

1 min read
Nov
05

Experiment idea: Not-a-letter to a friend

2 min read
Nov
04

Too many books

1 min read
Nov
03

Walking a dog on schedule vs. on-demand

1 min read
Oct
24

Assumptions I make about writing

4 min read
Oct
24

Hiatus until 11/03

1 min read
Oct
24

You can move a (prose) story forward outside of its scenes

4 min read
Oct
22

What might be wrong with planning a story?

1 min read
Oct
21

Continuity vs. worldbuilder's disease

3 min read
Oct
20

"Write a longer story"

4 min read
Oct
19

What might be missing from my stories?

7 min read
Oct
18

Respecting the art

5 min read
Oct
16

Three ways of appearing

1 min read
Oct
15

A list of items to consider when planning a trip

1 min read
Oct
14

Contrast

1 min read
Oct
13

Hogswatch charity

2 min read
Oct
12

No hard feelings

1 min read
Oct
10

"Art is a support for life"

2 min read
Oct
09

Places to find the OBD-II scanner port

1 min read
Oct
08

Watch later

2 min read
Oct
07

The process of looking for a used car

3 min read
Oct
04

What is the null probability of a distribution of straights in a hand of cards? 1/?

4 min read
Oct
03

What is the null probability of a given combination of ranks?

1 min read
Oct
02

How to re-stuff a Samadhi Cushions zafu

1 min read
Oct
01

What is the null probability of a given combination of suits?

1 min read
Sep
30

Alts

1 min read
Sep
29

How to shuffle cards well when you never shuffle cards

4 min read
Sep
27

It is sometimes good to say obvious things

1 min read
Sep
27

You could have invented PEM encoding

1 min read
Sep
26

The Giant's Coffin

1 min read
Sep
25

In what sense might there be an "illusion of memory"?

1 min read
Sep
24

Continual returning

1 min read
Sep
23

What is the six realms model for?

1 min read
Sep
22

A non-example of animal realm mindset?

1 min read
Sep
21

Against sorting by descending likes

1 min read
Sep
20

George Polya tutored the child John von Neumann

1 min read
Sep
19

A failed experiment in brainstorming: The goal matrix

1 min read
Sep
18

Why Nginx needs the SSL certificate with chain, not just the bare certificate

1 min read
Sep
17

Bookish mindset

1 min read
Sep
16

The curse of irony

1 min read
Sep
15

Take risks* sometimes

1 min read
Sep
15

How to get the x-axis of an Excel scatter chart programmatically

1 min read