Joe Cecil

The intersection problem

Suppose you're coordinating a group movie night with a few friends. There is no ongoing theme, so you try to pick movies everyone will like. Alice likes horror movies and comedies, Bob likes action and comedy, and Carol will watch anything. You end up watching a lot of

Softening the ground for fitness

I have a vague sense that it would be good to get more fit. It would be good for my health. It would be good for my sleep. It would be good for my posture. It would probably be good for my energy levels, too. I could probably name a

Difficulty settings for doing weird things

Doing weird things, like eating ants, is sometimes fun. This comes in different difficulty settings: 1. Do the weird thing before knowing of anyone else doing it ever. 2. Do it before reading any account of a specific person doing it. 3. Do it before personally knowing anyone doing it.

Things I found and loved this year

Inspired by a tweet, I made a list of all the things I found and loved this year. This is mostly fiction: Prose and anime. There are a few video games, too. Prose fiction and one review thereof 1. Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer. It's a

Ingurgitate

I recently found my way to Sasha Chapin's blog for perhaps the third time and decided to do the only sensible thing: Sweep the archive for posts relevant to my immediate interests and swallow every one of them as quickly as possible. The word ingurgitate comes to mind.

Joe Cecil © 2026