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Season 6

Perhaps The LLM Juice Isn’t Worth The Electrical Squeeze (rwblog S6E23)

Last updated: 4/17/2024

Wait! This Sounds Familiar (rwblog S6E22)

Last updated: 4/1/2024

Meeting A Stranger In New York Without Communicating (rwblog S6E21)

Last updated: 3/19/2024

Accessible, Understandable Answers in a Broad Domain of Interest (rwblog S6E20)

Last updated: 3/5/2024

The Old Cyberpunk Vision of a World of Neoliberal Corporations Run Amok (rwblog S6E19)

Last updated: 2/17/2024

28 Pieces of Advice for 28 (rwblog S6E18)

Last updated: 2/5/2024

My Year of Rest and Relaxation (rwb S6E17)

Last updated: 1/15/2024

Yes Yes I Know It’s Passé (rwblog S6E16)

Last updated: 1/1/2024

When I Hit Cmd-Z One Too Many Times (rwblog S6E15)

Last updated: 12/15/2023

Good Enough To Call It A Zine, Right? (rwblog S6E14)

Last updated: 12/4/2023

React and Try Something Different (rwblog S6E13)

Last updated: 11/15/2023

A Giant Continuous Blob of Semantic Functions (rwblog S6E12)

Last updated: 11/1/2023

Unsusceptibility to the Illusion is Inherent (rwblog S6E11)

Last updated: 10/21/2023

If You Show Still Frames In Sequence Fast Enough (rwblog S6E10)

Last updated: 10/4/2023

Once The Canadians In The Audience Recover From Their Shock… (rwblog S6E9)

Last updated: 9/4/2023

There’s Probably a Metaphor for Business Leadership or Scientific Research in Here (rwblog S6E8)

Last updated: 7/29/2023

A Very Confusing System Built Out Of Logical Components (rwblog S6E7)

Last updated: 7/10/2023

As Promised, A Very Dumb Frog (rwblog S6E6)

Last updated: 6/11/2023

Did you know stone fruit like peaches and plums are coming into season this month? (rwblog S6E5)

Last updated: 5/5/2023

Eh, It Wasn’t Worth Celebrating Anyway (rwblog S6E4)

Last updated: 4/6/2023

In Which I Wax Nostalgic for My Lost Youth (rwblog S6E3)

Last updated: 2/9/2023

A Cobbled-Together Frankenstein of Fragments (rwblog S6E2)

Last updated: 1/7/2023

You Might Not Think You Need A Milk Frother... (rwblog S6E1)

Last updated: 12/11/2022

Season 5

Monthly Changelog (Sep 2022)

Last updated: 10/3/2022

Monthly Changelog (Aug 2022)

Last updated: 9/2/2022

Analyzing and Synthesizing Thinking Styles

Last updated: 8/8/2022

Command Line Tools I Like (2022)

Last updated: 6/21/2022

How I Built It: rwblickhan.org (2022)

Last updated: 5/15/2022

rwblog: Tools for 2022

Last updated: 1/17/2022

52 Books of 2021

Last updated: 1/5/2022

Season 4

Hop On Your Boat With A Shovel (AD S4E9)

Last updated: 5/9/2021

Nestled in a Remote Mountain Valley That Receives High Snowfall During the Winter (AD S4E8)

Last updated: 5/2/2021

All Writing’d Out (AD S4E7)

Last updated: 4/26/2021

A Cool Natural Stream That Turns On and Off Throughout the Day (AD S4E6)

Last updated: 4/19/2021

Patiently Waiting To Get Our Vaccines (AD S4E5)

Last updated: 4/12/2021

Picking and Choosing Elements of Western Culture to Adopt (AD S4E4)

Last updated: 4/4/2021

Hang Out With Some Horses, I Guess? (AD S4E3)

Last updated: 3/29/2021

I Should Probably Take That Outline More Seriously (AD S4E2)

Last updated: 3/22/2021

What’s New, Rooby-Doo? (Applied Dilettantery S4E1)

Last updated: 3/15/2021

Season 3

Dragon Farming (AD S3E15)

Last updated: 3/7/2021

From the Travelogue of Multan Dhzon: The Desert Libraries of Tingiz (AD S3E14)

Last updated: 2/28/2021

The Structure, Part VII (AD S3E12)

Last updated: 2/22/2021

The Factory (AD S3E11)

Last updated: 2/15/2021

Parvis (AD S3E10)

Last updated: 2/8/2021

The Structure, Part VI (S3E9)

Last updated: 2/1/2021

The Structure, Part V (S3E8)

Last updated: 1/25/2021

The Structure, Part IV (S3E7)

Last updated: 1/18/2021

The Structure, Part III (S3E6)

Last updated: 1/10/2021

The Structure, Part II (S3E5)

Last updated: 1/3/2021

The Structure, Part I (S3E4)

Last updated: 12/28/2020

The House, Part III (S3E3)

Last updated: 12/21/2020

The House, Part II (S3E2)

Last updated: 12/14/2020

The House, Part I (S3E1)

Last updated: 12/7/2020

Season 2

Rewriting Everything in the Rough Draft (AD S2E11)

Last updated: 11/23/2020

Getting Sidetracked Building A Detailed Universe (AD S2E10)

Last updated: 11/9/2020

Isn’t That Just New Years’ Resolutions? (AD S2E9)

Last updated: 10/26/2020

Surprising, and Maybe Even Unfair (AD S2E8)

Last updated: 10/12/2020

An Anthology of Obsessions (S2E7)

Last updated: 9/28/2020

A Form of Transcendent Mysticism (S2E6)

Last updated: 9/14/2020

We Now Disrupt This Broadcast (S2E5)

Last updated: 8/31/2020

This Email Has No Content (AD S2E4)

Last updated: 8/17/2020

Simultaneously Praising Restraint and Forgiveness While Also Drenching Audiences in Gallons of Stage Blood (AD S2E3)

Last updated: 8/2/2020

Suffused with a Deep Sense of Nostalgia for the Past (AD S2E2)

Last updated: 7/20/2020

Misplaced Institutional Incentives (AD S2E1)

Last updated: 7/6/2020

Season 1

Running Out of Steam (AiD S1E26)

Last updated: 6/22/2020

An Imitation of the Eternal Forms (AiD S1E25)

Last updated: 6/8/2020

The Clockwork Precision of Storytelling (AiD \#24)

Last updated: 5/25/2020

A Long-Term Target for Reading (AiD \#23)

Last updated: 5/10/2020

Hopefully A Nice Chance for Rest and Relaxation (AiD

Last updated: 4/27/2020

Convicted Unanimously by a Jury of His Peers

Last updated: 4/13/2020

Surprise Stories (AiD \#20)

Last updated: 4/6/2020

Mindbending Escheresque Puzzle World Works of Art

Last updated: 3/30/2020

... And Another Thing

Last updated: 3/16/2020

This Story Is Bonkers and Has No Chill

Last updated: 3/16/2020

Nothing!

Last updated: 3/2/2020

Hello from New York

Last updated: 2/17/2020

A Really Useful Interpretive Lens

Last updated: 2/3/2020

Whoops I Got A Dog

Last updated: 1/20/2020

All Quiet on the Non-Fiction Front

Last updated: 1/6/2020

An Intentional Work of Literature

Last updated: 12/23/2019

Jangly Psychedelic Indie Pop

Last updated: 12/9/2019

An Early Thanksgiving Feast

Last updated: 11/25/2019

Is This A Crossover? (It's Not)

Last updated: 11/11/2019

Laser Targeted At My Teenaged Self

Last updated: 10/28/2019

Migraines, and Other Mellifluous Melodies

Last updated: 10/14/2019

An Exciting Week of Nothing Much Happening

Last updated: 9/30/2019

It's A Beautiful Day In The Neighbourhood

Last updated: 9/16/2019

I Don't Know, What's The Content?

Last updated: 9/2/2019

No Musings This Week™️

Last updated: 8/19/2019

Soma; Or, Moving to San Francisco and Living to Tell

Last updated: 8/5/2019