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What is agency — and how can you get more of it?
3+ hour, 58+ min ago (1943+ words) “Agency” is one of those terms — see also “priors,” etc. — that I associate with “Silicon Valley rationalist types” and more broadly with the community that I call the River in my book. It’s perhaps slightly more intimidating than it needs…...
Psychology says people who abandon books halfway and quit projects that aren’t working aren’t flaky — walking away from a sunk cost is one of the hardest cognitive skills to master, and most people never develop it
18+ hour, 53+ min ago (1261+ words) I am currently on page 203 of a book I stopped enjoying around page 60. It's a novel about a family, and I could not tell you a single thing that has happened in the last eighty pages. Last night I read…...
Navigating Tomorrow: A Bold Look at How Generation Alpha Will Live and Work in 2040
19+ hour, 27+ min ago (204+ words) What kind of world will our children inherit? A realistic vision of the future that will define Generation Alpha. A thought-provoking new book offers parents and educators a detailed roadmap to the technological and societal shifts defining the future for…...
AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain
11+ hour, 4+ min ago (470+ words) Published Jul 25, 2026 12:02 PM EDT Traditionally, books have been good for two things: reading, and looking nice on a shelf. But AI companies are interested in neither. To those building large language models, books are nothing more than fodder to be…...
WHERE I’M WRITING FROM | OPINION: Cordovas bring on a ‘High Feeling’ | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
13+ hour, 6+ min ago (40+ words) WHERE I’M WRITING FROM | OPINION: Cordovas bring on a ‘High Feeling’ Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette WHERE I’M WRITING FROM | OPINION: Cordovas bring on a ‘High Feeling’ I'm writing from a break in our regularly scheduled programming....
tool to convert light novel chapters into EPUBs (linktoepub.com)
13+ hour, 39+ min ago (121+ words) You paste any novel site URL into linktoepub.com, and it cleans up the DOM (stripping out ads, popups, sidebars, and trackers) and outputs a clean, beautifully formatted.epub file ready for your e-reader, Apple Books, or Kindle. E-reader friendly:…...
Ocean Vuong On Asking Questions Without Answers
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (1033+ words) Thank you. You’ve talked about being drawn to the threshold, the moment between the rose and the bud, the in-between that we’ve been taught to ignore, because it has no name. How do you write toward that? You have so…...
Stitching Hundreds of TTS Segments Into an Audiobook Without Seams
18+ hour, 57+ min ago (568+ words) That's assembly engineering. It's unglamorous, and it's where perceived quality actually lives. An EPUB is a zip with an OPF manifest, a spine giving reading order, and usually a nav document (nav.xhtml in EPUB 3, toc.ncx in EPUB 2). Naively,…...
# I Shipped the First Real Stage of My Fanfiction Taste Engine, and It Isn't What I Originally Planned
20+ hour, 55+ min ago (399+ words) A few weeks ago I wrote about Siagnos, a personal taste engine for fanfiction that learns from reading behavior instead of matching tags. I was three stages in: scraper done, schema designed, embeddings working as a proof of concept. Then…...
DAY 192 - SMALL CHANGES, BIG IMPACT
17+ hour, 49+ min ago (141+ words) miss one page and the story still continues.keep writing consistently and eventually you have a complete book. Healthy living works much the same way.^ a glass of water^ short walk^ a balanced meal^ an extra hour of sleep On…...