Ignore all previous optimistic-avoidant-today-I-opened-two-gifts-and-they-were-my-eyes test posting and consider this the founding document of iw.gl
I am below everything.
no longer writing in the third person
hiding from the rain
ahnaf is it worth reading all those books
as in
Sun, 23 Nov 2025 10:37:17
like people can read 100 books and still not have the fire within them
so the method has to be autonomous
i hadn't considered this pedagogically or as a kind of personal knowledge management system (puke) at all but i suppose it is both of those things
not their contents
division of reality is straying away from it
there's probably something in that, but I don't feel like thinking about it too much yet.
all that is to say
magnetises a pin
i got bored though because i knew all of the different arrangements of it. i probably needed to stick at it longer to get it dense enough to feel navigable in a way that was engaging to me
somewhere between instagram and chatgpt
its good
theres a kind of a cowardice to generative art that i want to avoid though. i want the kind of relationship to this thing that a game designer has to a game engine
which magnetises chains of pins
that is unstable and lets me operate in that discovery mode that i can create within and also produce works from.
i understand
to work in time to get to the timeless, perfection thru chaos
is this you as well