New Post from BiteofanAppleA Field Guide To LearningMay 11, 2026Let's say you're someone who wants to learn about an academic discipline. Perhaps advanced Physics, Sociology, Early-Modern History, or Cognition Science. Of course, there's YouTube pop...
New Post from BiteofanAppleWhy You Can't Write That BookI could do that, I just need more time.In life we are constantly wishing we had more of something: time, money, friends, energy, etc., and we develop plans to try and meet these goals. We alter...
New Post from BiteofanAppleMailing Things Is FunSometimes I can't tell if I'm discovering a cool new hobby, or just getting old. Regardless, today I come to you with a tale of a little endeavor of mine.In early 2020, a family member took a job far f...
New Post from BiteofanAppleTake Better Notes, By HandResearching a topic is hard, because not only are you trying to puzzle together the causes and effects of a given problem or historical series of events, you're also looking out carefully for lea...
New Post from BiteofanAppleYou Have Access To Almost Any BookI read a fair bit of non-fiction that spans a number of different genres. But the trouble with non-fiction is that it never answers a question without raising further questions. Non-fictio...
New Post from BiteofanAppleLoad-Bearing WallsMarch 10, 2026We like to believe that we can predict the future. We believe it because it's true, at least in part. Physical systems obey known physical laws and so even fairly complex systems can be unde...
New Post from BiteofanAppleAn Age Of Promethean AmbitionsIn a recent post, I wrote the following:[Without] the context of history, we're blind to the reality that we live in a world… deeply connected and familiar to the worlds of the past.Perha...
New Post from BiteofanAppleWords Are A Leaky AbstractionSomething about hearing the phrase "Claude's Soul Document" got me thinking again about a problem I've long pondered. Software folks, like myself, have a long and proud history of tak...
New Post from BiteofanAppleOn The Lies Depression TellsI'm no stranger to depressive episodes, though thankfully mine are sparse and usually brief: sometimes a day or two, though on rare occasions perhaps a week or more. I'm thankful mine have never...
New Post from BiteofanAppleThe Long View Of HistoryHistory as a subject is often viewed by students and the public at large as a domain without a use, a pedantic study of dates and names with some vague mission to remember the past—a memorial to age...
