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...