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Weekly events, and an essay 'The Tyranny of the Short Form', in celebration of our new (Longer-Form) Emails.

"He that writes in blood and proverbs wants not to be read, but learnt by heart..." - Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra "Them that write long scrolling webpages want not to be learnt by heart, or even really read, but skimmed and forgotten..." -

Last May, we published "A Marriage between Handwritten Notes and Obsidian" - a rather baroque automation for auto-transcribing handwritten PDFs (e.g. from an E-ink tablet) into glorious markdown using Mathpix's API. We, i.e. the expansive and pseudonymous

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Of the 18th of November, 2024There's surprisingly good Starlink service in the Luddite CavesFortunately, the continuity of spacetime has resumed: the Fortnightly is back!In this edition, we have a round up of new E-ink and time-blocking tools, then an (un

In this installment of the Riddle Book Review, the Riddler relives "The Great PowerPoint Panic" of the early 2000s - one of the first instances of widespread thought about the consequences of the new mediums we have created in such abundance. References:"

Of September 19th, 2024Readers of Riddle,You're probably familiar with Goodhart's Law, that 'once a goal becomes a metric, it ceases to be a good goal.' This is often attributed to bureaucratic incompetence, or (more grandiosely) to the maddening difficul

This is a review from the Riddle Book Club. Every few weeks, we read a book and write a small piece about/inspired by/in counterpoint to it. You needn't have read the book to read this review - it will summarize the parts of the book that most struck us;

This workflow was previously featured in the Riddle Fortnightly, but seemed chunky enough to merit its own article. A few years ago, pre-ChatGPT, a collective called Psionica sought to spark an upgrade in human learning with something called 'Autocards'.