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a Tuesday — twenty-six minutes on the train, the rain has started.
A Pattern Language
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
Christopher Alexander, Ishikawa & Silverstein
You stopped reading at pattern 159. It begins at "Light on Two Sides of Every Room" — fifteen minutes on the train.
The shape of design
The shape of design — a manual for makers
Frank Chimero · ribbonfarm essay
Short on the commute, in the line you've started to draw between Alexander and craft.
Tyler Cowen on the slow death of attention
Tyler Cowen on the slow death of attention
Marginal Revolution · 9 May 2026
Saved Friday, unread; you usually read Cowen on Tuesday mornings.

The library

214 books · 1,407 highlights · 62 branches
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Tuesday · 26 May
A Pattern Language
A Pattern Language
Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein · 1977
Book
p. 614
41 highlights
Reading · 62%
Why GPT works — the prediction trick that became a worldview
Why GPT works — the prediction trick that became a worldview
Stephen Wolfram · Wolfram writings · saved this morning
Article
42 min
unread
Unread
Tyler Cowen on the slow death of attention
Tyler Cowen on the slow death of attention
Marginal Revolution · saved Fri, 22 May from the Chrome clip
Essay
14 min
unread
Unread
The shape of design
The shape of design
Frank Chimero · 2012 · re-read
Book · web
128 p.
9 highlights
Reading · 18%
Last week
The Most Important Scarce Resource is Legitimacy
The Most Important Scarce Resource is Legitimacy
Vitalik Buterin · vitalik.eth.limo · saved Tue, 12 May
Essay
17 min
6 highlights
Finished Wed
Bluets
Bluets
Maggie Nelson · 2009 · paperback, scanned via Kindle
Book
112 p.
18 highlights
Reading · 41%
Stratechery — the AI & the strategy stack
The AI and the strategy stack
Ben Thompson · Stratechery · saved Wed, 13 May
Newsletter
22 min
5 highlights
Finished Thu
Upstream — Selected Essays
Upstream — Selected Essays
Mary Oliver · 2016 · re-read, second time
Book
192 p.
14 highlights
Unread
The Aesthetics of Action
On the aesthetics of action — a letter to a young architect
Christopher Alexander · 1985 · uploaded PDF, 28 pages
PDF
28 p.
9 highlights
Reading · 14%
Earlier this month
Deep Work
Deep Work
Cal Newport · 2016 · finished fourteen months ago, re-opened in April
Book · Kindle
288 p.
22 highlights
Finished 14 mo ago
Funding science — what we learned from the FRO experiment
Funding science — what we learned from the FRO experiment
Patrick Collison · collison.ie · saved 4 May
Essay
36 min
11 highlights
Finished 6 May
A Field Guide to Getting Lost
A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Rebecca Solnit · 2005
Book
209 p.
26 highlights
Finished 28 Apr
Flow — The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Flow — The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi · 1990 · audiobook + notes
Book · audio
10 h 12 m
31 highlights
Finished 22 Apr
The Empty Space
The Empty Space
Peter Brook · 1968 · borrowed from the club shelf
Book
160 p.
7 highlights
Archived

The library is sorted newest-first. The garden is updated each night at three a.m. — twenty-two new threads were drawn last night across the branches on attention and craft.