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I started reorienting my mind toward project writing.<\/strong> Instead of flopping onto my bed after work every day and scrolling social media in a haze of fatigue, I decided midweek I would give myself a topic to think about on my way home and spend a small chunk of time writing first thing when I got there. It didn\u2019t end up happening quite that way, since I was intent on catch-up blogging instead, but it did get my mind whirring in general, which you’ll hear about in the rest of this post. It helped that I also removed some of the more time-wasting apps from my phone. All the extra thinking wasn\u2019t great for my sleep schedule, though.<\/p>\n \ud83e\udd13<\/p>\n On my memory project, I considered creating a conculture<\/a>.<\/strong> I pondered how fleshing out my mnemonic system would ideally create not just a loose collection of techniques and images but an extensive and cohesive fictional culture. This would expand my mnemonic conlang idea into a conculture, mainly featuring folklore and memory-related cultural practices. I also spent some time marveling at how well this project brings together so many of my interests: learning, narrative, modeling, linguistics, productivity, music, and visual arts.<\/p>\n \ud83e\uddd0<\/p>\n I started thinking through ideas that might go into the next version of my modeling project overview.<\/strong> I might talk about the various modeling languages people encounter in their everyday lives, mainly natural language and math. And I’d probably talk about my wish for an interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary field of modeling. My thoughts on disciplinarity were influenced by this blog post<\/a> and this discussion with ChatGPT<\/a>.<\/p>\n \ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\n I ventured further into some of my experimental literature topics.<\/strong> I explored how someone might create a shufflable narrative<\/a> like Marc Saporta\u2019s Composition No. 1<\/em><\/a>. I read a bit of the manual to Inform 7<\/a>, a text adventure game engine, and had Claude try writing a game for it<\/a>, which mostly worked. And I stumbled across the experimental music software Arge\u00efphontes Lyre<\/a> (via this video<\/a>), which inspired me with its arcane textual elements. Maybe soon I\u2019ll add some more to my page of experimental literature links<\/a>.<\/p>\n \ud83d\ude2e<\/p>\n A couple of deer showed up at one of my very suburban parks.<\/strong> I wondered how they’d gotten there, since I think of this park is being bounded by roads and homes and a school, but looking at the map I saw it’s connected to some of my other usual parks by a creek, so hopefully some visitors at those got to see them too.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A post shared by Andy Culbertson (@thinkulum)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\nLearning<\/h2>\n
Modeling<\/h2>\n
Literature<\/h2>\n
Nature<\/h2>\n
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