Neal Stephenson on writing by hand. He mostly uses fountain pens on paper.

nealstephenson.substack.com/p/writing…

Jaiku was so much better than Twitter in every way (threaded conversations, anyone?). And yet Twitter/X became the app everyone used. I think about how different life would be if Jaiku would have been the app everyone used or if Twitter wouldn’t have transitioned to the algorithmic feed. Sigh.

I miss reading baseball box scores all on one page. Having to click a link to see the box score of a single game isn’t the same. Too much friction.

Watching the branches of the tree in my front yard dance and sway in the wind and rain.