Russell Blickhan
@rwblickhan.org
writer and programmer
gainfully employed by descript
epicurean in the philosophical sense
fan of corvids and canines
gainfully employed by descript
epicurean in the philosophical sense
fan of corvids and canines
Reposted by Russell Blickhan
Very sorry to hear about the death of Tom Lehrer at age 97. The cleverest, funniest singer/songwriter of all time, even if he lost interest in the whole business pretty quickly? www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIlJ...
Tom Lehrer - National Brotherhood Week
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July 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Very sorry to hear about the death of Tom Lehrer at age 97. The cleverest, funniest singer/songwriter of all time, even if he lost interest in the whole business pretty quickly? www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIlJ...
Reposted by Russell Blickhan
Wrote up my takeaways from an AI-heavy Droidcon 2025!
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Droidcon NYC 2025 Takeaways and Reflections
Droidcon 2025 reflections, featuring AI.
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July 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Wrote up my takeaways from an AI-heavy Droidcon 2025!
proandroiddev.com/droidcon-nyc...
proandroiddev.com/droidcon-nyc...
wrote a linkblog: buttondown.com/rwblickhan/a...
Good Old Fashioned Linkblog
It’s been a while since I’ve done a good-old-fashioned link blog! So here’s some things I’ve been reading recently: “A cheat sheet for why using ChatGPT is...
buttondown.com
May 8, 2025 at 5:12 AM
wrote a linkblog: buttondown.com/rwblickhan/a...
wrote up some thoughts on why hammerspoon is cool
buttondown.com/rwblickhan/a...
buttondown.com/rwblickhan/a...
Automating the Personal
Is there really value in personal automation? I wrote a whole essay on Raycast and I’m still not really sure. Even though xkcd has a helpful chart for how...
buttondown.com
May 2, 2025 at 12:15 AM
wrote up some thoughts on why hammerspoon is cool
buttondown.com/rwblickhan/a...
buttondown.com/rwblickhan/a...
wrote up a spiraling appreciation of libraries:
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My Other Brain is a Library
Choose your own adventure
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April 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
wrote up a spiraling appreciation of libraries:
rwblickhan.org/essays/my-ot...
rwblickhan.org/essays/my-ot...
@buttondown.com it looks like the sign-in page is down (alas that I cannot sign in to spew my logorrhea upon the world)
March 11, 2025 at 4:53 AM
@buttondown.com it looks like the sign-in page is down (alas that I cannot sign in to spew my logorrhea upon the world)
yesterday I wrote a lil newsletter about how I personally feel about the ethics of using LLMs but then @robinsloan.com wrote the (imo definitive) account so you should read that instead: www.robinsloan.com/lab/is-it-ok...
Is it okay?
Squaring up to the foundational question for language models.
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February 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
yesterday I wrote a lil newsletter about how I personally feel about the ethics of using LLMs but then @robinsloan.com wrote the (imo definitive) account so you should read that instead: www.robinsloan.com/lab/is-it-ok...
come, take a 5-minute break from the news, bake some cookies with me
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Cocktail Cookies
No alcohol required
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February 6, 2025 at 1:20 AM
come, take a 5-minute break from the news, bake some cookies with me
rwblickhan.org/essays/cockt...
rwblickhan.org/essays/cockt...
today feels like a good day to read james c scott’s final published work
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Intellectual Diary of an Iconoclast | Annual Reviews
Trying to address a series of large questions—e.g., when peasants rebel, clandestine forms of resistance, state “imagination,” and the origin of the very first agrarian states—led me to abandon much o...
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January 21, 2025 at 6:31 AM
today feels like a good day to read james c scott’s final published work
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
I got 70 and most of my other friends were in the 90s 🫠
January 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I got 70 and most of my other friends were in the 90s 🫠
wrote up some of my favorite movies I watched last year (yes megalopolis is on there)
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rwblickhan.org/newsletters/...
That Was The Year That Was in Movies
The personal site of R. W. Blickhan
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December 30, 2024 at 10:22 PM
wrote up some of my favorite movies I watched last year (yes megalopolis is on there)
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rwblickhan.org/newsletters/...
Russell Blickhan: "I also have an older essay on "analyzing" and "synthesizing" thinking styles that may be of interest:
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Analyzing and Synthesizing Thinking Styles
A novel thinking style distinction
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December 24, 2024 at 10:08 PM
Russell Blickhan: "I also have an older essay on "analyzing" and "synthesizing" thinking styles that may be of interest:
rwblickhan.org/essays/think...
rwblickhan.org/essays/think...
new essay up, on a distinction between farming and foraging thinking styles:
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Farmers & Foragers
A literary distinction, not an occupational one
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December 24, 2024 at 10:07 PM
new essay up, on a distinction between farming and foraging thinking styles:
rwblickhan.org/essays/farme...
rwblickhan.org/essays/farme...
I list a few in the article! rwblickhan.org/technical/wh...
But to be honest, I don't really use that many extensions — 90% of the value I get out of Raycast is from the built-in commands 😅
But to be honest, I don't really use that many extensions — 90% of the value I get out of Raycast is from the built-in commands 😅
Why I Use Raycast
Keyboard shortcuts for days
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December 9, 2024 at 1:37 AM
I list a few in the article! rwblickhan.org/technical/wh...
But to be honest, I don't really use that many extensions — 90% of the value I get out of Raycast is from the built-in commands 😅
But to be honest, I don't really use that many extensions — 90% of the value I get out of Raycast is from the built-in commands 😅
wrote up some of the reasons I love (love love love) @raycast.com. genuinely not sure how I would use my mac without it 🙃
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rwblickhan.org/technical/wh...
Why I Use Raycast
Keyboard shortcuts for days
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December 9, 2024 at 12:49 AM
wrote up some of the reasons I love (love love love) @raycast.com. genuinely not sure how I would use my mac without it 🙃
rwblickhan.org/technical/wh...
rwblickhan.org/technical/wh...
Why I Use Fish Shell
Finally, a command line shell for the 90s
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December 5, 2024 at 8:36 PM
Cui Jian: Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST 2023
YouTube video by NPR Music
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November 23, 2024 at 5:17 AM
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in my opinion we would do well to spend less time moaning about echo chambers — which aren't unique to online social networks — and more time being critical of context collapse.
November 22, 2024 at 5:28 PM
in my opinion we would do well to spend less time moaning about echo chambers — which aren't unique to online social networks — and more time being critical of context collapse.
newsletter day! in which I ramble for far too long about arcane and Brandon Sanderson and the history of fantasy
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Generic High Fantasy
I was watching the second season of Arcane recently and realized it’s canonizing new “defaults” for the (high) fantasy genre. If you think of the most...
buttondown.com
November 21, 2024 at 6:21 AM
newsletter day! in which I ramble for far too long about arcane and Brandon Sanderson and the history of fantasy
buttondown.com/rwblickhan/a...
buttondown.com/rwblickhan/a...
in honor of open enrollment I wrote a brief guide to us employer-sponsored health insurance (as I understand it)
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Russell’s Brief, Opinionated Guide to US Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance
Wading through a swamp of acronyms for neither fun nor profit
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November 16, 2024 at 4:33 AM
in honor of open enrollment I wrote a brief guide to us employer-sponsored health insurance (as I understand it)
rwblickhan.org/essays/rbog-...
rwblickhan.org/essays/rbog-...
also something something high-agency individuals — kinda sounds like the harding test was adopted in the uk / japan just because there was one (1) neurology professor really pushing for it epilepsysociety.org.uk/news/aston-u...
Aston University professor named among nation's lifesavers for work around photosensitive epilepsy | Epilepsy Society
A professor who spent his life championing people with photosensitive epilepsy has been named as...
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November 15, 2024 at 6:14 AM
also something something high-agency individuals — kinda sounds like the harding test was adopted in the uk / japan just because there was one (1) neurology professor really pushing for it epilepsysociety.org.uk/news/aston-u...