I might buy too many books. I mean, clearly. Look at the pristine spines on those books on my desk. Nary one of them has been cracked beyond a brief thumb-through. That said, though, I love my books. One of the reasons I like getting a PhD so much is...

I’ve been spending some time tonight going through all of the software I use (or say I use) in my writing process. It’s a fairly extensive list with a bunch of unnecessary applications: Ulysses Journey MindNode Scapple Microsoft Word Scrivener Blogo OmniOutliner MarginNote Zotero Evernote OmniGraffle Aeon Timeline Todoist Pomodoro...

Another entry from my masters journal. This one is from February 12, 2014. I had been reading/listening to Moby Dick and felt that there were some themes therein connected to the ideas of mind, brain, and the homunculus. I’ve been reading Moby Dick (1851) by Herman Melville this week. Aside...

I originally wrote this post on January 29th as a journal response to the excerpted quote from “Incomplete Nature” by Terrence W. Deacon. The exercise was to do a hermeneutic analysis of a particular phrase or idea that caught our attention. I love the idea of combining two, ultimately juxtaposed...

I originally wrote this on November 7, 2013 for my masters seminar. It’s some of my early thoughts on how the idea of autopoesis might apply to problems. In this case, the problem of how to design a comfortable chair … I am sitting here in my garret office, the sound...