Mortimus
Rohan Uddin, Allahyar RehmanWe play Glass Bead Games, and condense knowledge. Sometimes freewheeling, sometimes specific, never boring.
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| Issues | 48 | Founded | 5 years ago | Last Issue | 4 months ago |
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The Importance of Worldbuilding
Editors note: Welcome to issue #4 of Transcriptions.
Mortimus has been on a bit of a lull lately. Both of us are heads down on new projects and this newsletter has taken a hit. It’s time to rectify that.
So today, we’d like to present th...
The Arc of a Career
Welcome back, and welcome to all the new readers who've joined us! It's been six months since our last essay—longer than we intended, but we've been working on some projects behind the scenes that have kept us fully heads-down.
As we buil...
Lessons from Media Players
I am a great believer in diaries, if only in the sense that bar exercises are good for ballet dancers: it’s often through personal diaries—however embarrassing they are to read now—that the novelist discovers his true bent—that he can narra...
The Green Frogs of Roy Cohn
The Green Frogs of Roy Cohn
OVER THE PAST few weeks, we’ve been asked many times why we chose consilience as our central motto1. What follows is a quick exploration of that answer.
When E.O. Wilson first introduced the term, he...
The SV Canon, AI agent interfaces, ontology, and more
The Silicon Valley Canon
TANNER GREER IS BACK with another great essay, this time writing about what makes a ‘tech canon’. We’ve always been fascinated by the idea of canons, syllabi and great books; one of our very first essays...
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