Bryan

Posts

Writing, Thinking 2020-04-18
All for Nothing 2019-09-25
Midsommar 2019-08-05
On listening to albums 2019-05-29
Sally Rooney’s Normal People 2019-04-09
Dopamine in Daniel Deronda 2019-03-18
An experiment in phonelessness 2019-02-26
The Clock, Part 6: Dusk 2019-02-12
On writing at speed 2019-02-04
The Clock, Part 5: Sunrise 2019-01-11

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Cultivation of the Soul
Part of a series on culture. In 45 BC, when Cicero was 61, his daughter Tullia died shortly after she gave birth. “I have lost the one…
Paper Disintegrates
Part of a series on culture. Nicholas Ostler, in 2005, wrote the impressively ambitious Empires of the Word, and in it sought to trace…
Does art evolve?
Part of a series on culture. Let’s start with the oldest book on my bookshelf that talks about origins of cultural-type things. Aristotle…
On Culture
Lately I’ve been thinking about culture in the broadest of all possible senses, including human behaviour, language, knowledge, beliefs, art…
Walking the Planck
Planck’s principle is bleak. It says that scientists rarely change their minds. Instead, they die, and younger scientists, brought up with…
Where to Start
As there are now a few hundred posts on this site I thought I’d provide some entry points to my writing. Note-taking: I wrote a post on a…
Cycles of youth
The first book that I think of when I think about youth is not the perhaps most obvious — namely Vera Brittain’s Testament of Youth (which…
On Juvenescence
Neoteny, or juvenilization, is the delaying or slowing of the development of an animal. It is, at a cellular or physiological level, the act…
Serotonin and Fasting
This is a continuation of the discussion of serotonin and dopamine begun on this page. I want to talk about fasting. I’m fascinated by the…
Serotonin and Learning
I’m still thinking about the creative/editorial cycles involved in writing and in filters more generally. Kristijan Ivancic pointed out…

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