Lords:

• Maxx


• JP

Topics:

• The different kinds of "changing your mind" in creative work


• What texture did you think clouds were as a kid?


• Infinity Island


• Sleep, by Jorge Luis Borges
  
  
  
  
  • https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=38645
  
  


• Chippendale Mupps and the slowest nerves

Microtopics:

• Knowing the names of zero outdoor cats in your neighborhood.


• Canny outdoor cats who are adapted to city life and don't need your plugs.


• Obi like the belt or like the Star Wars guy?


• Loosey goosey versions


• Changing your mind while making a creative work.


• Moving a door or a window in an existing wall.


• Bigger creative decisions being composed of many smaller creative decisions.


• Retaining maximum flexibility at every point in the process.


• A workflow that reflects the spectrum of flexibility.


• Flexibility Lost is Sturdiness Gained.


• Tweaking the value of pi to suit your needs.


• A system where a bunch of things depend on a bunch of other things.


• Axes of flexibility that you don't end up using.


• More specific categories of types of changing your mind.


• Going down a deep dark hole and finding the glittering prize but not being sure whether it's worth anything.


• A loop that spirals, oscillating, into the middle.


• Putting a branch into a meditation labyrinth and changing its theological meaning.


• Rewriting your novel in second person, present tense, just to see how it feels.


• The Citation Needed guy doubting that mazes can be built with snow.


• The ongoing Corn vs. Maize Wikipedia war.


• The marine layer rolling in.


• Looking at clouds and totally seeing the ice cream.


• Buying aerogel samples on eBay.


• What stuffed animals are stuffed with.


• Going to the sky island and it's sort of rubbery.


• Walkable clouds in the Mario series.


• Cloudjacking.


• Yanking Lakitu out onto the pavement and going on a joyride until the LoJack system kicks in.


• Super Mario Bros. redubbed with Quake and Half-Life sounds.


• Super Mario Bros. Next Gen AAA


• What clouds taste like.


• Fizzy Lifting Drinks.


• The soda with the glass ball.


• Ordering something red hoping for cherry, watermelon or strawberry flavor, but it's cinnamon flavored.


• Eating Red Hots for the first time and realizing you've been Halloween poisoned.


• Your first bitey cinnamon food.


• A little poison, as a treat.


• Filling your mouth with tree bark.


• Games with saved progress feeling like you're participating in a responsible activity than games where you start over every time.


• Deliberate mechanical whimsy.


• Making a complicated game and failing to teach the player how to play it.


• For a Change, by Dan Schmidt.


• An infinite variety of forms of confusion.


• Playing Frog Fractions all the way through and being like "what twist??"


• Why Jorge Luis Borges gets annoyed when people wake him up.


• Semi-routinely yelling in your sleep.


• Being asleep is the inside time.


• Citing Borges as a vibe.


• A mid-pod plug.


• The works of Ted Chiang.


• Internalizing the idea that you need sleep to function.


• Stepping stones of self-reflection.


• Waking up feeling the vague sensations of having dreamt.


• Sleeping with your eyes open.


• Integration of your environment into your dreams.


• Biting your tail before you go to sleep and not feeling it until you wake up.


• Putting keys in your toast.


• Repurposing the Chippendale Mupp's nervous system to make a vintage delay pedal.


• Esports competitors putting the left mouse button between their teeth to improve reaction time, because it's closer to the brain.


• Brains evolving to process whatever whenever and assembling the timeline later.


• Kuratas Heavy Industries.


• Smiling to fire the heavy machine guns.


• Gripens.


• Subway ads exhorting Maximum Lethality!


• The airport nearest to all of the oil fields in the Permean Basin.


• Billboards for enterprise services.


• Wasting eyeballs.


• A couple of active web presences.

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