March 7, 2026

Five for Friday 744

Welcome to the weekend,

Here are five things I thought worth sharing this week.

The year is 1862; how would you dress for your portrait to be photographed?

Why your best ideas come after your worst ones. I’ve certainly experienced this phenomenon!

How to be enjoyably well-educated – written by a human, unlike that LLM piece making the rounds.

Wittgenstein’s war notebooks were written in a unique style; on the left, in code, he wrote observations about his day and his work. On the right, he continued his work on the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.

Is the Future of Writing Writing for AI?

Currently reading: The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm

Have a creative weekend.


Image: A sarus crane, a flamingo, a wild bronze turkey cock, two Paduan fowl, a silver birchen game cockerel, and a hoopoe in a landscape. Melchior d’Hondecoeter. 1675.