Neal Stephenson's Substack. Mostly about the intersection of tech and art, with some excursions, digressions, and tangents. I will talk about projects I'm actively working on. I have a personal financial interest in some of those.
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Because I am known to write using a fountain pen on paper, a number of people have pointed me to this post and its underlying research. I won’t rehash what is said in those sources, but the gist of it is that when you write things down by hand you’re recruiting more of your brain, which is a good thing.
In November I made a post registering some objections to an article on the A16Z website claiming that some of my books stopped in mid-sentence.
photo by AmericanButters - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=104151801
Just a quick post here to mention the upcoming tour for my next book.
Sampling the greatest prose stylist ever
Reflections on the latest and greatest Death of the Metaverse
Just a quick note to mention that I’m being impersonated by someone using the email address “contactnealstephenson (at) gmail (dot) com” and sending out emails consisting of AI slop that I wouldn’t be caught dead writing.
Spark gaps, smoked disks, sonic booms, and a guillotine
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Shortly after the end of the Second World War, a German man visited his eye doctor complaining of “floaters” — little specks drifting around in his field of vision.
