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when people ask what i do for work
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There are 140 days left until my one way flight from Toronto to Malaysia. This newsletter is time-boxed, in a “pop-up” style. The writing is seasonal, with a hard stop after my summer in Toronto ends. Members can expect around 20 emails (one per week). Once finished, I will wipe our email list clean. Poof. https://6to6.ca
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You see, it is to the other self, to yote, that things happen. Yote may walk about loafers lake and pause, almost mechanically, to contemplate a demons hand pointing to a pig. The name tagged by yote is a message to the people on the path. They see yote spraypainted by bridges; reminders of the persona that exists separately from the painter. A signal that across from the devil and his pig, there is yote at the end of the tunnel.
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also on todays bike ride
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on todays bike ride
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I don’t want your mwah, need your mouth on something else, gimme that gluck gluck.
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In late 2024, I briefly went phoneless after losing my iPhone. For that month, armed only with a notebook, I found writing to be slow, boring, but thoughtful (if the person has a story). Having no iPhone was inconvenient (especially when travelling from Toronto to Miami to the Bahamas to LA). Yet it reminded me that constraints are necessary to make good art. This experiment shaped my decision to draft all future newsletters first by hand.
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It is to my other self, to rushil, that things happen. I walk about streets in toronto and I pause, almost mechanically, to contemplate the homeless man sleeping in front of a stock exchange or the people in a club. Emails for rushil come to me in the inbox, and I see his name on a short list of consultants or on LinkedIn. I am fond of flip-phones, notebooks, eighteenth century calligraphy, the meaning of words, the tang of nicotine, and the prose of Dostoyevsky. Large language models share these enthusiasms, but in a rather vain and theatrical way. It would be an exaggeration to call our relationship hostile. I live, I agree to go on living, so that LLMs may fashion its literature; that literature justifies me. I do not mind admitting machines have managed to write a few worthwhile words, but these words cannot save me, perhaps because good writing belongs to nobody, not even to AI, but rather to language itself, to tradition.
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the whore knows the day will never come when she fucks pain free. she has to play hurt.
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hunter s thomson narrating a story of mine: Phoneless in Toronto I lost my iPhone at the tail end of 2024—pure chaos and a blessing in disguise. No more dopamine drips, no more endless scrolls. Just me, a busted Bic pen, and a dollar-store notebook. I wandered Toronto like a lunatic, scribbling street names and phone numbers, using Union Station payphones like it was wartime espionage. People stared. I didn’t care. I was free—feral, even. Then came the CAT S-22 Flip. A touchscreen brick. Android, but barely. It did what it had to: calls, texts, the occasional map if I begged it. Everything else was pain. Tried to use it in Miami to claim VIP tickets for Rolling Loud—disaster. The phone wheezed under pressure. Security looked at me like I’d crawled out of a bunker. Still, I survived. And for a moment, I remembered what it felt like to be human. Raw, analog, beautifully inconvenient.
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In the era where people have noticed the “art” in artificial intelligence, writers and creators are having an existential crisis. They forget that people are clouds and large language models are clocks.
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Writing a weekly newsletter is a clock problem. Attracting members and gathering an audience to read what I write is a cloud problem.
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Karl Popper distinguished between clock problems, which are logical, analyzable, and have clear solutions (like fixing a broken clock), and cloud problems, which are complex, unpredictable, and socially entangled, with no definitive solutions—only better or worse outcomes (like solving traffic).
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the digital equivalent to a magazine is what? substack doesn’t give magazine energy. personal newsletters could be but depends on the vibe it brings to its members. now with AI art getting easier to use is there a point to magazines even? Modern magazine trends have tiktok to rely on today. What influence do newsletters play on culture? What role will publishing play in the era where people ask AI to ghiblify photos of themselves?
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who is rushil? rushil is someone who gives into impulse. rushil’s vices are merely execution. rushil gives wims to desire, and brings attachment to will, fully aware that everyone worships something. rushil is all of us. rushil finds meaning in creation. Whether it be known by others or rushil himself, he will leave an immutable mark, despite rushil’s perishable presence.
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would Yote be on farcaster? prob not but the day this app goes mainstream is when Yote joins
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finding Yote.
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ok lemme get this straight. so farcaster is a protocol. back when pets.com was a thing, companies deployed software using protocols ttp, https, and smtp (if they were smart). Then the 2000 web bubble crashed because of the bandwagons and grifters. Then 2008 housing bubble crashes because of incompetent bankers and landlords. This causes someone to solve the Byzantine problem, which provides a blockchain as a solution. Currency becomes the premise of blockchains to replace reliance of banks and gold, but people found blockchains are technology that allows for digital scarcity within an abundant spaces (the internet, which is just a copy machine fundamentally). Then comes Ethereum, becoming a general purpose version of a blockchain by introducing smart contracts. Fast forward to farcaster using the tech to become a protocol, but with monetary and AI capabilities baked into its software. Not to mention, it’s still shit (yet), same with ethereum, and bitcoin has yet to enter the mainstream. what I miss?
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closet organization and finding place for books
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When people ask what I do I tell them I write haikus for a niche community in a decentralized social media. It’s not much but it’s honest work
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