Letter - Buckslip

A weekly-ish email letter, since 2016. With the odd hiatus here and there.

147: Refreezing earth’s poles feasible and cheap

in Letter Feb 22, 2023 — 14 min read

We do not fix the world with a sense of wonder alone. Wonder is a starting point and the world is full of it. Use it, don’t stop at it. We have to get to work.

146: Significant nothingness

in Letter Sep 18, 2022 — 18 min read

Luke Perry in a mushroom suit, looking for meaning in absence, and what happens on the roof stays on the roof.

145: Boats get stuck all the time

in Letter Jul 3, 2022 — 14 min read

144: Semantic existentialism

in Letter Mar 13, 2021 — 11 min read

A new BS Original interview, Nabokov on Superman, and many other things both fungible and not.

143: A great sense of belonging

in Letter Mar 1, 2021 — 12 min read

142: Temporal arbitrage

in Letter Feb 14, 2021 — 9 min read

141: Sell your ceiling then, amigo

in Letter Jan 31, 2021 — 13 min read

140: Spelunking in caves of irrationality

in Letter Aug 30, 2020 — 11 min read

Ways to help in Beirut, and some light in dark corners.

139: Treasure never hunted

in Letter Jul 23, 2020 — 7 min read

138: Omens we could do without

in Letter Jun 14, 2020 — 12 min read

137: The world becomes all kestrel

in Letter May 24, 2020 — 10 min read

136: In spite of ourselves

in Letter May 11, 2020 — 10 min read

135: The opposite of distancing

in Letter Mar 29, 2020 — 8 min read

134: Little by little

in Letter Mar 15, 2020 — 6 min read

133: All possible melodies

in Letter Mar 1, 2020 — 6 min read

132: What a house means

in Letter Feb 23, 2020 — 6 min read

131: Obligatory note of hope dot com

in Letter Feb 16, 2020 — 8 min read

130: High-def pitch bends

in Letter Feb 9, 2020 — 6 min read

129: The Macramé of Resistance

in Letter Jan 26, 2020 — 6 min read

128: The heart of the highly strung city

in Letter Jan 19, 2020 — 7 min read

127: No abnormal release of radioactivity

in Letter Jan 12, 2020 — 6 min read

126: Actual humans

in Letter Dec 8, 2019 — 4 min read

125: The algorithms officer

in Letter Dec 1, 2019 — 5 min read

124: Tactical outerwear

in Letter Nov 24, 2019 — 5 min read

123: Some kind of monstera

in Letter Nov 17, 2019 — 5 min read

122: Acutely vulnerable and restlessly lively

in Letter Nov 3, 2019 — 5 min read

121: Stock beauty, stock truth

in Letter Oct 20, 2019 — 5 min read

120: One weird trick

in Letter Oct 13, 2019 — 4 min read

119: Is it over?

in Letter Sep 29, 2019 — 5 min read

118: Good Good, Bad Good

in Letter Sep 22, 2019 — 6 min read

117: Hi, How Are You

in Letter Sep 15, 2019 — 9 min read

116: The Deleted Years

in Letter Sep 8, 2019 — 5 min read

115: Oops

in Letter Sep 2, 2019 — 4 min read

114: Complex combat accounting

in Letter Aug 25, 2019 — 6 min read

113: Antisocial perversity

in Letter Jul 21, 2019 — 7 min read

112: A prescient bit of parody

in Letter Jul 14, 2019 — 3 min read

111: The language of birds

in Letter Jul 7, 2019 — 4 min read

110: The possible-but-not-yet

in Letter Jun 23, 2019 — 5 min read

109: Siren-Blaring PDFs

in Letter Jun 9, 2019 — 5 min read

108: Big Named Theories

in Letter Jun 2, 2019 — 5 min read

107: Arguing about what's punk

in Letter May 20, 2019 — 5 min read

106: The helium mines

in Letter May 12, 2019 — 7 min read

105: The Socialist Lavatory League

in Letter May 5, 2019 — 5 min read

104: The meme union

in Letter Apr 29, 2019 — 5 min read

103: Harvesting Garfields from the coastline

in Letter Mar 31, 2019 — 6 min read

102: There’s a German word for that.

in Letter Mar 24, 2019 — 5 min read

101: No subject. None whatsoever.

in Letter Mar 17, 2019 — 4 min read

💯: A hell of a drug

in Letter Mar 10, 2019 — 4 min read

099: Things are only as real as we agree they are

in Letter Mar 3, 2019 — 4 min read

098: A barrel of crabs

in Letter Feb 24, 2019 — 4 min read

097: This monkey’s gone to heaven

in Letter Feb 17, 2019 — 5 min read

096: Pivots and penny-pinching

in Letter Feb 11, 2019 — 6 min read

095: Bad to decent to good to great

in Letter Feb 3, 2019 — 5 min read

094: Turning every page

in Letter Jan 27, 2019 — 6 min read

093: Dumb ice fortress

in Letter Jan 20, 2019 — 5 min read

092: A predictable repetition of an existing form

in Letter Jan 13, 2019 — 4 min read

091: Big punk data

in Letter Jan 6, 2019 — 4 min read

090: Hurricane Juul

in Letter Dec 23, 2018 — 3 min read

089: Back talk

in Letter Dec 16, 2018 — 3 min read

088: Crazy 88s

in Letter Dec 9, 2018 — 3 min read

087: Don't Look Now

in Letter Dec 2, 2018 — 6 min read

086: Inconceivable!

in Letter Nov 18, 2018 — 4 min read

085: Gif the gif of life

in Letter Nov 11, 2018 — 4 min read

084: Everything above the neck

in Letter Nov 4, 2018 — 3 min read

083: Octoberness

in Letter Oct 28, 2018 — 4 min read

082: TED talks, bullshit

in Letter Oct 21, 2018 — 5 min read

081: Fly me to the moonmoon

in Letter Oct 14, 2018 — 5 min read

080: Desirable difficulty

in Letter Oct 8, 2018 — 5 min read

079: Bull Market Meathead

in Letter Sep 30, 2018 — 3 min read

078: 100% Askance

in Letter Sep 23, 2018 — 2 min read

077: Manly jibberish

in Letter Sep 16, 2018 — 6 min read

076: Endless Summer

in Letter Jul 8, 2018 — 1 min read

075: Stinky, funky, post-apocalyptic

in Letter Jun 24, 2018 — 3 min read

074: The Know-Nothing Bees

in Letter Jun 17, 2018 — 4 min read

073: The dinkus

in Letter Jun 10, 2018 — 4 min read

072: Nudge theory at work

in Letter Jun 3, 2018 — 2 min read

071: 2car2go

in Letter May 27, 2018 — 3 min read

070: Conflict amethyst

in Letter May 13, 2018 — 3 min read

069: Wholesome chill

in Letter May 6, 2018 — 3 min read

068: Love a firm handshake

in Letter Apr 29, 2018 — 2 min read

067: Anything but cocaine

in Letter Apr 22, 2018 — 3 min read

066: Ice Storm Blues (Just take Shaq’s word for it)

in Letter Apr 15, 2018 — 4 min read

065: These digital kids

in Letter Apr 8, 2018 — 3 min read

064: Hiding from the Fools

in Letter Apr 1, 2018 — 3 min read

063: In the navel of the moon

in Letter Mar 18, 2018 — 3 min read

062: This little piggy went to market

in Letter Mar 11, 2018 — 4 min read

061: Inclusion rider

in Letter Mar 5, 2018 — 3 min read

060: Sucks to be Snap

in Letter Feb 25, 2018 — 3 min read

059: Boot camp

in Letter Feb 18, 2018 — 3 min read

058: On Netflix' mailing of DVDs 💿

in Letter Feb 11, 2018 — 3 min read

057: The word for world is forest

in Letter Feb 4, 2018 — 4 min read

056: Marching, one by one, hurrah hurrah

in Letter Jan 21, 2018 — 3 min read

055: "There" "is" "no" "threat"

in Letter Jan 14, 2018 — 3 min read

054: Smooth mouth feel

in Letter Jan 7, 2018 — 4 min read

053: Nice list

in Letter Dec 17, 2017 — 3 min read

052: Bitslip buckcoin

in Letter Dec 10, 2017 — 3 min read

051: Pivot as a Product

in Letter Dec 3, 2017 — 3 min read

050: Special Golden Jubilee Collector’s Edition

in Letter Nov 26, 2017 — 4 min read

049: The Quiet Style

in Letter Nov 19, 2017 — 4 min read

048: A joke about a future that never arrived

in Letter Nov 12, 2017 — 4 min read

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