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+Stinky Gifts From Your Idea Kitty
+
+To attract ideas, carry a notebook.
+
+Suddenly, armed with blank paper, your mind sends details to your attention.
+
+      □ note: eating fiber and/or vinegar before carbs can smooth glucose/
+        fructose spikes
+      □ note: explore the lives/works of Grothendieck and Mochizuki
+      □ note: "Determine value apart from price, progress apart from activity,
+        wealth apart from size." -- Munger
+      □ note: add to reading list: Urban Waterfront Promenades by Macdonald
+
+[6]90% of those ideas are crap. Your mind became a friendly neighborhood cat,
+delivering dead animals to your doorstep. Thank you for your kind gifts, kitty
+-- all these delicate carcasses are so nasty and yet so generous. But your true
+challenge is that 10% of the time, they're taxidermy squirrels stuffed with
+sand and sapphires.
+
+Your mind will never improve at finding good ideas; that cat will always
+deliver 90% crap. What changes is you. You somehow teach yourself to sort and
+salvage. You learn to forgive yourself faster, to bury the dead, and to pay
+proper respect to Nature's harsh whims. You name this new feeling "intuition"
+and "taste" and sometimes "luck".
+
+This phenomenon manifested when I [7]started writing regularly. My hunches
+found a nest. My curiosity grew legs. My mind made miles of piles and infinite
+files for whatever these mountains of words will one day become.
+
+      □ essay: tactical procrastination
+      □ essay: temporal type theory
+      □ essay: gender penmanship gap?
+      □ project: suitcase shaped like a pencil roll; lies flat with many
+        pockets
+      □ note: explore dungeon synth
+      □ essay: licklider's "olivers"
+
+After years of isolating myself, I [8]tried a new platform. It's been
+delightful. I've rekindled old friendships, found new communities, and spread
+lots of laughter.
+
+But as soon I created that profile, my cat changed its patterns. More ideas.
+Smaller ideas. Save this. Share that.
+
+      □ post: writing prompt: in Cool Runnings 2, the Jamaican bobsled team…
+      □ post: is a train a hypoloop?
+      □ essay: John Dewey's cool schools
+      □ post: mosquito net jacket
+      □ post: corporate sabotage: covertly replace the coffee with decaf beans
+        and watch productivity suffer
+      □ post: pic of mom's sad cabbage sandwich
+      □ post: fennel soda
+      □ essay: ethics of anteaters in Zoboomafoo
+      □ post: John Harvey Kellog was a cereal entrepreneur.
+
+These ideas are still ~90% crap, but my intuition cannot yet appraise its new
+deliveries.
+
+My dendrites grow so stiff with age; I'm afraid I'll learn kitty's new tricks
+too slowly this time. Only fools forget that cats have more lives than we poor
+mortals.
+
+I so deeply want all that community -- all that belonging. But I can't afford
+more change. I'll try to visit as often as my old cat allows. Meanwhile, feel
+free to [9]write me a letter. I'll be here, wherever this is.
+
+Before I depart, I'll leave you with a powerful spell: a substrate (e.g.
+notebook, blog, profile, etc) summons its works (e.g. notes, essays, comments,
+etc). This is real magic. Try it at home.
+
+
+References:
+
+[1] https://taylor.town/
+[2] https://taylor.town/about
+[3] https://taylor.town/now
+[4] https://newsletter.taylor.town/
+[5] https://taylor.town/feed.xml
+[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
+[7] https://taylor.town/
+[8] https://bsky.app/profile/taylor.town
+[9] https://taylor.town/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b5ddd0d9d9daf5c1d4ccd9dac79bc1dac2db