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soulcruzerOct 10, 2026

Murder Most Fowl: A Saturday Morning Mystery

Four suspects. One victim. No witnesses. Breakfast served as normal. I came downstairs this morning to a "murder scene". Feathers everywhere. A dead starling in the middle of the hall. Four cats in the household, none at the scene, and nobody in the kitchen demanding breakfast. Something was wrong. Obviously, things had gone considerably worse...

Attentioncats

soulcruzerOct 9, 2026

What We Mistake for Silence

Clay’s daily note this morning contains a small observation from a hotel room near King’s Cross. Underground trains pass close by every few minutes. He hears them, except that after a while he doesn’t. The sound remains in the room; attention has stopped reporting it. I keep returning to that difference. A thing can continue...

Attentionenvironment

soulcruzerOct 7, 2026

Making my thoughts visible again

I’m writing this from a narrow hotel room near King’s Cross. There’s a single bed, a television on the wall and, most importantly, a decent space to write. The room I had last week was a tiny square that was mostly bed. This one has enough room for a desk and a thought to stretch...

Attentionblogging

soulcruzerSep 28, 2026

An old magazine ad from Orbis caught my …

An old magazine ad from Orbis caught my attention. To see differently you have to think differently, the ad reads. I wondered what it would look like to reverse it, to change the perspective: to think differently you have to see differently. Reversing it shifts the site of change. The original phrase assumes thought goes...

Attentionperception

soulcruzerSep 23, 2026

Notes toward a philosophy of an ordinary life.

1. I have called the blog a place where I think in public. The phrase once felt like permission. I didn’t need to arrive with conclusions. I could show the workings: the question under examination, the half-built bridge, the sentence doubling back because it had discovered something behind it. A space where uncertainty is embraced...

Attentionblogging

soulcruzerSep 21, 2026

In Praise of Wasted Time

I read Joseph Earp’s essay on optimisation and classical music this morning and then went looking for the swans. The swans belonged to Jean Sibelius. On 21 April 1915, he watched sixteen of them circle above him before disappearing into the haze. He called it one of the great experiences of his life. The sight,...

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soulcruzerSep 19, 2026

There is a walk I take where I …

There is a walk I take where I stop knowing, somewhere past the second field, whether I chose the route or the route chose me. My feet just kept turning left. And for a while I told myself a story about wanting the long way round, the light on the hedgerows, all of that —...

Attentionbarefoot-philosopher

soulcruzerSep 19, 2026

There’s a lie folded into the usual pep …

There's a lie folded into the usual pep talk, and it's a comforting one, so it survives. The lie is that if you want something badly enough, the wanting itself does work. Believe hard, and the thing arrives. I've walked with that idea. I've also watched it leave people exactly where it found them —...

Attentiondesire

soulcruzerSep 18, 2026

The antidote is not a better blueprint. It’s …

The antidote is not a better blueprint. It's a different posture. There's a certain kind of ideology loose right now that treats existence as a defect to be patched. The body is a bug. Mortality is an engineering problem. Attention is a resource to be extracted, optimised, and re-sold to you. Being human gets framed...

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soulcruzerSep 16, 2026

The more you want something, the more you …

The more you want something, the more you don’t have it. Desire contains its own evidence of absence. The moment I say I want, I split the world in two: here is the life I’m living, and over there is the life that would finally satisfy me. The wanted thing may be a person, a...

Attentiondesire

soulcruzerSep 9, 2026

The body has its own clocks. What interests …

The body has its own clocks. What interests me here is the mismatch between the body’s rhythm and the story the working day tells about us. The working day assumes a fairly flat human being: switch on in the morning, remain cognitively available for eight hours, then switch off at an administratively acceptable time. If...

Attentioncircadian-rhythm

soulcruzerSep 4, 2026

Time is a nonrenewable resource, but that language …

Time is a nonrenewable resource, but that language can make a life sound like a battery slowly running down. Use it wisely. Don’t waste a drop. Extract maximum value before the whole operation shuts down. There’s truth in the warning, but also a trap. The moment we call time a resource, the manager in the...

Attentionself-knowledge

soulcruzerAug 24, 2026

Some people want to kill time, as if …

Some people want to kill time, as if the hours were an enemy to be disposed of. They scroll, distract themselves, wait for something better to begin. But killing time is a strange ambition. Time and life arrive as the same substance. You can’t murder one without wounding the other. Others want to sidestep time....

AttentionTime

soulcruzerAug 21, 2026

Virus of the spirit. The phrase gets under …

Virus of the spirit. The phrase gets under my skin. It folds biology, information, psychology and magic into a single image: something enters a host, borrows the host’s machinery and reproduces itself. If the host is a person, the machinery is attention, memory, desire, fear, identity and language. A thought enters through a parent’s warning,...

Attentionmagick

soulcruzerAug 17, 2026

The Dorothy Practice: Staying With the Visible World for Another Beat

I am sitting in Bonnie, our caravan, with my morning coffee while the campsite begins to wake around me. A rook is cleaning up the empty pitch next to ours. One of his companions joins him. A little later, on my way to the shower block, I pass a chicken picking crumbs from another camper’s...

AttentionDorothy Wordsworth

soulcruzerAug 14, 2026

This morning I am sitting in Bonnie, our …

This morning I am sitting in Bonnie, our caravan, with a cup of coffee and Dorothy Wordsworth’s The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals open in front of me. We are in a field near Ashbourne on our first trip away in her. Dorothy is writing about walks, weather, meals, visitors, William, and the small movements of...

AttentionDorothy Wordsworth

soulcruzerAug 8, 2026

We talk about consuming books, as though reading …

We talk about consuming books, as though reading were a kind of nutritional exercise: pages in, knowledge out. But the best reading has never felt like consumption to me. It feels more like entering into correspondence with another consciousness across space and time. A conversation where one voice has the strange advantage of having thought...

AttentionBooks

soulcruzerAug 6, 2026

The air has changed. I almost don’t want …

The air has changed. I almost don't want to say it out loud, as if naming it might hurry things along, but there was a trace of winter under the morning. It wasn't cold. The air had acquired an edge, just enough to remind me that the year is already leaning towards another season. Where...

Attentionweblogging

soulcruzerAug 2, 2026

I picked up an old book this morning: …

I picked up an old book this morning: Perceiving Ordinary Magic: Science and Intuitive Wisdom by Jeremy Hayward. The cover is a blue corridor of repeating geometry, the kind of image that used to promise either a difficult physics lecture or a trip through somebody else’s consciousness. Somewhere in its opening territory, Hayward pointed me...

AttentionField Notes

soulcruzerAug 1, 2026

The Map Is Not the Adventure: Reading Rebecca Solnit’s A Field Guide to Getting Lost

I took a different street home the other day. There was no great expedition in it. I was walking back through Southam by a route I know too well, heading toward the familiar turn that gets me home with the least fuss. Then I thought: I could go that way instead. I had no errand...

Attentionblogging

soulcruzerJul 31, 2026

I keep seeing headlines about the new rules …

I keep seeing headlines about the new rules of attention, usually written by somebody who wants to sell a better way of getting hold of it. The old rules were blunt enough. Interrupt people. Startle them. Keep them scrolling. Learn which colours, fears, desires and half-conscious wounds make a thumb hesitate for a second longer....

Attentionattention-economy

Zach GarfieldJun 14, 2026

Science, Social Media, and the Loss of Context

Why I've mostly opted out of algorithmic, for-profit social media, and what science loses when we hand our scholarly discourse to black-box algorithms.

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Zach GarfieldJun 14, 2026

Science, Social Media, and the Loss of Context

Why I've mostly opted out of algorithmic, for-profit social media, and what science loses when we hand our scholarly discourse to black-box algorithms.

social mediascience communication

Christopher HartlineJan 5, 2026

Everything Is Something Else

My new YouTube channel that examines AI and modern work through judgment, context, and long memory.

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