week 8 / 2026: maps and compasses
Reading round-up: wind-powered freight (and how I think about weak signals); how audiences have come to understand the working of worlds; what science fiction has to teach strategists.
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week 8 / 2026: maps and compasses
Reading round-up: wind-powered freight (and how I think about weak signals); how audiences have come to understand the working of worlds; what science fiction has to teach strategists.
week 7 / 2026: timelines and mailbags
week 6 / 2026: plots and characters
week 5 / 2026: pots and kettles
week 4 / 2026: baleen and blubber
week 3 / 2026: pulp and pith
week 2 / 2026: ... and the circus leaves town
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schedule adjustment notice
Hello, worldbuilders!
Just a quick note to let you know: it occurred to me this morning that my spending a bunch of time compiling weeknotes which don't get emailed to you, only to then spend a shorter amount of time two days later writing a short note alerting
hot in the city 2nite
call it in, take it off
less magic, more traffic
pass the vol-au-vents
the circus comes to town
