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sat, feb 28 2026
TMW is coming along well and I now consider myself an amazing copywriter. of course I have no idea what I am doing bc I am mainly just writing whatever silliness comes to mind wherever there is a section that requires words, but whatever. it’s been fun. also it makes Liam laugh so maybe that’s something.
not being able to do anything but write in iA in the mornings has been making me very creative around spending time doing... nothing. (bc obv there was a longform-writing streak and it has passed, but it will resume again at some point) I meditate, I work out, I walk when I can (right now I can’t bc my foot has been kaput from walking for too long in boots two weeks ago). Or I cook or I just sit. I think spending time doing “nothing” has been very important for.. everything.
tue, feb 3 2026
last week we finally started seriously working on TMW. thematerialwhy.com will be part
fun store stocking whatever we have in... store at the moment
free HD resources
non-free (because time/cost/labor-intensive) HD resources
also, yurp, writing is now easy once again, thanks to having nothing else to do on my mac during the hours of 8am to noon during the week, thanks to 1focus and iawriter. obviously these companies have not paid me to mention them, but I have paid them and am very happy so far with my purchases
also I just noticed that when you enter your email in the subscribe thing on thematerialwhy.com and then confirm your email, doing so then lets you access the site (which is otherwise password protected) and poke around a bit and see that nothing at all is to be seen yet
what power I have just now bestowed upon whoever in the world may be reading this
mon, jan 26 2026
kiryll will be my substack publisher, so I don’t need to interact with the interface for writing, at all. I will be a consumer on the weekends and nothing else. cannot describe what a relief this already is and we haven’t even done anything yet. the substack environment has twirled my writing brain into an ever-tightening knot over the last years and trying to untie it in the very environment it happened is not going to work. maybe it’s never going to be untied, but I can remove myself from the environment.
fiddling with domains and webspace and figuring out where to put what, and how
just purchased iA Writer (working on just doing the thing when I want it and not doing endless cost-benefit calculations in my head beforehand till I am “sure-sure” and also exhausted inside), which exports decent html and also pdfs, so wondering how to make use of this investment to make making and especially maintaining all these sites I like to have on the internet as simple and hassle-free (to my fussy head) as possible
for the book of appetite I have decided to forego styling the HTML completely, for this little project, though, I believe, I will do a little styling to make it easier to read