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"https://eliotpeper.com/2020/02/how-ceos-are-using-sci-fi-to-imagine-the-future.html", "published_at": "2020-02-03T19:18:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-cfab-7397-a938-b89b1a1c25d1", "title": "William Gibson on tracking reality’s Fuckedness Quotient", "url": "https://eliotpeper.com/2020/01/william-gibson-on-tracking-realitys-fuckedness-quotient.html", "published_at": "2020-01-25T16:48:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c555-38c4-7146-a85b-f3856cd96229", "title": "Interview on Balance the Grind", "url": "https://eliotpeper.com/2020/01/interview-on-balance-grind.html", "published_at": "2020-01-20T03:18:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c555-38c4-7146-a85b-f3856d27e9fb", "title": "Ted Chiang on the most interesting aspect of time travel", "url": "https://eliotpeper.com/2020/01/ted-chiang-on-most-interesting-aspect.html", "published_at": "2020-01-16T08:56:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c555-38c4-7146-a85b-f3856dfbcae9", "title": "My interview with Nick Harkaway was longlisted for the BSFA Award", "url": "https://eliotpeper.com/2020/01/my-interview-with-nick-harkaway-was-longlisted-for-the-bsfa-award.html", "published_at": "2020-01-13T19:04:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c555-38c4-7146-a85b-f3856eb93d09", "title": "What sci-fi can tell us about the future", "url": "https://eliotpeper.com/2020/01/what-sci-fi-can-tell-us-about-future.html", "published_at": "2020-01-11T07:03:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c555-38c4-7146-a85b-f3856ed8b4eb", "title": "Advice for authors", "url": "https://eliotpeper.com/2020/01/advice-for-authors.html", "published_at": "2020-01-04T15:18:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c555-38c4-7146-a85b-f3856f8c8eb9", "title": "The best books I read in 2019", "url": "https://eliotpeper.com/2019/12/the-best-books-i-read-in-2019.html", "published_at": "2019-12-28T15:58:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c555-38c4-7146-a85b-f3856f937d7c", "title": "When is a project done?", "url": "https://eliotpeper.com/2019/12/when-is-project-done.html", "published_at": "2019-12-18T08:28:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c555-38c4-7146-a85b-f385708f6bf9", "title": "In Praise of Sci-Fi Determinism", "url": "https://eliotpeper.com/2019/12/in-praise-of-sci-fi-determinism.html", "published_at": "2019-12-03T13:45:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c555-38c4-7146-a85b-f385712eaf49", "title": "Why we suspend disbelief", "url": "https://eliotpeper.com/2019/11/why-we-suspend-disbelief.html", "published_at": "2019-11-26T03:25:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c555-38c4-7146-a85b-f38571c42f06", "title": "Finding your voice", "url": "https://eliotpeper.com/2019/11/finding-your-voice.html", "published_at": "2019-11-22T00:53:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55d-73be-7375-881f-bf63685745fa", "title": "Government is a technology, so fix it like one", "url": "https://eliotpeper.com/2019/11/government-is-technology-so-fix-it-like.html", "published_at": "2019-11-12T09:28:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55d-73bf-705e-a711-8f7f8b984764", "title": "Kevin Kelly on how technology creates opportunity", "url": "https://eliotpeper.com/2019/10/kevin-kelly-on-how-technology-creates-opportunity.html", "published_at": "2019-10-27T03:31:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55d-73bf-705e-a711-8f7f8bc04ff2", "title": "To write a novel", "url": "https://eliotpeper.com/2019/10/to-write-novel.html", "published_at": "2019-10-22T00:21:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55d-73bf-705e-a711-8f7f8c033fa3", "title": "There aren’t even any endings", "url": "https://eliotpeper.com/2019/10/there-arent-even-any-endings.html", "published_at": "2019-10-02T04:36:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55d-73bf-705e-a711-8f7f8cdc0a47", "title": "Formal instruction is never a prerequisite for making good art", "url": "https://eliotpeper.com/2019/09/formal-instruction-is-never-a-prerequisite-for-making-good-art.html", "published_at": "2019-09-05T20:34:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55d-73bf-705e-a711-8f7f8d8ba278", "title": "Cory Doctorow on dystopia as a state of mind", "url": "https://eliotpeper.com/2019/08/cory-doctorow-on-dystopia-as-state-of.html", 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Writing is a tool for making new ideas original ↗

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The beauty of playing the long game original ↗

16 Aug 2022

The Four Laws of Making a Website*original ↗

28 Jul 2022

Concept Art original ↗

23 Jul 2022

Wizards Meddling In the Source Code of Life original ↗

19 Jul 2022

Writing Reap3r original ↗

18 May 2022

The most useful, beautiful, and dangerous of humanity’s inventions original ↗

1 Mar 2022

What Writers Do original ↗

18 Jan 2022

Refracting Reality Into Rainbows of Possibility original ↗

12 Jan 2022

Narrative as Crowbar original ↗

3 Jan 2022

2021

Please fix it!original ↗

7 Dec 2021

Pull a Single Thread, and the Universe Unravels original ↗

2 Dec 2021

How I Write Books original ↗

17 Nov 2021

Scholars of Causation original ↗

11 Nov 2021

A Recipe for Adventure original ↗

1 Nov 2021

Heroes Are Whoever’s Left When Everyone Else Runs Away original ↗

22 Oct 2021

A Swing, a Miss, and a Burrito original ↗

15 Oct 2021

Rugby original ↗

8 Oct 2021

Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone on writing This Is How You Lose the Time War original ↗

19 Aug 2021

Ten popular Bandwidth highlights, annotated original ↗

6 Aug 2021

Loosen the straps original ↗

9 Jul 2021

Brad Feld on Nietzsche for creators original ↗

15 Jun 2021

Blake Crouch on writing Summer Frost original ↗

3 Jun 2021

“Can I get your take on something?”original ↗

15 May 2021

Can speculative fiction teach us anything in a world this crazy?original ↗

1 May 2021

Ideas aren’t unique, execution is original ↗

15 Apr 2021

Literary leverage original ↗

5 Apr 2021

Stories are Trojan Horses for ideas original ↗

28 Mar 2021

Strange and incongruous relation original ↗

22 Mar 2021

Cory Doctorow on writing Attack Surface original ↗

14 Mar 2021

Yogurt original ↗

21 Feb 2021

Magic original ↗

9 Feb 2021

Bridging the personal and the universal original ↗

4 Feb 2021

Reassurance original ↗

24 Jan 2021

Narrative daisy-chains original ↗

18 Jan 2021

Be Bold original ↗

5 Jan 2021

2020

The Path original ↗

27 Dec 2020

How to do interesting work original ↗

21 Dec 2020

A pop band that talks about complicated emotions original ↗

14 Dec 2020

Quantity is a route to quality, not its opposite original ↗

12 Dec 2020

Silence original ↗

12 Dec 2020

Granular verisimilitude original ↗

8 Dec 2020

The Science of Fiction on Veil original ↗

6 Dec 2020

The Mad King original ↗

30 Nov 2020

Italo Calvino on what makes great writing great original ↗

30 Nov 2020

Making machines human-readable original ↗

24 Nov 2020

Lasting value original ↗

29 Oct 2020

Kim Stanley Robinson on inventing plausible utopias original ↗

13 Oct 2020

Don DeLillo on the overview effect original ↗

4 Sept 2020

Chapter 0 original ↗

25 Aug 2020

Broken, but not irreparable original ↗

12 Aug 2020

Stories are bicycles original ↗

29 Jul 2020

How to make sense of complex ideas original ↗

17 Jul 2020

Creativity is a choice original ↗

2 Jul 2020

Don’t forget to feed your soul original ↗

22 Jun 2020

Paul McAuley on writing Anthropocene fiction original ↗

14 Jun 2020

How to Kill a Dragon original ↗

10 Jun 2020

Veil original ↗

20 May 2020

What If a Tech CEO Tried to Save the World With Geoengineering?original ↗

19 May 2020

Viktor Frankl on success original ↗

14 May 2020

Imagining the future original ↗

6 May 2020

Kim Stanley Robinson on how we live in a science fiction novel that we’re writing together original ↗

3 May 2020

Lewis Thomas on the awe-inspiring collective project of human language original ↗

27 Apr 2020

The promises and perils of geoengineering original ↗

23 Apr 2020

John McPhee on writing as selection original ↗

20 Apr 2020

Cultivating a sense of presence original ↗

17 Apr 2020

Alix E. Harrow on opening doors to other worlds original ↗

13 Apr 2020

The life lesson that Edward Snowden learned from Super Mario Bros.original ↗

11 Apr 2020

Andy Matuschak and Michael Nielsen on the possibility space for quantum computing original ↗

8 Apr 2020

How to overcome creative blocks original ↗

7 Apr 2020

Ursula K. Le Guin on the book as technology original ↗

5 Apr 2020

Announcing Veil original ↗

24 Mar 2020

Maria Popova on reality’s density of wonder original ↗

18 Mar 2020

Oliver Morton on science journalism and humanity’s fascination with the moon original ↗

7 Mar 2020

Why companies are hiring sci-fi writers to imagine the future original ↗

3 Mar 2020

What’s worked for me as a novelist original ↗

13 Feb 2020

How Reading Books Instead Of News Made Me A Better Citizen original ↗

7 Feb 2020

Seth Godin’s new workshop for creatives original ↗

5 Feb 2020

How CEOs are using sci-fi to imagine the future original ↗

3 Feb 2020

William Gibson on tracking reality’s Fuckedness Quotient original ↗

25 Jan 2020

Interview on Balance the Grind original ↗

20 Jan 2020

Ted Chiang on the most interesting aspect of time travel original ↗

16 Jan 2020

My interview with Nick Harkaway was longlisted for the BSFA Award original ↗

13 Jan 2020

What sci-fi can tell us about the future original ↗

11 Jan 2020

Advice for authors original ↗

4 Jan 2020

2019

The best books I read in 2019 original ↗

28 Dec 2019

When is a project done?original ↗

18 Dec 2019

In Praise of Sci-Fi Determinism original ↗

3 Dec 2019

Why we suspend disbelief original ↗

26 Nov 2019

Finding your voice original ↗

22 Nov 2019

Government is a technology, so fix it like one original ↗

12 Nov 2019

Kevin Kelly on how technology creates opportunity original ↗

27 Oct 2019

To write a novel original ↗

22 Oct 2019

There aren’t even any endings original ↗

2 Oct 2019

Formal instruction is never a prerequisite for making good art original ↗

5 Sept 2019

Cory Doctorow on dystopia as a state of mind original ↗

22 Aug 2019

Annalee Newitz on who owns the future original ↗

22 Aug 2019

Alexander Weinstein on how technology is changing what it means to be human original ↗

22 Aug 2019

Omar El Akkad on how to avoid American ruin original ↗

22 Aug 2019

Malka Older on the future of democracy original ↗

17 Aug 2019