I'm Nat Bennett, and you're reading Mere Being, a monthly(ish) newsletter about staring at code that you wrote last month while microscopic Von Neumann machines tried to melt my lungs.| Simpler Machines
Howdy! Been a minute. Between an intense contract and the election, my writing fell off a cliff this year – all of it. Newsletter, journalling, fiction, email – all of it. I owe several of you messages, which I expect to get to over the next few days. This has| Simpler Machines
Hello! Hello! Things have been crazy around here, in the way that contracting occasionally gets — for a hot minute I had effectively three jobs, but things are wrapping up and settling in and generally feeling a lot more manageable. Still don’t have news I can share on| Simpler Machines
“I knew you’d love this.” Is there anything more delicious? One of my favorite sensations of this meme age — a friend was scrolling, saw something, and thought of you.| Simpler Machines
There are people trying to get us back to that disaster vibe – but – I dunno – society-as-a-whole has escaped TheGlobalChatroomSlashAnxietyReflectionMatrix and I think everyone's chilled out a lot.| Simpler Machines
It's almost May, and boy is it – the weather's getting so nice that I get annoyed when I go outside without a jacket and it's cold. When I first moved here from New York City I could be outside in shirtsleeves no problem – 60 degrees was a warm spring day.| Simpler Machines