4.6.26 - Guess Who's BACK
On 9.26.25 <https://knxnts.xyz/blog-9.26.25.html> I wrote a blog about some of the challenges I was facing.
Well, I don’t want to speak too soon. But it looks like everything is looking up, professionally, academically, and personally after my fiasco from last summer. I have good career news but can’t really discuss because I don’t want to self-doxx. But things are more or less GOOD.
I spent the entirety of the fall semester locked in and muscling through to get my post graduate situation all sorted. And I spent a great deal of this semester working for a very cool organization and just having a lot of FUN with my friends and classmates. 3LOLing indeed.
But in the meantime, I have neglected this passion project of mine. I got some very kind emails during my period of silence which have encouraged me to get back to POASTING.
I want to write more insane manifestos and put more nonsense on the internet—but HUMAN nonsense! Unadulterated, human nonsense and thoughts. That is the only way to fight back against slop.
I’ve been buzzing with thoughts and my hard drive is filled with half-baked blog ideas.
Something something CLAVICULAR as a reductio ad absurdum for optimization/efficiency culture. Louis Theroux’s latest documentary, and how his skills compare to those of Theo Vons?? I watched HONEY BOY and it was amazing!
Rediscovering the economy as a set of cultural activities and status bargaining in the face of Artificial Intelligence wiping out jobs? That’s a theory that I’ve developed quite a bit and I have a very long transcript from a three-hour phone call with a friend I want to adapt.
Also, the folk-wisdom of normies on competition policy. That’s something I’ve been thinking about. If you asked ordinary people what fair economic competition looked like, what do they say? I’ve been doing this with my friends at dinner parties and have always found it charming that they reinvent brandeisian/jeffersonian views from first principles. In fact I could write a whole series on whether you would arrive at current doctrinal rules in ANY topic by just asking people a shitton of questions.
Also, the Orange Man remains bad and I have MANY thoughts on that >: (
Keeping up with my luddite vibe I now own a flip phone which my main iPhone forwards all my calls to. HIGHLY RECOMMEND. Great for going on walks, locking in.
I READ AKIRA Volume ONE. AMAZING!
This is all to say, I’ve been alive and as filled with thoughts as ever.
WHY HAVEN’T I BEEN POSTING!??
As I said in my last post (which was really just a technical proof of concept), it is partially because of the frictions involved with actually running a website in this manner. As you can see, this isn’t a wordpress or anything and its very manual. Its not hard. Its just annoying. After I write something there’s like four to five more steps involved and I’m VERY LAZY.
So, I designed a new system where I could just send emails to a specific address that then does some magic and updates my site. It’s fucking crazy.
But other than the friction element, I’ve been doing something I haven’t done nearly enough in in law school thusfar and that’s GOOFING OFF with friends. I been drinkin n shit with the homies xP. Life is short.
But its also so short, that I don’t think I can go this long ever again with sharing a thought on the internet. And I think my postgrad job will be setup in such a way that I’ll have some mental space reserved for such nonsense.
So let’s see if we can post a blog a day for the rest of my life, shall we?
Cheers,
knxnts