Brendan
Find me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/schlagetown
Currently building a platform for people-focused learning on the internet: https://hyperlink.academy/
I run a website where I collect & share all kinds of fascinating books: https://www.antilibrari.es/
Also a small bibliophile community: https://athenaeum.antilibrari.es/
Here's my personal canon: https://www.brendanschlagel.com/canon/
Some favorite things:
words, unicode, language, translation
creative constraints, oulipo
ecology, deep time
bookstores, libraries, the internet
indie creator economics
walking, hiking, exploring
Books (Favorites)
- Moby Dick - Herman Melville
- Le Ton beau de Marot - Douglas Hofstadter
- Thinking in Systems: A Primer - Donella Meadows
- His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
- Cosmicomics - Italo Calvino
- Autonauts of the Cosmoroute - Julio Cortázar and Carol Dunlop
Fun Websites
- https://everything2.com/
- http://phrontistery.info/
- http://longnow.org/
- https://fo.am/
- https://aworkinglibrary.com/
- http://worrydream.com/
Books (Antilibrary)
- From the Tree to the Labyrinth - Umberto Eco
- Speak, Memory - Vladimir Nabokov
- Library of Small Catastrophes - Alison C. Rollins
- Communities of Practice - Etienne Wenger
- 99 Variations on a Proof - Philip Ording
- Zami: A New Spelling of My Name - Audre Lorde
projects I'd like to do one day
- word games for kids and babies
- more experimental book clubs
- speculative absurdist ecommerce shop
- microgrants of some kind
- creative constraints for poetry and photography
- rap album about my favorite things
- cool decks of cards of some kind
- social space purely in a sql database