Lords:
* Maxx
* JP
Topics:
* The different kinds of "changing your mind" in creative work
* What texture did you think clouds were as a kid?
* Infinity Island
* Sleep, by Jorge Luis Borges
* https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=38645
* Chippendale Mupps and the slowest nerves
Microtopics:
* Knowing the names of zero outdoor cats in your neighborhood.
* Canny outdoor cats who are adapted to city life and don't need your plugs.
* Obi like the belt or like the Star Wars guy?
* Loosey goosey versions
* Changing your mind while making a creative work.
* Moving a door or a window in an existing wall.
* Bigger creative decisions being composed of many smaller creative decisions.
* Retaining maximum flexibility at every point in the process.
* A workflow that reflects the spectrum of flexibility.
* Flexibility Lost is Sturdiness Gained.
* Tweaking the value of pi to suit your needs.
* A system where a bunch of things depend on a bunch of other things.
* Axes of flexibility that you don't end up using.
* More specific categories of types of changing your mind.
* Going down a deep dark hole and finding the glittering prize but not being sure whether it's worth anything.
* A loop that spirals, oscillating, into the middle.
* Putting a branch into a meditation labyrinth and changing its theological meaning.
* Rewriting your novel in second person, present tense, just to see how it feels.
* The Citation Needed guy doubting that mazes can be built with snow.
* The ongoing Corn vs. Maize Wikipedia war.
* The marine layer rolling in.
* Looking at clouds and totally seeing the ice cream.
* Buying aerogel samples on eBay.
* What stuffed animals are stuffed with.
* Going to the sky island and it's sort of rubbery.
* Walkable clouds in the Mario series.
* Cloudjacking.
* Yanking Lakitu out onto the pavement and going on a joyride until the LoJack system kicks in.
* Super Mario Bros. redubbed with Quake and Half-Life sounds.
* Super Mario Bros. Next Gen AAA
* What clouds taste like.
* Fizzy Lifting Drinks.
* The soda with the glass ball.
* Ordering something red hoping for cherry, watermelon or strawberry flavor, but it's cinnamon flavored.
* Eating Red Hots for the first time and realizing you've been Halloween poisoned.
* Your first bitey cinnamon food.
* A little poison, as a treat.
* Filling your mouth with tree bark.
* Games with saved progress feeling like you're participating in a responsible activity than games where you start over every time.
* Deliberate mechanical whimsy.
* Making a complicated game and failing to teach the player how to play it.
* For a Change, by Dan Schmidt.
* An infinite variety of forms of confusion.
* Playing Frog Fractions all the way through and being like "what twist??"
* Why Jorge Luis Borges gets annoyed when people wake him up.
* Semi-routinely yelling in your sleep.
* Being asleep is the inside time.
* Citing Borges as a vibe.
* A mid-pod plug.
* The works of Ted Chiang.
* Internalizing the idea that you need sleep to function.
* Stepping stones of self-reflection.
* Waking up feeling the vague sensations of having dreamt.
* Sleeping with your eyes open.
* Integration of your environment into your dreams.
* Biting your tail before you go to sleep and not feeling it until you wake up.
* Putting keys in your toast.
* Repurposing the Chippendale Mupp's nervous system to make a vintage delay pedal.
* Esports competitors putting the left mouse button between their teeth to improve reaction time, because it's closer to the brain.
* Brains evolving to process whatever whenever and assembling the timeline later.
* Kuratas Heavy Industries.
* Smiling to fire the heavy machine guns.
* Gripens.
* Subway ads exhorting Maximum Lethality!
* The airport nearest to all of the oil fields in the Permean Basin.
* Billboards for enterprise services.
* Wasting eyeballs.
* A couple of active web presences.
