I finally did it. I finally found a tutor for sculpting. Actually, what I found is much bigger than just a tutor. I found a workshop, a collective, a mirage in the middle of the desert. Actually… in the middle of an industrial zone.
On Friday I went to OtonomArt for an introductory sculpting class. I made this relief with mud:
Starting next week I’ll go there twice a week. Finally I have a space for sculpting and hopefully will have a regular practice throughout the year. I am going to enter 2027 as a sculptor.
Why are vibes so bad when economic metrics don’t look that bad? Scott Alexander tries to find an answer to this question. Zvi too.
I have a great respect for Scott and Zvi. Their rationality and ability to deduce answers from the empirical data are important. However, I am not as rational as they are, so I can only talk about the “vibe” side of things.
Analyzing the “vibecession” —or the Great Vibepression—through the lens of empirical data presents a problem: data is necessarily historical, while the vibecession is about the future. The future is, by definition, uncharted and unquantifiable. One can only sense the future, and what we sense is impending doom.
2025 was a good year for me. After quitting my startup, which was going nowhere, at the end of 2024, I entered 2025 rejuvenated. As a result I read more, experimented more, travelled more, did more… I feel like 2025 was a stepping stone for 2026.
What I was up to in the first week of 2026?
hypersubject.net
My online presence is highly fragmented.
I have a personal and “professional” web site at https://ege.dev where I mostly post my technical writings. I also have a content type that I call “beats” which are unlisted, they only show up in the RSS feed. I was using beats to post short form updates that are usually personal. I have a photo gallery at that site as well.
The internet, with its hyper-fast communication flows, was meant to enable the
new golden age for humanity. We were promised to have a global village where
tribes transcend the limitations of geography. We could find our people
wherever they were. Our ideas, our niche interests were supposed to connect us
with others in the vast network of nodes. If, only if, we can discover them.
