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Riddle Fortnightly No. 10

Of 25 August, 2024 Dear Readers, Welcome to this summer’s third installment of the Riddle Fortnightly. As you break out the tea and biscuits, and settle down with this edition, I wanted to offer a chant-worthy motto for the week ahead. That, and a mind-twister of a

Riddle Fortnightly No. 9

Of Aug. 11, 2024 Dear Reader, Put on a pot of tea, get out some biscuits, and fetch your E-ink tablet – it’s time for what we hope might become the pleasant Monday coffee-break ritual of reading another Riddle Fortnightly. In this week’s edition, 1. An extremely

Riddle Fortnightly No. 8

Esteemed reader! Welcome (or welcome back) to Riddle Press – and to another installment of its newly rechristened Riddle Fortnightly (née Riddle Weekly). This change was occasioned by the reflection that, under its previous cadence, the Riddle Weekly would be better called the ‘Riddle Biyearly’. After recovering from this affront to

A Marriage between Handwritten Notes and Obsidian

We live in a world of typed text. What place does the Penman have?

Riddle Membership Philosophy

TLDR: Riddle Press is not in the business of getting your business... All of our substantiated ideas will always be publicly accessible. Our membership & newsletter exist to nurture practices: both for our readers and writers.

Some E-ink Workflows for Mac Users

E-ink devices don’t “just work”. They require a bit of fiddling to set up — but, once set up, can be integrated seamlessly into your workflow, even with your Apple devices.

Virtuous Tools are Tangled Hierarchies

The question is not "what to automate and what not," nor even "what should we use tools for and what is exclusively human," but rather: Are the tools corrupting, or virtuous? Are they instruments that lessen our contact with reality, or do they strengthen it...

A Paean To the E-ink Tablet

Computers didn't have to be this way. E-ink gives us a glimpse into an alternate technological universe in which computers are conducive to focus –– and suggests ways to automate our existing technology to serve us better.

The Medium, the Message, and the Myth of the Impervious Craftsman

Those in Whorf’s camp claimed that just about every aspect of human experience was constructed by language – a position they would abridge as “linguistic relativity.” Those opposing them adopted some version of the “impervious craftsman” mindset, arguing that language is but a tool...

Riddle Weekly: Issue 7

A happy new year from the team at Riddle! We’ve got some big things in store for 2022, starting with our recent website redesign, and including a revamped newsletter and countless ideas, tools, and workflows we’re excited to share with you in the coming months. As ever, we’

What to do about todos?

by Chester Snuphanuph, PhD "Task Management" – it’s a sterile term, yet may take it as a centerpiece of their life’s work. Is it necessary? Sure, to some degree. But is it commonly overapplied or inflated beyond the bounds of reason? Most certainly. For a time, I