Aether Mug
Aether Mug
Marco Giancotti
Hello! I write on Aether Mug, a weekly blog about a great number of things, like science, philosophy, design, psychology, and Japan—or rather, not about *any* of them in particular, but about the things that connect them all.
Latest Posts
Design proposal for the no-brainer social media feature all non-animals deserve
Log entry of a scientific test subject
A Small Web meeting place
On our Virtual Physics and Tunnel Vision
"The difficulty level will increase even more with the new season."
Assumption-digging as ritual
A play over milkshakes
On trying to be "The Invisible Elephant Guy" after one year of Aether Mug
The farther away a situation is from us socially, like a different industry or culture or community, the more puzzling and irrational and crazy—and sometimes evil—it looks. We're dismayed at how people drive in other countries, or at how...
Aren't we all air converters?
Possibly just me coming out as a lucky optimist
In defense of steep learning curve
Some control comes for free
Thinking about aphantasia since long before aphantasia was a thing
Some basic metacognition tools