The Archive
Notes, essays, and occasional detours.
A running collection of Francis Sopper’s writing on cognition, attention, work, relationships, and the curious ways our minds make sense of the world.
← Back to newsletterI've Lost Track of Time
I'm well aware of what the clock says and what it has been saying for the last hour or so
LLM's Precise Certainty
What we feel most has no name but amber, archers, cinnamon, horses, and birds.
Your Toaster Might Make You Happy
As much as toasters have brought me happiness over a lifetime of relationships with them, I never felt the urge to thank one.
ADHD LMNOP QRS TUV
Labels help distinguish fertilizer from herbicide on the shelf at the garden supplies store. In the garden store, there's not a shelf with containers of mostly fertilizer on one side with some herbicide along a continuum of containers with gradually more herbicide to fertilizer until at the far end of the shelf, there's a container for mostly herbicide with some fertilizer.
Getting It Done
"Meg, if I could make a system work, I wouldn't need a system." Meg Edwards was my former colleague from Landmark College.
Warning: Labels
"Are you a Republican or a Democrat?" I asked, hoping to surprise my grandfather with how clever I was. I can look back now and realize the social media of the day, black and white television, was full of news and discussion around the upcoming presidential election of 1964.