TLDR;
This is a newsletter called Creative Block.
It’s about the pursuit of truth — where technology is treated not as magic, but as a downstream effect of science, mathematics, and rational inquiry.
You’ll get:
Essays on AI, tech, science, and systems thinking
Curated links that is relevant and note-worthy
No hype. No doom. No shortcuts.
What is CREATIVE BLOCK?
Creative Block is a small node in a larger graph — a slow, deliberate attempt to think clearly in public. It is a newsletter built on continual experimentation and intellectual trial—anchored by a specific premise and oriented toward a defined goal.
The premise is simple: truth exists. It is obscured, not absent. Seeing it more clearly requires disentangling appearances from causes, correlations from constraints, noise from structure.
The goal is harder still: truth needs to be discovered. It is not just absorbed. That process resists acceleration. It’s built on friction, slowness, and frequent re-alignment between claim and verification. In a world optimized for reaction, this newsletter aims at reflection.
Here, technology is not treated as a standalone subject. It is downstream of deeper forces: mathematics, logic, and scientific reasoning.
If you're looking for commentary on gadgets or industry gossip, this will likely disappoint. If you're looking for conceptual tools that help make sense of complex systems, it might not.
Epistemology of CREATIVE BLOCK?
Because creativity is not inspiration-on-demand—it’s what remains after constraints are acknowledged and still something new emerges. It’s not an act of randomness, but a byproduct of structure, precision, and persistence.
What is originality, anyway? It’s not just “something new.” It’s non-obviousness backed by reasoning. A thing is original when it cannot be easily predicted from its inputs. When its structure resists trivial recombination. In that sense, creativity is closer to discovery than invention.
Language models can generate infinite variations of plausible text. They can imitate tone, recombine style, simulate coherence. But they do not think. They do not care. They do not intend. Most importantly, they do not mean.
This newsletter is not written by AI.
It is written by a person. Slowly. With attention. With an intention: the pursuit of truth.
About ME
I’m a researcher and writer, working at the intersection of technology, science, and structured thought. My formal background is technical. My informal obsession is with thinking clearly—especially in domains that resist it.
Over the last few years, I’ve written professionally in environments where clarity was often sacrificed for performance. Precision was diluted. Nuance was trimmed. The writing wasn’t wrong—but it wasn’t quite what I meant, either.
Eventually, I decided to stop flattening thought to fit the medium.
Creative Block is the result: a space to follow curiosity without optimizing it. To write without reverse-engineering an audience. To share thoughts that aren’t engineered for virality or emotional manipulation—but for coherence, relevance, and truth.
Why Substack?
Because the cost of honesty is lower here.
Substack lets me write without formatting friction or distribution games. In other spaces, even when a piece bore my name, it rarely ended up in my voice. What survived was often what was safest. Or what would "perform."
In traditional media, authorship is often diluted. A piece might carry your name, but the final version often bears the fingerprints of editors, algorithms, and audience metrics.
Here, there are fewer constraints. Fewer metrics. More responsibility. (That’s good.)
There’s a quote (possibly misattributed to Voltaire, which makes it even more interesting):
“The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.”
That’s the ideal. Substack, for now, gets closer to it than anything else I’ve tried.
What you’ll get:
Creative Block delivers a small body of work that’s been filtered through the lens of utility, coherence, and relevance. Not “what’s trending”—but what might actually matter.
Expect:
Essays on AI, emerging tech, logic, and cognition
Curated research links—chosen for marginal utility, not clickability
Explorations in systems thinking, epistemology, and rationality
Minimal commentary—but only when it adds something
Core focus areas:
Science and mathematics from first principles
Rational frameworks for navigating noisy environments
Technology as lens, not spectacle
Digital productivity in service of thought—not hustle
No paywalls. No affiliate links. No SEO traps. Just: signal.
Why Subscribe?
We’re surrounded by information, but understanding is scarce.
If you’ve ever paused mid-scroll and thought, “Is any of this true?”—this newsletter exists for that moment.
Creative Block isn’t trying to win the attention war. It’s opting out of it.
If you subscribe, I’ll send articles and pieces regularly—measured, slow, and (hopefully) useful. Not urgent, but enduring. Not loud, but precise.
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Truth isn’t democratic—but if you’re still reading, it probably matters to you too.
