Archive - WrathOfGnon’s Newsletter

A Low Tech Fictional Future

Reader beware: my first fiction

Feb 14, 2023 •

September 2022

How to Build a Home that Lasts a Thousand Years

Tradition in the building arts explained the long way around, in three easy to remember rules.

Sep 12, 2022 •

April 2022

The Alluring City

A philosophical inspection in which the author suggest a different way to approach the question of how to best create the kind of towns and cities in…

Apr 11, 2022 •

February 2022

How To Heal a Mountain

The short story of how Kumazawa Banzan, a Japanese 17th century multi talented samurai scholar and ecologist, figured out a way to restore eroded…

Feb 28, 2022 •

December 2021

The 100 Year Well

This short post can be seen as a follow up, using a concrete example, on the earlier discussions of what constitutes the human scale as it relates to…

Dec 8, 2021 •

October 2021

Suddenly, on Halloween

Suddenly, on Halloween, everyone gets it. And on Christmas. We send our children out to trick and treat, and suddenly we get it.

Oct 29, 2021 •

September 2021

The City as an Eco System

Or, Nature Loves Edges: It is almost like there is some universal law of nature that dictates that the more fractal, the more fine grained, the more…

Sep 8, 2021 •

August 2021

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