Maps Without Territory

We built minds out of signs

Mar 22 • Matt Wilven

The Knock-Through

What the Earth Refuses | 1 of 10

Mar 15 • Matt Wilven

I Bought a Mac Mini to Build a Digital Creature

It was brain damaged before it opened its mouth

Mar 8 • Matt Wilven

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Show Home is going offline

If you read the first 15 chapters of Show Home, thank you.

Mar 1 • Matt Wilven

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January 2026

The New Priesthood

Exegesis and the Silicon Soul

Jan 25 • Matt Wilven

The Silicon Metabolism

Why artificial intelligence scales like a civilisation, not software

Jan 18 • Matt Wilven

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AI's Cultural Battlefield

Art, consent, and power in the age of probability

Jan 11 • Matt Wilven

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The Case for a Public Mind

Why Britain needs a chartered artificial intelligence

Jan 4 • Matt Wilven

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December 2025

In Defence of Telling

Tell, don't show?

Dec 28, 2025 • Matt Wilven

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October 2025

On the Seven-Year Silence

A personal dispatch on chronic illness, fatherhood, and why I've returned to writing.

Oct 5, 2025 • Matt Wilven

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September 2025

The Art of the Prompt

Brief an LLM so it reads your creative work with discipline, not flattery

Sep 21, 2025 • Matt Wilven

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Only Pig-Headed Dogs Can Write Novels

‘Everybody has a book in them’ – so the saying goes.

Sep 14, 2025 • Matt Wilven

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