This publication has a new name. It’s Wrong & Quiet.
Here’s how that happened, which is a better story than “we rebranded.”
I went back and read everything I’d published, looking for what the pieces had in common. I expected the answer to be “AI.” That would have been useless — everything is about AI now.
What they’re actually about is systems that are wrong and quiet about it.
Two ledgers that disagree, so the number that reaches the board deck is whichever one the person building the deck happened to pull. A Norwegian company suffix that turned the word “son” into a corporation inside a California law firm’s documents — nobody wrote a bug; two correct rules met one correct list entry. A scheduled job that didn’t run for a week and never mentioned it. A counter that sat at 3 for days and exited cleanly every time, because 3 was a default wearing a result’s clothes.
None of those announced themselves. That’s the subject.
I’d written the phrase months ago, in a subordinate clause, and walked straight past it.
So that’s what this is: things that fail without making a sound, and what it takes to build things that make one. Not systems that are correct — I don’t think that’s on offer. Systems you can reach into when they’re wrong.
Two new pages come with the name.
How I Make This says how the work actually gets made, including what’s mine and what’s machine-assisted. I write about other people’s tooling. It would be strange to hide my own.
Corrections is a standing log of what I got wrong — and, kept separate, what merely changed. It does not launch empty.
One entry is an Update: a linkage figure I published in August that my own fixes made obsolete within a day. It was true when I published it and it isn’t now. That’s a different thing from having been wrong, and the page keeps the two apart on purpose.
The other is a Correction: a sentence in a September piece describing a correction that doesn’t exist in the piece it points at. That one was just wrong.
Both mine. Both found while building the page.
If this isn’t what you signed up for, the unsubscribe link is at the bottom and I won’t take it personally. Better that than a list of people who aren’t reading.
If it is, the second of those four went up today, at proper length:
https://wrongandquiet.substack.com/p/a-norwegian-company-suffix-turned
— Patrick
"Long-time thought partner" is uniquely apt, Scott, and you'd know none of this started with AI. It started in the front seat of a station wagon, pointed at whatever was over the horizon, with Whale on the stereo and both of us breaking our necks whilst comically pumping the breaks when the bass hits. I'll write some of those down. You may have to fact-check me.
As a long time "thought partner", I'd encourage you to also expand your scope and revisit a lifetime of your work, back from your work within sonics, outside of generative AI. You've been educating yourself in right sounds, quiet and loud, for decades. Revisit all through your life, share some of those stories too. Recording, talking to Bowie, etc. Even us in New Hope, PA, summer of 1995, busking.