The Writer and the Brain

Living on Borges Street

I spent most of 2005 in Buenos Aires working on a book, and that’s all I had to do that year.

Jun 2 • Daniel Chacón

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May 2026

Angels on the Head of My Pen

The Writer's High: Flow, Hypnagogia, and the Bliss Molecule

May 29 • Daniel Chacón

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Physics and Poetry

“The art of physics lies in deciding what to ignore.” Brian Greene.

May 26 • Daniel Chacón

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The Book in the Mirror.

God Wants You to Read This PART 2

May 6 • Daniel Chacón

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April 2026

God Wants You to Read This

Part One of Three: Traveling Through Nepantla

Apr 27 • Daniel Chacón

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The Velocity of Language

Every good piece of writing hides an Aleph moment.

Apr 15 • Daniel Chacón

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March 2026

Writers Should Play With Dolls

Sorry to get all Borges on you again, but one of the things that he taught me is that you can take religion and other complex systems and play with the…

Mar 18 • Daniel Chacón

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February 2026

November 2025

Barton College Lecture

The Writer and the Brain

Nov 20, 2025 • Daniel Chacón

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The Hidden Grammar of Repetition

The Writer and the Occult

Nov 13, 2025 • Daniel Chacón

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October 2025

Language Is a Strange Loop

Ok, so humans used to remember phone numbers, a lot of them, but today most of us remember very few, because we have outsourced memory to our devices.

Oct 31, 2025 • Daniel Chacón

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Creativity Can Save the World

Audio excerpt from a longer talk

Oct 30, 2025 • Daniel Chacón

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