Archive

Every post found on this site is listed below in reverse chronological order. The categories I write in are Fieldnotes (my main blog), Genius Loci (my main newsletter), and On Mountains (a microsite that focuses on the intellectual and cultural history of mountains).

2026

Mountains and Sacred Peaks in the Torah

08 Sep

New Mountain Book: 'The Pyrenees' by Colin Duncan Taylor

20 Aug

A Self-Study Syllabus, Gilgamesh, Audience Capture, AI Threats

17 Aug

The Lord to the Living One's Mountain: A Sumerian Gilgamesh Story

15 Jul

The Enuma Elish and the High Temples of Babylon

13 Jul

New Mountain Book: 'Upland' by Ed Douglas

09 Jul

The Temple as Mountain in the Sumerian Gudea Cylinders

07 Jul

Mountains in the Epic of Gilgamesh

01 Jul

Offices, Rooms, Backrooms

15 Jun

Summer Break, Renovations, A. G. Sertillanges, The Work Begins

08 May

A Higher Calling? Where Our Creative Impulse Comes From

20 Apr

Between the Lamp and the Sun

02 Apr

Festival of the Virgin of Urkupiña — A Documentary About Faith

13 Mar

Our Lady of Guadalupe's Mountain: Tepeyac Hill

09 Mar

The Work, Creative K-Holes, Dead Forever

01 Feb

What I Learned About Growing a Newsletter, Content Marketing, and Email Magnets

08 Jan

Resolutions, Changes Coming, Friendship

01 Jan

2025

2025 End of Year Review

31 Dec

The Carpathians as Protectors: Mountains as Active Protectors and Agents

29 Dec

A New Mountains Podcast: 'Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures'

22 Dec

The Notebook as Life Interface

03 Dec

Mountains in Kalidasa's 'The Birth of Kumara'

17 Nov

Servitude as a Service: Reading Kant in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

04 Nov

Inputs and the Information Firing Squad

01 Nov

Mountains, Mary, and Modern Bolivia

21 Oct

The Temple as Mountain in the Torah

13 Oct

The Festival of the Virgin of Urkupiña: Mountains and Materialism in the Bolivian Andes

08 Oct

Documenting Documentary Work, Life in the Margins

01 Oct

Mountains in the Book of Deuteronomy

26 Sep

The Arc'teryx Fireworks Controversy in Tibet Reveals Our Cultural Blind Spots

24 Sep

Fieldwork in the Cochabamba Valley

01 Sep

Back to the Andes, Deep in Admiration, and the Substack Problem

01 Aug

‘Vita Contemplativa’ by Byung-Chul Han

30 Jul

Mountains in the Book of Numbers

28 Jul

Mountains in the Book of Leviticus

21 Jul

'Sacred Mountains of the World' with Ed Bernbaum

16 Jul

Mountains in the Book of Exodus, Part 2

14 Jul

Mountains in the Book of Exodus, Part 1

07 Jul

A Few More Days in the Andes, Summer Books, Creative Journeys Podcast

01 Jul

2025 Mid-Year Review

30 Jun

Some Writing Advice From Robert Macfarlane

29 Jun

Mountains in the Book of Genesis

20 Jun

'The Burnout Society' by Byung-Chul Han

04 Jun

A Strategy to Build an Author Platform, On Mountains, Substack Slop, RSS Readers

01 Jun

Did Jesus Die On a Hill?

28 May

Ziggurats, Nippur, and Cuneiform Tablets: Richard Zettler on Mesopotamian Archaeology

19 May

Will Artificial Intelligence Make Us Dumber?

08 May

'Mountains Before Mountaineering' with Dawn Hollis

05 May

Introducing 'On Mountains'

04 May

Writing Coaches and Author Platforms

01 May

The Springtime Blues, Vibe Coding, Social-Media Shields

01 Apr

Review: 'Core Curriculum' by Tod Papageorge

20 Mar

E.M. Forster, Byung-Chul Han, & Paul Theroux

01 Mar

Documentary and Post-Documentary Photography

26 Feb

'The Disappearance of Rituals' by Byung-Chul Han

05 Feb

Creative Synergy, Pico Iyer's 'Aflame'

01 Feb

Review: 'Mountains Before Mountaineering' by Dawn Hollis

10 Jan

2024

2024 End of Year Review

31 Dec

Media Diets, Gypsies, Print Sale

01 Dec

The Railroad Rides Upon Us

01 Nov

Organize, Archive, and Back Up Your Photos | My Workflow + Tips

22 Oct

The Future of Reading: A Warning from the Past

01 Oct

Design vs Discovery: Two Approaches To Photo Work

27 Sep

My 365-Day Photography Project - 9 Month Update

27 Sep

The Pentax 17 vs the Kodak Ektar H35N

01 Aug

Pentax 17 Review

01 Aug

A New Podcast, Kassabova's 'Anima,' & More

01 Aug

Ricoh Auto Half SL Review

11 Jul

Book Archetypes, Werner Herzog on Practice & 'The New Tourist'

01 Jul

01 Jun

Some Notes on Shiva, Parvati, and Mountains

02 May

The Power of Incremental Creativity

01 May

Global Ideas Narrative Nonfiction

07 Apr

Book Proposals and Daily Photography Journaling

01 Apr

V. S. Naipaul's Advice on Writing

18 Mar

The Hindu Temple as Mountain

10 Mar

Manufactured Mountains

02 Mar

Family, Fireworks, and the Future of Creativity

01 Mar

Street Photography and Mental Health

27 Feb

Starting a Year-Long, Daily Photography Journal

13 Feb

What Joseph Brodsky's 'Watermark' Teaches Us About Creativity

12 Feb

Cultivating Daily Creative Habits

01 Feb

The Problem With Camera Gear Reviews

17 Jan

Why Photographers Must Print Photographs

06 Jan

Artifact International, Going 'Local,' Travel Book Awards

01 Jan

2023

2023 End of Year Review

30 Dec

An Unsuccessful Kickstarter Campaign

27 Dec

Orlando Again, Images of War, Square Prints

14 Dec

Home & Square Prints

01 Dec

Mastering Field Notes

28 Nov

The Hill of the Skull

12 Nov

[Genius Loci] November 2023

01 Nov

[Genius Loci] October 2023

01 Oct

Creative Projects as Systems

18 Sep

ImillaSkate: Bolivia's 'Cholita' Skateboarders

14 Sep

Starting a Creator’s Log: Some Thoughts

10 Sep

[Genius Loci] September 2023

01 Sep

A Note About the Wind and Arles, France

14 Aug

[Genius Loci] August 2023

01 Aug

Three Notebook Sketches from La Paz

14 Jul

[Genius Loci] July 2023

01 Jul

When Creative Projects Fail: Some Thoughts

14 Jun

[Genius Loci] June 2023

01 Jun

A Note from Rome

14 May

Sequencing a Photobook or a Photo Zine

03 May

[Genius Loci] May 2023

01 May

Ceremonies on the Shores of Lake Titicaca

14 Apr

Ceremonies on the Shores of Lake Titicaca

14 Apr

[Genius Loci] April 2023

01 Apr

Photography Projects as Research Projects?

14 Mar

[Genius Loci] March 2023

01 Mar

Some Thoughts about Hiking with Others

14 Feb

[Genius Loci] February 2023

01 Feb

Paradise, Drugs, & Walking Orlando

11 Jan

The Best Fujifilm Cameras for Travel [2023]

01 Jan

[Genius Loci] January 2023

01 Jan

2022

2022 End of Year Review

30 Dec

On Sabbaticals and Micro Sabbaticals

29 Dec

Drifting, a Newsletter on Wandering

08 Dec

[Genius Loci] December 2022

01 Dec

An Interview with Alys Tomlinson

07 Nov

[Genius Loci] November 2022

01 Nov

[Genius Loci] October 2022

01 Oct

How to Approach a Photobook with Words

29 Sep

[Genius Loci] September 2022

01 Sep

[Genius Loci] August 2022

01 Aug

[Genius Loci] July 2022

01 Jul

[Genius Loci] June 2022

01 Jun

[Genius Loci] May 2022

01 May

[Genius Loci] April 2022

01 Apr

Sergio Larrain's Letter to His Nephew (1982)

24 Mar

[Genius Loci] March 2022

01 Mar

[Genius Loci] February 2022

01 Feb

Street Photography with the Sony a7 III

29 Jan

Announcing Artifact International

29 Jan

Starting a Membership Program

12 Jan

[Genius Loci] January 2022

01 Jan

2021

2021 End of Year Review

31 Dec

[Genius Loci] December 2021

01 Dec

[Genius Loci] November 2021

01 Nov

[Genius Loci] October 2021

01 Oct

[Genius Loci] September 2021

01 Sep

How to Become an Amazon Best-Selling Author: Or, How Amazon Lets Deceptive, Unethical, and Harmful Categorization Thrive

09 Aug

Mountains in Sumerian Creation Myths

04 Aug

[Genius Loci] August 2021

01 Aug

Location Data and Geotagging in Apple Notes with Shortcuts

21 Jul

Artificial Mountains in the Desert of the Real

08 Jul

[Genius Loci] July 2021

01 Jul

[Genius Loci] June 2021

01 Jun

The Art of the Self-Publisher in the Age of Mass Production: Crowdfunding and Scarcity

31 May

[Genius Loci] May 2021

01 May

[Genius Loci] April 2021

01 Apr

Reading Mountains as Cultural Phenomena

08 Mar

[Genius Loci] March 2021

01 Mar

Axis Mundi and the Sacred Mountain

25 Feb

[Genius Loci] February 2021

01 Feb

Genius Loci: Notes on Places by Vernon Lee (Foreword)

29 Jan

[Genius Loci] January 2021

01 Jan

2018

The Early Modern World

28 Aug

2017

17 Jun

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01 Jan

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01 Jan

Curriculum Vitæ

01 Jan

01 Jan

01 Jan

01 Jan

About Jeremy Bassetti

01 Jan

30 Days in the Andes

01 Jan