For my favorite bit of Gibson covering the mundane: https://www.gwern.net/docs/japanese/2002-gibson https://www.gwern.net/docs/japanese/2002-gibson That's a wh

For my favorite bit of Gibson covering the mundane: https://www.gwern.net/docs/japanese/2002-gibson https://www.gwern.net/docs/japanese/2002-gibson That's a whole article about the art of mud-ball shining, and it's fascinating. (It's also an intriguing taste of how Gibson got started on his last decade of topics. Otaku, crafting perfectionism, "the absolute narrowing of personal bandwidth", and so on.)