Hello and welcome.
Mirage Mir /mɪˈrɑːʒ mɪər/ is an experimental publishing project.
It is centered around a book, supported by newsletters and a growing library of notes = you can move through in different ways and speeds:
- read The book: currently ~16,000 words,
- subscribe to The newsletter: an email you’ll receive at least once a month,
- browse The library: a gradually growing collection of short, interlinked notes.
Why I’m doing this
I’m looking for a more meaningful/interesting way to communicate with friends and people I connect with.
We don’t see each other often, and most online communication collapses into small, fragmented chat snippets.
Social media doesn’t work for me, it’s getting more enshittified every day. And it’s hard not to feel how quickly life moves.
So i’m building a slower channel: a story and letters you can read when you have time, so when we do meet, we can go deeper faster.
I’m also publishing in public because building in public leads to better work than building in private. The more real eyes this has, the more care I put into it.
And I’m hoping it becomes a two-way channel: if you have something I should read, watch, or listen to, I’d love to get your recommendations.
Themes I explore here
- writing and language,
- memory and knowledge management,
- attention ecology and learning strategies,
- worldplay and imaginary universes,
- design fiction and speculative resistance,
- creativity in the age of AI,
- human–computer interfaces.
The book itself carries these questions within its narrative, in which, at the end of the winter of 2084, a mysterious bicycle courier sets out on her final ride, tasked with delivering a construct of a woman named Mira Melko into a spacetime anomaly in the Tribeč mountains, Slovakia.
Who this is for
You’ll probably feel at home here if you’re some combination of:
- a knowledge worker (designer, manager, researcher, consultant, educator, creator, builder),
- someone who cares about reading and writing — and wants to publish (or publish better),
- someone who prefers to be educated, instead of just entertained,
- someone who senses that organizing everyday knowledge improves thinking and life over the long term,
- someone intrigued by a cross between The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse, Acid Communism by Mark Fisher, Terra Ignota by Ada Palmer, The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks, Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavić, and Mycelium by Vilma Kadlečková — and you’re also curious about where and why trhlina exists in the Tribeč mountains.
Thanks for being here.
— Peter