It’s endlessly fun to write so that every word can be read literally, while also carrying alternate meanings for my friends, and friends-of-friends, etc., who share the same public ruleset/codex for interpreting them. It’s a subtle way to speak to different audiences simultaneously; one message, understood differently by different targets. It’s also curiously useful in marketing and company-building, and you can think of it as a gamified form of public-key cryptography, and I’m lucky to continue the tradition of my ancestors, practitioners of the ancient Jewish art of gematria. But this can be mentally taxing, so voilà: here’s my Gematria Page Calculator, available as a Chrome extension, a Firefox add-on, and open source on Github.
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