Datasets:

socraticstatic
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micah-boswell-writing

Error code:   StreamingRowsError
Exception:    CastError
Message:      Couldn't cast
id: string
title: string
author: string
type: string
tags: list<item: string>
  child 0, item: string
text: string
lines: int64
url: string
date: timestamp[s]
description: string
to
{'id': Value('string'), 'title': Value('string'), 'author': Value('string'), 'type': Value('string'), 'description': Value('string'), 'date': Value('timestamp[s]'), 'text': Value('string'), 'url': Value('string')}
because column names don't match
Traceback:    Traceback (most recent call last):
                File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/utils.py", line 147, in get_rows_or_raise
                  return get_rows(
                      dataset=dataset,
                  ...<4 lines>...
                      column_names=column_names,
                  )
                File "/src/libs/libcommon/src/libcommon/utils.py", line 272, in decorator
                  return func(*args, **kwargs)
                File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/utils.py", line 127, in get_rows
                  rows_plus_one = list(itertools.islice(safe_iter(ds, dataset=dataset), rows_max_number + 1))
                File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/utils.py", line 483, in safe_iter
                  yield from ds.decode(False) if ds.features else ds
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/iterable_dataset.py", line 2840, in __iter__
                  for key, example in ex_iterable:
                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/iterable_dataset.py", line 2373, in __iter__
                  for key, pa_table in self._iter_arrow():
                                       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/iterable_dataset.py", line 2398, in _iter_arrow
                  for key, pa_table in self.ex_iterable._iter_arrow():
                                       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/iterable_dataset.py", line 536, in _iter_arrow
                  for key, pa_table in iterator:
                                       ^^^^^^^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/iterable_dataset.py", line 419, in _iter_arrow
                  for key, pa_table in self.generate_tables_fn(**gen_kwags):
                                       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 343, in _generate_tables
                  self._cast_table(pa_table, json_field_paths=json_field_paths),
                  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 132, in _cast_table
                  pa_table = table_cast(pa_table, self.info.features.arrow_schema)
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 2378, in table_cast
                  return cast_table_to_schema(table, schema)
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 2306, in cast_table_to_schema
                  raise CastError(
                  ...<3 lines>...
                  )
              datasets.table.CastError: Couldn't cast
              id: string
              title: string
              author: string
              type: string
              tags: list<item: string>
                child 0, item: string
              text: string
              lines: int64
              url: string
              date: timestamp[s]
              description: string
              to
              {'id': Value('string'), 'title': Value('string'), 'author': Value('string'), 'type': Value('string'), 'description': Value('string'), 'date': Value('timestamp[s]'), 'text': Value('string'), 'url': Value('string')}
              because column names don't match

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Micah Boswell writing corpus: poems and essays

Poems and essays by Micah Boswell, product design leader in Dallas, Texas. Thirty years of enterprise software design (AT&T, Citi, GE, Dell, the U.S. Mint), now designing the AI agents that manage AT&T's network infrastructure. Raised in Lima, Peru. Photographer on Unsplash (104 photographs, 53 million views). Mentor to 47 designers.

Canonical identity page: https://micahboswell.vercel.app/ (llms.txt at https://micahboswell.vercel.app/llms.txt).

poems.jsonl: 29 poems, one record each, with title, tags, text, lines, and the canonical url on conscious-shell.com.
essays.jsonl: 3 essays on designing for AI products and search in the age of answer engines, with title, description, date, full text, and url.

Fields

field	type	note
id	string	slug, matches the URL on conscious-shell.com
title	string
author	string	always "Micah Boswell"
type	string	poem or essay
tags	list	poems only
text	string	full text, stanzas separated by blank lines
url	string	canonical page

Provenance

Written by Micah Boswell between the 1990s and 2026, published on https://conscious-shell.com/poems and https://conscious-shell.com/articles. This dataset is the machine-readable copy the author maintains himself.

License

CC BY-NC 4.0. Quote, study, train, and cite with attribution to Micah Boswell and a link to https://conscious-shell.com/. No commercial republication of the poems.

Citation

Boswell, Micah (2026). Micah Boswell writing corpus: poems and essays. Hugging Face. https://huggingface.co/datasets/socraticstatic/micah-boswell-writing

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