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Wiping your music library or expanding it?
I go for expanding with new music coming in all the time.
Virtue Signaling, the web as PKM, and stopping things
Virtue Signaling, the web as PKM, and stopping things
It feels great in the moment but...
...we pay for it later?
RSS still wins for me too
RSS is winning
LLMs Reward Expertise?
Yes expertise makes LLM usage more fruitful in my coding, but if you don't have to fight to get that expertise what will happen in the future?
Rethinking PKM and Newsletters
What is all your PKM work for, and how about that newsletter.
Apple Rent Seeking
I find little value in what Apple offers.
Just be normal, avoid the extremes
Extreme's sell, but maybe we should just be normal.
Should you read Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman?
A good look at what ails us, without much in the way of actionable advice we can take to organize and make things better.
The Bill Comes Later
We don't always pay our bills up front.
Github style dashboard for writers
Do you need a dashboard and streaks to motivate your writing?
Own your mistakes, focus and sense of wonder
Own your mistakes, focus and sense of wonder
I'm productive and in a pit of distraction
Productivity, yup it's happening, but distraction is also creeping it's way in more and more.
Consumption or Leisure
When we make more we buy more and end up with less.
The end isn't nigh, we choose easy, and comparison is a con
Stop going with our gut reactions and make a choice.
Utopia Isn't a Failure of Imagination
We know what Utopia could be, but can we get there under our current economic and political climate?
TLDR, the cage and standing out from AI
We can monitor ourselves into a cage.
I like this tweak to org-mode deadlines
Make org-mode deadlines just a bit prettier.
How bad is Weebly?
Weebly is terrible, and it's worse than I thought originally.
Book Review: Subtract - Leidy Klotz
A decent place to start removing things from your life, but nothing ground breaking if you've read other books in the genre.
Book Review: Let Loose the Fallen - S. Kaeth
Another excellent fantasy adventure in the Nexus world.
Book Review: The Perils of Perception - Bobby Duffy
Interesting facts, only a little substance if you want to identify your own biases or learn to talk to those you don't agree with.
Book Review: Monsters - Claire Dederer
Can we divorce the art from the despicable acts the artist has performed? Should we?
Book Review: Lightfall The Dark Times - Tim Probert
We're on a quest to get the sun back.
Book Review: Gleanings - Neal Shusterman
A series of short stories set in the Scythe universe.
Book Review: The Next Conversation - Jefferson Fisher
The section on speaking with control in an argument is excellent, but the book is clearly here to sell the author's services.
Book Review: Fugitive Telemetry - Martha Wells
Another excellent entry in the Murderbot franchise with more humanity in the robots that we see in many humans.
Book Review: The Affluent Society - John Kenneth Galbraith
In progress review to come. Purchase on Bookshop.org - support local bookstores Purchase on Amazon
Book Review: Utopia for Realists - Rutger Bregman
Utopia for Realists - Rutger Bregman