Seth’s Riff’s
Seth s Riff s is a collection of kernels, notions and riffs from Seth Godin. What a treasure trove! GAH!
swissmiss
swissmiss is an online garden (aka design blog) run by Tina Roth Eisenberg, a Swiss designer gone NYC.
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The Ability to Be Wrong
The ability to be wrong is one of the most important virtues, and it is extremely difficult. It should be emphasized in families and schools alongside standard virtues like honesty, sharing, and kindness, starting as young as possible. Alan Levinovitz
Collection of Vintage User-Interfaces
Whoa! A massive archive of old-school user-interface screenshots. As a former user-interface designer, this archive definitely put a smile on my face.
We But Mirror The World
“We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is [ ]
Marble Pillows
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Håkon Anton Fagerås (@fageras_sculpture) Completely in love with Norwegian artist Hakon Anton Fageras Marble Pillows.
The Distance between Deciding and Doing
The distance between deciding and doing is the single most reliable predictor of whether your life will be extraordinary or ordinary. Not talent, not circumstances, not even the quality of your decisions-but how quickly you collapse the space between intention and reality. Think of this gap as a kind of friction coefficient on your existence: [ ]
The Real Revolution
“I still think the [real] revolution is to make the world safe for poetry, meandering, for the frail and vulnerable, the rare and obscure, the impractical and local and small.” Rebecca Solnit
My Retro TVs
My Retro Tvs allows you to watch live television from different decades, as if you were currently living in that time, watching TV as normal. You can choose any year from the decades starting in the 50s, up to the 2000s. There are thousands of channels, including cartoons, sports, news, music. (The commercials alone make [ ]
MediSearch
I recently heard multiple friends positively mention MediSearch when having to research a symptom or illness. Definitely into this kind of use of AI.
Art by Luke St Leger
I have madly fallen in love with Luke St Leger s modular art pieces.
Infinite
“The market for something to believe in is infinite.” Hugh MacLeod, (Via this Seth Godin post speaking on integrity)
Levels of Agency
There are two kinds of people after dinner: Those who ask, “Can I help?” And those who are already doing the dishes. One sounds helpful. One is. This plays out on every team every day. Don t wait for permission. Do the dishes (Via Zack Klein)
Flawed and Complex Human
“Next time I’m about to cast a harsh judgement on a stranger who offends me, can I allow myself instead to see them as the flawed and complex human that they are? Full of heartbreak, loss, ambition and disappointment, walking a volatile path of all the things they’ve ever failed at?” ― Kae Tempest, On [ ]
Mini-apprenticeships with master artists in their studios, worldwide
VAWAA makes my heart sing. Imagine traveling to spend time with an artist, where they spend time teaching you their craft. In their home. Their studio. Mini-Apprenticeships with master artists. I love what Geetika has built more than I can express with words. The care she pours into VAWAA is immense! And, most of all, [ ]
Happy My 21st Blog Birthday To Me!
Yesterday, May 27th, marked the 21st birthday of this beloved online garden of mine. The rolling panda beautifully represents how I feel about this. I had no idea just how much this labor of love would increase my surface area for luck to find me. Do you run an online garden? Point us to it!
Adult Friendship
Sociologists have long argued that human relationships are sustained less by intensity and more by regularity. Simply encountering the same people repeatedly builds closeness over time. Youth offers this naturally. Adulthood dismantles it completely. Especially in urban life. From the article The quiet grief of adult friendship This is one of the many reasons [ ]
Creativity
Another word for creativity is courage. Henri Matisse
Ragtime: Tiny Desk Concert
Now this is delightful. Thank you Melanie.
Point Out The Good
point out the good when you see it. in life, in others, in yourself. because the world needs to remember what kindness and love look like. topher kearby
Brik.space
I am going to be spending way too much time on this website! Bring back the weird internet. I love you Brik.space. What weird tool are you going to build? (via)
Wonderful World
Happy 100th birthday, David Attenborough!
Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
The prosperity of the community grows from the flow of relationships, not the accumulation of goods.” The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (via)
You Need A (Gentle) Deadline!
Do you need an invitation to step away from the algorithm? An invitation to reconnect with your creativity? Cool. But you also need a deadline! I got both: Cue RELEASE DAY! Release Day just launched and 1,482 creative humans have already pledged to create something during the month of May and then release it on [ ]
Concious Endeavor
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor . Henry David Thoreau
Whale Eye
In October 2024, Rachel Moore had a close encounter with a humpback whale in French Polynesia and took these photos of the whale’s eye. Whoa! (Via Kottke)
Intelligence, Energy and Integrity
“You’re looking for three things, generally, in a person,” says Buffett. “Intelligence, energy, and integrity. And if they don’t have the last one, don’t even bother with the first two. I tell them, ‘Everyone here has the intelligence and energy—you wouldn’t be here otherwise. But the integrity is up to you. You weren’t born with [ ]
Soft Reform. Radical Reform. Beyond Reform.
This graph stopped me in my tracks. Different questions lead to different answers.
Show Up. Be Kind. Know Yourself.
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Peo (@amazedbypeo)
Pantry Pants
It made me giggle: Pantry Pants.
Subscription Cost Visualizer
Subscription Cost Visualizer is a lightweight, interactive tool that turns your subscriptions into a visual grid. Instead of a list of numbers, you get a clear, proportional view of where your money is going—larger blocks represent higher costs, making your spending instantly legible.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is one of the oldest and most generous corners of the internet: a vast, free digital library built by volunteers. Founded in 1971, it offers more than 75,000 eBooks—mostly classic works whose copyrights have expired—available to read, download, and share without cost.
Future Me
FutureMe is a quiet little corner of the internet with a simple premise: you write an email to your future self, and the site delivers it later. You choose the date—months or years from now—type out whatever’s on your mind, and hit send. Then you forget about it. At some point down the line, it [ ]
Moon Joy
Moon Joy. I am here for it. Thank you NASA. These four humans fill my heart with so much hope and love.
Personal Encyclopedias
Using wiki software, old photos, family stories, bank transactions, social media posts, and an LLM to sift through everything to build a personal encyclopedia? Yes, please! whoami.wiki as an open source project. The encyclopedia is yours, it runs on your machine, your data stays with you, and any model can read it. (via Jason)
Red Lipped Bat Fish
This made me giggle. Nature is silly. Did you know the Red-Lipped Batfish is a thing?
One of My Favorite Conversations…
My friend Derek Andersen founder of StartupGrind invited me to be on his Podcast called Divot. Loved our conversation, his curious and gentle orientation and most of all, his lighting questions at the end. (Starting around 35:25min) PS: They got the community size wrong: We gather 25,000 creatives every month in 70 countries and have [ ]
Weird Kid
Love this print and sentiment by James Victore.
The Lonely Funeral Project
Two decades ago, some poets in the Netherlands decided that people not having anyone attend their funeral was an unacceptable ending for a human life. In 2001, a poet named Bart Droog began attending the funerals of people who had no one to attend them and honoring the dead with a poem based on whatever [ ]
Worldwide Sidewalk Joy Map
Sidewalk Joy spots are free, curated public galleries, exchanges and displays. Installed in curb gardens, front yards or sides of buildings these projects were created to bring a bit of whimsy and inspiration to the community. Examples include Free Little Art Galleries, Puzzle Exchanges, Toy Swaps, year-round and often updated yard displays, Wishing Trees, and [ ]
Dog Rugs
These dog rugs by Emily O Leary are weird and fascinating.