Practices of Coping During Hard Times in the USA
Acknowledging the bad, and finding practices to recenter and retain sanity in an era of precarity and tumult
Things That Should Exist
Things That Should Exist is a newsletter that imagines systems for creating belonging, "infrastructures of care", and group and societal thriving.
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Adventures in Traditional Chinese Medicine
I love Eight Treasure Porridge. Eat it daily and live long. Also, I am selling handmade block prints online! (Link to store at end of post)
Things Are Happening in the Midwest
Thinking about my trip through the Midwest in 2023, solidarity networks, and Lifehouse, Adam Greenfield's new book
Protocols for Living
Protocols are systems for doing a certain *thing*. There are protocols for health, diet, personal finance, etc. Here's some of the ones I use.
Hello in There
Reactivating this thing. Tell me what you'd like to read about! Plus: my favorite Substacks, and teasing out the 'why' in 'why write?'
This is a post about building software
AI too. You've been warned ;)
Five Cool Things #4
Bluesky, Smog sky, and "the psychedelic age of AI"
The "Working in Tech Lifecycle"
And the "dev to woodworker pipeline"
Are We Spending Too Much Time Online?
Also: how much screen time is too much?, is working from home making you depressed too?, and more.
Some Thoughts on AI Chatbots
Thinking about thinking machines.