Thinking and Learning In Public
Win of the week: printed off a bunch of PDFs I’ve collected because I am never going to get around to reading them otherwise — already have read two of them 🦾 Looking forward to: got some big ol peaches, hope they’re good ones! gotta binge on stone fruit in the summer Stuff I did: […]
Harry wrote about finding people to trade postcards with. I’ll admit, I never know what to write on a postcard (or a card, for that matter!) 📫 A couple people with postcards on their websites: Dan Q – postcards received Ruben – postcards for readers Elan of Escape the Algorithm also accepts postcards from readers. […]
George Gessert describes ornamental plants as a form of domestication. Under that framing, Gessert argues, humans have actually domesticated more species for aesthetic purposes than we have for eating… and “interesting” has been just as common an aesthetic aim as “beautiful” has been. I have a hunch: kitsch discards “the interesting” as a desirable aesthetic […]
I like the idea of atomic, modular notes. It makes sense to keep each idea on its own. But… I think that my memory works more contextually, anchoring ideas to their source*. The idea doesn’t make sense to me without the context of its origin. It reminds me of the way we tend to treat […]
Highlight of the week: we were eating lunch when this family of raccoons — one adult and two little kits — came to look for figs (none looked ripe to me but they found a few they deemed edible) Looking forward to: the wildfire smoke is supposed to clear out this weekend after a long smoky […]
Between waiting for work projects to get rolling, quitting my novel project earlier in the year, wrapping up my main digital aura series blog posts, and losing my cat at the end of June, I’m feeling a bit in the doldrums* and could use a little creativity reboot. I’ve toyed with analog artistic mediums over […]
Tiny Things I Do That Make a Room Feel Alive by Colin King “Good rooms often tell you what to do before you think about it. You know where to sit.” + Just a Tool by Frank Elavsky “A chair orders you to sit and sit in a particular way, by its design. “Your being […]
Win of the week: submitted my passport renewal application (I suspect it’s a law of the universe that your passport photo must be terrible) Looking forward to: this week my mind is starting to come back to itself after a month of difficulty focusing on anything — I can read books again, and was able […]
I don’t like this game. I read a book this afternoon that had potential genAI flags. Nothing I found definitive… but the creeping doubt undermined my reading experience. Note: I don’t intend this as a callout post about a particular book, but rather a reflection on what I’m currently looking at to gauge whether an […]
I’m tired of buying a new non-stick pan every other year, so I decided to try cooking eggs in stainless steel instead. I’ve been practicing for a few months now, and figured I’d record what’s working (and not working) for me in case someone else has been thinking about it. Fried Eggs Cooking Method For […]