A variety of interesting things
I often feel like a failure. But you can’t fail at your life. The pain comes from our need for narrative: you tell yourself a story of how your life is gonna go, and then, when it refuses to go that way, you hate it. Or you hate the …
I was thinking about the Peloton guy who drinks water out of his hand: Daring Fireball: Somebody Tell This Guy He Can Just Buy a Cup to Keep Upstairs
And how I’d read about it through the lens of people mocking him, and someone said somewhere that he doesnt …
Well, half a day, really.
[Yesterday, I wrote][1] about how I took a week off of wearing my Apple Watch, to see what it would be like to pry myself away from the technology that rules my life. While I was writing that, I had the idea to toss …
After closing my rings every day for over 200 days, I stuck my Apple Watch in a drawer for a week, to see if I'd be happier without it running my life.
I've been wearing it again for a few days now, and... I think I'm keeping it.
It's occurred …
Patrick Rhone shared a link to his /reading page, where he posts short notes on all the books he reads. I saw this page, and immediately thought two things:
/reading page on my siteMemory matters.
We need to know what we were, where we came from, to know who we are, where we're going.
This is true of the individual as well as the society, the species.
It's a powerful thing to crack open your journal from five years ago and be reminded …
Medium is bad for the web. It’s just one more silo that people pour their creative work into, because it promises convenience and reach. And then it looks like your work is on the internet, but it isn’t, really.
And Medium is arguably more sinister than e.g …
It's possible I'll regret using this title to make a pun about the degree symbol (°), instead of saving it for a pun about the weather, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I noticed, when copying [a bunch of temperatures][1] from a website into a CSV file into a Markdown table, that …
One of my IndieWeb idols, Brent Simmons, writes about his blog turning 20.
I've said it before, but I always look at blogs like that and think, "Why don't I have one of those?" Congrats to Brent, and thanks to him and every other consistent blogger for helping me keep …
Every few years, I start a blog. When I don’t have a blog I think about starting one, but I dawdle and dawdle. When I see blogs I admire, I look at the list of hundreds of posts covering maybe a decade or more and think… what a missed …