Things that I have found aesthetically pleasing recently
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Substrate
A living collection of notes, ideas, and reflections from Doug Belshaw.
An audience of one
I like the idea of this:
Microblogging for an audience of one. The composer, the timeline, the archive — every reflex of the feed, with nobody on the other end. The posts that should have been diary entries finally have somewhere to go.
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My stupid brain is only happy when it roams
Definitely concurring with this Warren Ellis post from a few days ago:
My problem, apparently, is that I’m interested in too many things. In fact, someone made a point of writing to my office a few weeks ago specifically to tell me that my interests aren’t interesting.
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The uni-context: you already know what it is, you just haven't got a name for it (yet)
This conversation between Derek Thompson and philosopher Agnes Callard is well worth reading in its entirety. Callard talks about the "uni-context" something which we all have felt as a kind of "context collapse" but haven't really had a more universal name for.
…Legitimacy without credential armour: my third coaching session
Yesterday, I had my third coaching session with Annalise Lewis of Manifesto. My write-up of the second session with her contains links to the workshop where I first experienced her approach and an overview of my first session.
…Personal Mythologies Coaching
What follows are my reflections of my second coaching session with Annalise Lewis of Manifesto. I've written up the first one about archetypes on my blog, as well as my reflections on the Myths We Live By workshop which introduced me to her work.
…Attention Spam
The thing that's shifted in my lifetime is shame as a public mechanism for affecting change. I still think that it has a massive effect (especially on men) in the personal realm, but because of news cycles, algorithmic feeds, and the pace of modern life, we live in a world of what this article calls "attention spam".
…Dumb iPhones
There's a lot of talk about dumbphones at the moment, at least in my circles. But, of course, everyone still wants access to WhatsApp, Signal, etc. So there's a whole niche of expensive 'dumb' phones which are supposed to help you reclaim your life.
…Per-tag RSS feeds
Just a quick note to say that each tag on Substrate now has an RSS feed. For example #philosophy has this feed. So you don't have to see my donkey memes if you don't want to.