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.
Substrate
A living collection of notes, ideas, and reflections from Doug Belshaw.
The next stage of the DCC
When WAO closed back in May I was delighted to be able to continue working with longtime friend and all-round awesome person Kerri Lemoie, Director of the Digital Credentials Consortium (DCC) through Dynamic Skillset. They've been based out of MIT Open Learning for the last eight years.
…4am view from our Lisbon apartment
I've got my eye on you
I've got one of those slim stands to raise my laptop for working while here in Lisbon. In the heat of the day, I'm inside next to the air conditioner, perched beside on a stand which has some artwork on it.
That eye staring at me is a little disconcerting...
…I like big books and I cannot lie
I've set myself the goal of reading Ada Palmer's Inventing the Renaissance this week, hopefully reading the bulk of it while here in Lisbon. My family bought it for me for Father's Day and I've been saving it specially.
…🌦️ Harmony and balance
Plus = Minus, Joseph Albers
Too much of anything is probably a bad thing, variety is the spice of life, and eudaimonia is what we should be aiming for.
Sent from my laptop, perched on a Lisbon balcony overlooking the Tagus.
…WFL (Working from Lisbon)
With my wife and daughter at The World Youth Cup 2026 in Gothenberg, my son and I decided to make the most of the time to ourselves by... flying to Lisbon. We'll be here until Friday, and I'll do a bit of work in the mornings and explore the city with him in the afternoons.
…News Canary: 12 July 2026
Every Sunday, my Little Robot Friend sends me a report which I call 'News Canary'. It assembles a weekly set of roughly ten "global change signal" stories from the last seven days, with at least one item from each continent It mixes hard developments (laws, policies, conflicts, technical releases) with soft signals (cultural shifts, viral posts) that may influence how systems evolve.
…It’s very difficult to be very lazy
It’s very difficult to be very lazy. It takes a lot of imagination to do nothing and you have to be sufficiently self-confident not to have a bad conscience. You have to have a taste for life, so that every minute is complete in itself and so you don’t have to keep saying ‘I’ve done this or that.’ You need strong nerves to do nothing. Being lazy also means that other people’s opinions don’t matter. Nor does the idea of always having to prove yourself.
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