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❣ Chile in a Photography ❣
we're not kids anymore.
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occasionally subtle
YOU ARE THE REASON
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
wallacepolsom

Andulka

Love Begins

JBB: An Artblog!
Sade Olutola

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Discoholic 🪩
cherry valley forever
todays bird
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Three Goblin Art
trying on a metaphor

祝日 / Permanent Vacation
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A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox
(Henrik Karlsson)
In that vein, here are some things I've been thinking about -- and reading about -- lately:
Taxonomies
Protocols and Common Standards
Brian Eno
Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) / Second Brain / Tools for Thought
LLMs + Productivity
Grounded AI / Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems
Content Bookmarking
https://www.soul-md.xyz/
Dark Forest Theory of the Internet
Domestic Cozy
Digital Gardens
Commonplace Books
“If it doesn't have a URL, it probably didn't happen”
Technical writing / documentation
“Making the implicit explicit”
Working / Learning in public
Please send interesting links and thinkers my way!
Personal website manifestos
As I turn 40 and am unable to deny that I’m firmly in middle age, I’m reflecting on the first half of my career: one filled with a little ha
I’ve been toying in the last day or so with the idea of ‘outfluencers’ as a way to explain / express the movements of people and conversations away from typical scale-driven central gravity to a more free-floating, incentive neutral set of conditions that prioritizes non-programmatized human interaction (spontaneity), non-qualified, open participation (serendipity) and non-transactional benefit (serenity, kinda). Looking at ‘frictionmaxxing’ or ‘funmaxxing:’ (or various other zeitgesty trends captured in the links this week and lately) through those three vectors lends creedence to the inevitability, I think, that our shared technoanxiety is misplaced and that the natural state of AI etc will be like that of electricity; eventually invisible, omnipresent, less a consideration than an expectation. Except in places where it’s not (ie the natural world, in physical work etc), but in those it won’t be missed, either. “Outfluencer,” is a term that already exists, unsurprisingly, given its logical linguistic relationship to ‘influencers’; it’s used primarily (logically) by the Outdoor industry - but to describe Influencer-y behaviour in nature. I’m talking about something different: selective self-removal from big optimized system to embark spontaneously on building (or letting something be built) small. Not because it’s inherently hard, or inherently ‘anti’, but because it seems inherently (emotionally?!) logical right now. - Ben Dietz
drewshannon.net
Time to start blogging again?
Your corporate role doesn't need to be meaningful. It needs to be useful. Useful for building skills, for funding your real projects, for buying time while you figure out what matters to you. The death of the corporate role isn't a crisis. It's freedom from having to pretend your spreadsheet about spreadsheets is your life's work.
I’m not sure if anyone reads Tumblr anymore, but things have been pretty quiet on the blog-front lately, as I’ve been busy traveling, welcoming a new member our household, and beginning my “solopreneurial” experience through a new consulting business called Modest Operations.
As part of my new professional journey, I’m launching a new weekly email newsletter with links, news, and other tidbits. If you’ve ever been a fan of my “This Week” blog posts before, this will be a little like that.
To follow along, please subscribe to the new email newsletter HERE.
Jackson Hole, WY. January 2018
A few from Jackson Hole, WY. January 2018.
Colorado, February 2017
This Week
"Just because it’s fun to hang out at the water cooler at work, it doesn’t mean I want to work there....
There’s also a subtle side effect to asynchronish business, and that is its effect on the decision making process. When work gets done over email, there’s a general expectation of a response buffer of at least an hour or two. In you, though, people can convene and decide on anything at any time.
This is awesome for speeding up the tempo of company directives, but it also places a ton of pressure on everyone involved to maintain even MORE Slack omnipresence; if any discussion might lead to a decision being made, that provides a whole lot of incentive to be available for as many discussions as possible.
Even worse, those with the least on their plates can maintain the most Slack presence, which leads to the most gregariously unengaged representing the majority of the discussion base while penalizing those who are fully engaged in their “real” work."- Slack, I’m Breaking Up with You (Samuel Hulick for UserOnboard)
“Harmon handled it the way he handles everything: out loud, in front of strangers. It’s the way he handled his divorce (episode 167) and the complicated relationship he has with his parents (too many episodes to name). It’s how he’s confronted the estranged brother who called him a lazy piece of shit and hasn’t spoken to him in 12 years. It’s where he works out his guilt about his sister, born with the rare neurological disorder Rett syndrome, which has left her institutionalized for most of her life. ‘I feel like I was born a criminal,’ Harmon tells me. ‘With a karmic credit card that’s maxed out.’ He says these things in hope of staving off inevitable retribution.” - The Tortured Mind Of Dan Harmon (Sean O’Neal for GQ)
“Over time, I realized that the natural instinct to push for early impact leads many incoming leaders into challenging relationships as they expose their knowledge deficit and waste time. So, I developed an algorithm that has helped me ramp up quickly — and in several cases — have an impact in a relatively short period of time, while minimizing collateral damage.” - A Career Cold Start Algorithm (Andrew Bosworth for Boz.com)
“’Just take the blame, and you’re a free man,’ he said.” - Tough Job: Norway’s Ski Wax Chief Is Only Noticed When He Fails (David Segal for The New York Times)
“For every person who wants you to have bigger portions, there is someone who says the portions are too big. For every person who says your writing is too personal, there’s someone who wants it to be more personal…” - Seth’s Blog: Never smooth enough–a modern addiction (Seth Godin for Seth’s Blog)
Blind Barber, 2018.
Hi. 2018.