the foghorn // yawn
Miss Persimmon - I tried to embed a gif but it eluded me.
It's easy for me to look at failure as a self contained event. It can be painful and embarrassing to make myself vulnerable and have it not pay off. Though, failure doesn't occur in a vacuum, does it? There are little braveries hidden in the risks taken.
In my head, a success is a positive, corporeal thing. If this is the case, then a failure is surely the inverse. But, if there is to be balance (which I think is safe to assume) the negative space surrounding a failure is the component where a sneaky success can lie. The context of failure is, in many of my cases, more important to focus on than the thing itself.
As I've spent the last several months butting my head into immovable problems, these are the things I've thought about.
No one likes reading someone else's internal monologue about success though. I won't bore you any longer.
I haven't done anything clever, as you may expect from a horn-tooting newsletter. I got a new desk, built another PC, and got better at a dumb fighting game than what may be reasonable. I traveled a few places, and saw some bands I like. Once I find another lab, I'll have photos from last year processed to share here, though, and there's always more code to be written.
A couple years of rock climbing taught me that Complacency Kills. Thusly, I shrug off the last few months and shamble on into the next ones. Alan Watts might have called this The Watercourse Way, but I don't want to put words in his mouth.
I'm working my way through:
- The Pragmatic Programmer
- A book about LISPs
- A dozen articles about Software Defined Radio and amateur satellite tracking with radio telescopes
A small collection of links:
ONBG meeting, July 2021 – Blenheim wild bees | Oxfordshire Natural Beekeeping Group
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Our Self-Imposed Scarcity of Nice Places
Why is it that when a place is [pick one: walkable, bikeable, beautiful, lovable, inviting, human-scale], it so often gets coded as being “gentrified” or “upscale”?
