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Week 25 - The turtle's last swim
December 31, 2020
This is the last issue in this Year of the Turtle. Thank you for swimming along with me this year. Back in 2019, I decided to write and share more in the...
Week 24 - Lookback
December 21, 2020
This is the penultimate issue in this year's newsletter experiment. It is a lookback, a retrospective of sorts, of this newsletter experiment. Over the past...
Week 23 - Flow and Personality quizzes
December 7, 2020
Been a while! So much is happening in the world - Covid-19, elections, politics, vaccines, holidays... In the middle of all this, what I've really been doing...
Week 22 - Work from home
September 20, 2020
Working from home. Simple and desirable right? Keep reading. Artwork by Kasia Bojanowska on Dribble 1. The Complete History of working from home But before...
Week 21 - Tragic beauty
September 13, 2020
The western coast of the United States is up in flames. 1. Oliver Burkeman's last column There will always be too much to do – and this realisation is...
Week 20 - Summer break
August 17, 2020
Starry Night and the Astonauts by Alma Thomson I'm back after an impromptu summer break. I didn't realize I was in one - I just couldn't make myself write....
🐢 Week 19 - Energy management
June 29, 2020
There is a known truth in the world. When we are young, we have time, energy but no money. As we get older, we have money and energy but no time. In the last...
🐢 Week 18 - On Journals
June 21, 2020
This issue is about journals. As someone who has been journaling on and off for about 15 years, this is an unpoetic, link-filled ode to journaling. Here are...
🐢 Week 17 - Social Justice
June 7, 2020
1. What does social justice even mean? Do you know what equality, equity and justice mean? Do you understand how they differ? Here is an infographic, shared...
🐢 Week 16 - Just Links
June 1, 2020
We are at the halfway point of this newsletter experiment. 15 issues done. 14 more to go! Today’s issue is just a straight collection of links. 1. Mental...
🐢Week 15 - Effortful art
May 10, 2020
1. Effort shock How difficult is becoming better at coding/painting/writing/running going to be? We estimate and plan, and then it turns out to be way way...
🐢Week 14 - Blends
April 27, 2020
After an impromptu break last weekend, back I am with what I have recently found interesting. Starting with the popcorn: 1. The reason the internet exists -...
Week 13 - Untranslatable
April 13, 2020
Part I - Untranslatables in the Zeitgeist A certain age, a certain generation has its own unique needs. Each such age sometimes borrows concepts and ideas...
Week 12 - I feel fine
April 6, 2020
How are all of you doing - this 1st or 4th or 10th week of staying at home, of social distancing, of physical isolation? I thought I was doing great,...
Week 11 - Is it real or is it fake
March 30, 2020
Some things I'm wondering about... Do you get 'hangry' when you are alone? You know, the linuistic mashup of 'hungry' and 'angry'... I've always found that...
Week 10 - Make things
March 23, 2020
1. Make things. Willie Nelson Quote in Austin Kleon's 'Keep Going' This is the time to be a creative rebel - to make things, to build things.Doodles,...
Week 9 🐢- Art in the Time of Pandemic
March 15, 2020
Here is some Art in the Time of Pandemic. Viruses can be deadly. And beautiful. And have inspired so many artists and scientists (a loose term to include...
Week 8 🐢- Under Ice
March 9, 2020
Fuchsia, by Dr. Dain L. Tasker ◣◥◤◢◣ ◥◤◆◥◤◢◣◥◤◢ 1. How to write usefully by Paul Graham I believe the formula I’ve given you, importance + novelty +...
Week 7 🐢- Fragile. Handle with care
March 1, 2020
The sipping of Antifragile by Nassim Taleb is percolating through my brain. I can't stop thinking about the fragility and antifragility of everything as I go...
🐢Week 6 - Extra mylineation of the neurons in your motor cortex
February 23, 2020
This past week was ski week. Schools were off for the week. We were near South Lake Tahoe - hitting the slopes everyday at Sierra@Tahoe. This is the fourth...
🐢Week 5 - Jim Collins
February 17, 2020
Last week, I listened and re-listened and re-re-listened to Shane Parrish talking to Jim Collins in Keeping the flywheel in motion. Some of the stories,...
🐢4 - drawing inspiration ...
February 9, 2020
In this week's newsletter, I'll try a bullet-point format - Inspiration: Austin Kleon. Do you like bullet points over un-bulleted paragraphs? Let me know. 8...
🐢Week 3 - Anything Goes
February 2, 2020
Happy February! There is this of something in the analog world inspires a creation in the digital world which inspires a creation in the analog world. I...
🐢Week 2 - Choices
January 26, 2020
Art for Uncanny Magazine by likhain ------------8<-------------[ cut here ]-------------- After last week's newsletter, I got into conversations about how...
🐢Week 1 - Experimenting with experiments
January 19, 2020
Instability series by Thomas Vanoost =^..^======^..^==^..^=====^..^==^..^======^..^= It's mid-January. It's the time of the year when most of our new year's...