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Four thousand years can give you such a crick in the neck…
This is self-help in a trenchcoat; it’s also a serious commentary on our increasing instrumentation of time
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My (re?)discovery of journalling – and how I reclaimed it from instrumentation.
Good intentions – or, when other people think they know your condition better than you, but they mean well.
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I bought Nick Brawl 2 on sale. It’s about time I got back in the saddle…
I am asking you once again to read my opinions on network effects
Playing to win is for losers.
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A brief respite from editing posts on polemic books to bring you news about the ex-bird site – news about its ex-users , that is.
The migration from X (formerly known as Twitter) to Mastodon gave researchers a golden opportunity to record data on the collective action problem. Spoilers: it’s pretty good news.
TOOT TOOT
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Content warning: Both of these books explore weight stigma, wellness culture, and fads that can be extremely destructive, physically and mentally. If you’re made uncomfortable by that, give this post a pass.On the flipside – if I get it wrong, I hope I’ve got it wrong better than most.
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In which the featured image does not display the books in chronological order, but in the order that I write about them.
This is the first in a series of posts about books I’ve read this year. Find the introduction here .
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Despite catching COVID, I’ve been doing a lot of reading. Approaching the end of the year, I find it appropriate to share what I’ve read.
I was going to do this all in one great big long post, but decided to split each book into separate posts.
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Plasticity’s the hot new 3D modeling app – and it sure makes a mean NURBS model;
NURBS used to dominate computer animation, and then subdivision surfaces happened. Is it time to give them another shot?
How do we classify the models we make? Is it worth it?
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Note-taking’s a miserable task – notebooks and siloed documents in word processors aren’t the only tools at your disposal.
Enter Zettelkastens – a method of linking notes together, built bottom-up, by you (with some general rules).
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Setting up my own blog locally on a Raspberry Pi was a proper treat. Moving that to the web was a bloody nightmare.
Hello, World: Twenty years late to the blogging party
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