“Meanwhile, my little home-cooked apps each do the one thing they are supposed to do, sparkle-free. These apps are substantially finished the day I “launch” them, and, unlike modern commercial software, they are allowed to just: be finished.”
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Watch: Little Joys (2 minutes)
Look: Living seasonally
The return of the Pebble watch
The new watch we’re building basically has the same specs and features as Pebble, though with some fun new stuff as well 😉 It runs open source PebbleOS, and it’s compatible with all Pebble apps and watchfaces. If you had a Pebble and loved it…this is the smartwatch for you. Why We’re Bringing Pebble Back I’m so in!
Solitude changes us
The individual preference for solitude, scaled up across society and exercised repeatedly over time, is rewiring America’s civic and psychic identity. And the consequences are far-reaching—for our happiness, our communities, our politics, and even our understanding of reality. From The Anti-Social Century. Emphasis mine.
A secret attic workspace
From r/CozyPlaces.
Fiction resists summary
It is an interesting feature of stories and fiction that they resist summary. You cannot read a summary of Anna Karenina and somehow stockpile its pleasures and charms. Narrative resists compression. Resist Summary
Good advice
Art by Eve De Haan. Photographer unknown. /via Future Now / are.na
Go light
Light Phone 3
a recurrent theme is a fatigue with the style of self-narration that the platforms encourage — which, whether we realize it or not, has been heavily influenced by brand storytelling logics. We talk about ourselves like we’re products.