Listening to: Work Song by Dan Reeder 🎵

Read: Three Types of Notes by Jorge Arango, who is writing a book on the topic.

A world made up of atomized, physically isolated people is a world without a true shared reality

Source: The Forgotten Joy of Hanging Out in ‘Third Places’ - The Atlantic 💬

Currently reading: Sea of Tranquility: A novel by Emily St. John Mandel 📚

Finished reading: Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman 📚

Less, how to manage your tasks, more:

To remember how little you matter, on a cosmic timescale, can feel like putting down a heavy burden that most of us didn’t realize we were carrying in the first place.

I dug it.

Literally fluffy giants. Can’t pet them though. Please fix that.

Source: Bears - Earth Reviews 💬

Liked: Marine Biodiversity by Zoe Keller via Dense Discovery.

Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.

Source: Tom Kerwin quoting Neil Gaiman 💬

Liked: Plain Text Sports.

Liked: Mobile Phone Museum, lots of classics in here.

Awesome van via F5: Bimma Williams Talks About the Best Chair, the Barbershop + More.

Want to read: Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall by Alexandra Lange 📚

Liked: Rectangles. Each rectangle represents 10 minutes of your day.

Read: There’s No Cool Like 1990s Cool. A nostalgia bomb.

Finished reading: The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi. A pop song of a novel, very fun. 📚.

Things I learned, the world has already “ended” at least five times.

Currently reading: Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman 📚

Things I liked this week: visitor centers, typical days, author notes, candid camera, and more.

Things I liked this week: Paper dungeons, ghost homes, life tests, and more

Things I liked this week synthetic paper, odd news, focus beats, walking, and more (1/22/21)

Things I liked this week evergreen notes, menacing Rube Goldberg devices, room tone, and more (jan.15.2021)

Perfectly circular home hides deep in the Polish forest

“It’s funny to think that we thought Gmail beat spam…but spam didn’t die, it morphed into pizza and music on other platforms."

Newsletters “or, an enormous rant about writing on the web that doesn’t really go anywhere and that’s okay with me.”

A foggy Christmas