On Airtable and Numbers
I tried out Airtable for a year, for a simple personal spreadsheet that I’ve been keeping for a few years now. It’s slick, and quick to enter data, but in the end I’ve decided to go back to Numbers.…
Micro
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Opening words
I decided to take pictures of the beginnings of three books at home. The first is from Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing. The second is from Maps of Meaning: The Architectu…
Youtube and Spotify
Youtube is always goiong to be superior to Spotify just because ... it has more stuff. The downside is that it's hard to know wtf is real any more, when searching for something. The upside is th…
Sky Guide
Apps on our smartphones get a bad rap for wasting our time, and deservedly. It's true that most are either harmful or neutral, or a distraction, or a minor convenience. One set of apps that are…
Deus Ex McKenna
I was going to make a short comment about liking some specific video, then thought I should provide context, then realized that I have … no real way to start because there was too much to say, and if…
A joke from some time ago
If I may share without comment, a translated version of a popular joke on Weibo a few years ago.…
Some board games to put on the list ....
Streaming posts
(FYI) Continuing my experiments in blogging patterns, I created https://cyberneticwords.com as a "stream of snippets" site. I will evaluate after a year if it's worth continuing it or no…
Road to awe
Something I first came across about a decade ago, and then again every few years: this re-arrangement of scenes from The Fountain, set to (and titled after) one of the tracks from its soundtrack. htt…
Random reading extract
On "... the terrible beauty of maps"
This captures so well what I sometimes feel about visual note-taking (basic mind-mapping, as well as more flexible, powerful tools): (Source) I’ve gotten to the point where I generally use outline a…
Why u no have footnotes, Medium?
Yuck, footnotes simply don’t render in Medium the way they do in Wordpress. I have no clue why this is so — it seems a terrible limitation in my opinion. There are notes, which are a poor substitute…