: Varied Thrush and Pacific Wren Varied Thrush and Pacific Wren singing this morning, recorded via the Merlin App.

: Vaccines as Vehicles of Lovingkindness… “Vaccines are not only immensely useful; they …

: Prior to reading this article, I was ignorant of Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis, the idea that an …

: Wil Wheaton's Secret Garden I’ve thought about this lovely post from Wil Wheaton the past month as the garden leaps to bloom. …

: Few things in my life have over-delivered at the level of Cornell’s Merlin Bird ID app. Being able …

: Takeaways from "Deep Work" Finished reading: Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport 📚 One of …

: Takeaways from "Reader, Come Home" Finished reading: Reader, Come Home by Maryanne Wolf 📚 Deep Reading helps us develop and exercise …

: Vibe: First Light, by Village of the Sun.

: 2023 is starting out in a way that speaks to 5'4" me :) “There Has Never Been a Better …

: Notes from ‘Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals’ by Oliver Burkeman Five notions to consider as you look at your life in relation to time and “getting things done”: …

: Notes from “Letter One: Reading, the Canary in the Mind” From Reader, Come Home by Maryanne Wolf 📚 Summary: we need to look closely at how different mediums …

: “Reader Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World” by neuroscientist Maryanne Wolf is perhaps …

: “I want to insist on an amateur internet; a garage internet; a public library internet; a …

: All or Nothing and Backsliding A couple of weeks ago I came across a Tweet about a (Silicon Valley?) entrepreneur named Bryan …

: Mood: “Rising up like a beautiful bubble to the surface of the sea”

: Mornings are Magic Previously, I described how re-ordering my personal development tasks made it easier to write. Well, …

: This Fall I’ve been enjoying a plant-based riff on po cha, or butter tea. I had the yak version …

: “Because I’m finite, my task for the day can only possibly be to do a few things that matter.” …

: The Power of Tools & Structure to Begin Writing It’s taken me too long to start writing. Most mornings, thanks to Gordo Byrn and Dickie Bush, I …

: Currently reading: The Ministry for the Future: A Novel by Kim Stanley Robinson …

: Hello - and what am I doing here? I’m terrible at thinking publicly. More broadly, I’ve gotten lazy about how I think and …

: Last year at this time. Tomorrow we are apparently due for a repeat.

: Everything takes more time than it should. Alternatively, the correct amount of time.

: Current state of mind. And weather. (Also, just a test; please ignore).

: Ok. Taking this Sunday to wrap up my Twitter life, porting users to RSS and Mastodon. I can't …