On Kottke, a selfish argument for making the world a better place. Some food for thought. That said, heavy on the argument but not on solutions (which are far, far, more difficult for many complex reasons).
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A New View of The Moon. Lovely. Makes me wish I knew someone with that nice of a telescope.
Alan Pike recommends making your inbox Human-Only as a path to email sanity. Some good ideas. I’ve done this for years. My personal account is self hosted. All non-human email goes to a Gmail account I only use for that purpose. It’s likely why I love email.
Kottke.org is 20 years old today. I discovered him in the Ocil8 days, when he was a local designer here in the Twin Cities. So, I’ve been following Jason’s work for even longer than that. Amazing.
“You’re not Black.” — My wife relates the challenges of of raising a child of color in a world that judges such things by looks alone. Be sure to watch the video she links to too.
My wife, Bethany, with a powerful post about anger vs. mental illness: Mad vs. Madness
Matt Hayhurst brings us a Nina Simone song I’ve never heard before, Isn’t It A Pity. So good!
One of my favorite annual reads, the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Report. So much one can learn about investing, finance, corporate stewardship, playing the long game, and more. Written by Warren Buffett himself. Don’t bet against him.
The stories varied, but most people told the same basic tale: of a company, and a CEO, whose techno-optimism has been crushed as they’ve learned the myriad ways their platform can be used for ill.
Inside Facebook’s Hellish Two Years—and Mark Zuckerberg’s Struggle to Fix it All | WIRED