My wife writes about repairing vs. replacing old windows using two personal examples.
Category: thought
In the fullness of time, the files you create are more important than the tools you use to create them. Apps are ephemeral, but your files have a chance to last.
What we believe in.
There’s no obligation to help someone else’s business model.
Read this if you think you know what racism is – Full Stack Follies
Race is not real. It’s a label our society has dreamt up for creating categories of “other” people that are frequently used so we can think less of them. It’s classism. How hard is it to listen and respond when a person tells you what race they are? Or what gender they are? It should be no harder to do than hearing a person’s name and getting the pronunciation correct.
Agreed.
personal organization – The Homebound Symphony
Here’s my one piece of advice about personal organization: (calendars, tasks, planning, tracking): Think hard about your needs, pick a system, and then do not under any circumstances change it until at least one full year has passed.
The system I’ve used for at least 10 years now has not changed beyond adding a couple of new marks to my Dash/Plus method. For calendaring, my family lives and dies by BusyCal which was the natural progression of Now up-To-Date which I’ve used since my first Mac.
My wife writes on the topic of race and our daughter.
This is your regular reminder that race is a construct. That most biologists and anthropologists do not recognize race as a biologically valid classification, in part because there is more genetic variation within groups than between them. That some people just look different and are not easily classifiable. That some people who have multiple ethnicities in their linage may not look like it. Thus, any classification you may attempt is likely wrong. In fact, when one assumes someone of mixed heritage is only one of those based on how they look, you ignore and/or erase a part of that person’s identity. A part that is as equally meaningful and a part of their whole person. That making such assumptions based on how someone looks is the very definition of racism and your doing so only participates in and perpetuates a construct that was largely created to divide, classify, marginalize, erase, devalue, and suppress.
This reminder brought to you by my daughter who must face this daily and does so with strength, grace, wisdom, and pride.
Routine | The Most Advanced Calendar for Productive People
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This looks interesting. I’ve signed up to the wait list To take it for a spin.
Me in front of my bookcase at 18 years old. I was into encyclopedias before it was cool.
In the past few weeks in Vermont, we’ve had wildfire smoke from Canada forcing people to stay inside, a heat wave, and now this flooding. And Vermont is a place that is supposedly safer for climate refugees to go. But that’s the thing about a global climate crisis: it’s going to affect absolutely everyone absolutely everywhere.