Nothing warms my body and soul like vintage LL Bean.
Idea: A book store that only sells small books. Mass market paperback and smaller. Books that area easy to take with you. Mix of new and used. $10 and less.
Speaking of personal productivity, here’s a hack…
Task yourself with a huge must-do project that has a deadline far out enough that you can safely procrastinate on it for a day or two.
Watch your productivity on every other possible thing go way up to avoid that one.
Focused 144 – Enough, with Patrick Rhone – Relay FM
I was honored to be a guest and talk about my personal productivity and a variety of other topics.
Wordle Sold to the NY Times. And That’s a Good Thing.
I agree with Kottke’s take on things. One of the reasons I stopped Minimal Mac at the height of its popularity was the weight of having to come up with something “new” to say and coming up empty.
My sister has a GoFundMe up to save houses on ancestral land that are near the point of no return.
Read the story of our Great-Great Grand Parents and how, post-slavery, they got land and used it to send generations to college.
Then give, if you can.
There is no one being that shoulders the burden of the trade. There is no golden world. The misery is distributed and the world still broken. One has to work hard to see this misery because our systems’ basic functioning depend on us never seeing it.
Jazz returns to the streets of New Orleans – CBS News
A nice feature on a key feature of my home town.
Impossible Silences – by L. M. Sacasas
Saying nothing, in other words, is not the same thing as silence. Silence is felt. It is meaningful. It is not mere negation.
The ice portal returns…
