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.
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Today’s lesson in Democracy; school walkout to exercise our first amendment rights. Reminder, the only thing that will stop bad guys with a constitutional amendment is good guys with a constitutional amendment.
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.
“My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.”
— Stephen Hawking, The Science of Second-Guessing (New York Times Magazine Interview, December 12, 2004)
Wanna know what was happening on the day of my birth? This. This was happening on the day of my birth. Dizzy, live at The Village Vangard. With Chick Corea and Elvin Jones. Recorded October 1, 1967.
“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.
“Get news. Not too quickly. Avoid social.”
For Two Months, I Got My News From Print Newspapers. Here’s What I Learned.
Sounds heavenly.
My wife, Bethany, with a powerful post about anger vs. mental illness: Mad vs. Madness