Good tip from my friend Dave Caolo on easily unsubscribing from various email lists. A great end-of-year cleanup task.
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Colin Walker link again thanks to this excellent intro to Micro.blog which is open to the public today. It’s where I’ve been hanging out. Come on in, the water’s great!
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer by Walt Whitman
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
by Walt Whitman
When I heard the learn’d astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.
Nicholas Bate with a list of 22 things to let go of at year end. Important.
Colin Walker extends my metaphor in a good way.
“The web was not envisioned as a form of television when it was invented. But, like it or not, it is rapidly resembling TV: linear, passive, programmed and inward-looking.”
A Black man goes undercover with the alt-right and you’ll never believe what happens next (spoiler: he finds the roots of their fear and hatred may be the same as his).
Julian Summerhayes reminds us “just breathing, just being, is enough“. A wonderful audio meditation to start off Christmas week.
Rebecca Toh on the simple question you should ask to activate your inner compass.
Execupundit gives you some advice on filtering out news noise. Needed.