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Paranoia ahead of revolution
The French Revolution, with its ideological rigidity and conspiracy theories, mirrors today’s political climate where politicians dismiss opposition without proper scrutiny.
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#19: Managing the what
Sometimes, to lead, you need to step out of the way. But finding the balance between autonomy and accountability is never easy.
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Writing Goals as Narratives
I think I stumbled on to a new of setting goals for myself. And I’m exciting to see how it goes this year.
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#18: Letting Time Use You
Being overwhelmed makes me think of time, and how to be inside of it rather than try to control it.
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#17: Our Personal Worlds
Kening Zhu advocates for creating a ‘digital garden’—a personal world prioritized over audience engagement. This serves as a reminder of the importance of reflection and personal ideology in shaping our digital and intellectual landscapes. It is something I want to focus on soon.
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#16: The build vs buy dilemma for personal decisions
As a tinkerer, I often grapple with the ‘build vs buy’ dilemma. ‘Building’ involves creating a personalized workflow system with light coding and no-code solutions, while ‘buying’ means embracing an existing app’s methodology. For years, I’ve used Obsidian for note-taking and organization. Recently, I considered building a second-brain app, similar to Obsidian or Roam, using…
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#15: Finding focus in the new year
I’m going to begin the year with introspection, uncertainty, and a desire for new experiences and growth. I have been thinking about focus and setting new goals now that I’ve found some success in prioritizing. But perhaps it is time for setting a new kind of focus. + East of Eden and the beauty in…
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#14: Holidays and the nature of conflict
Conflict, though complicated, is mediated through conversation. Something easy to forget during the holidays. + a post on how to blog so others can find you, thinking about the web and fun, ad collaborating with a team.
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#12: Web Components, Web Technologies and Things that Last
Web components are having a moment, and I think they’ve finally clicked. What does it mean to write on the web? And what is a mindful universe?
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Bleak House and Narratives
Dickens’ Bleak House is a powerful critique of industrialism and capitalism, cleverly intertwined with a captivating narrative. The novel exposes the frivolity of the ruling class and their disconnect from the victims of modernity. Through a compelling story, Dickens skillfully delivers his insightful rebukes.
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#11: Navigating the end of year scaries
Balancing a few things at once right now, but what I’m really excited about is focusing on a new direction for History of the Web, and getting that out into the world. + Almost done with Bleak House.
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Travelers in landscapes from our past
A post thanksgiving flurry into the holidays always has me thinking about the future.
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Choosing WordPress hosts for my personal site
I usually find my head spinning trying to pick out a new host. That still kind of happened this time, but it definitely went better.
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What’s the next move?
It used to be so easy to think about thinking, and now it takes effort. Is that the way life goes, or is it a product of our time?
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Inspiring, really.
A week of focus, and diving into some new nonfiction
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Thinking is an active pursuit
Learning how to think in three easy steps
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The Infinite Jest Review
A long time ago, I read Infinite Jest and I have what amounts to complicated feelings about. I think I fall firmly into the camp of people in which the book was not transcendental or life-changing, but still impressive to behold in its scope and depth. As I’ve been looking back through my notes on…
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Being in Time
Embracing the chaos, forgetting about time, thinking about innovation
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Men made it, but they can’t control it
And on to Grapes of Wrath
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Consuming films like Coca-Cola
Finishing my non-fiction sweep of Sculpting in Time and Just Keep Investing
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Did we tell you how the marmoset saved us from Hitler?
Advancing through the Tarkovsky opus.