Category: Notes
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I’m pretty dang positive they just bugged our office kitchen
I was standing there, conversing with my coworker and doing kitchen-y things, and a security guard and a guy with a military lanyard came in. “Excuse me,” they said. They popped a round metal disc about the size of a watch battery off a contact sheet and stuck it inside a cabinet door. “Thank you,”…
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Why I’m a nicer person than NBC
A little while ago, I tried doing something technical* that caused stories on this blog to be delayed in publishing by a half-day. This was in an attempt to make things better** but it didn’t work.*** At that time, I asked my subscribers to delete my old feed and sign up for my new one.…
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Strategic switch-off
I’m cultivating an appreciation for the power of switching off certain distractions, and the impact that has on my workflow. Currently, I have three levels of what I’m calling “lockdown” — or, less dramatically, tuning out the noise so I can get things done: Using the BlockSite add-on in Firefox to tune out a few…
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Prepare To Be Amazed
In the too-rarely-seen Disney movie Meet the Robinsons, the aptly-named Bowler Hat Guy greets a captive audience with these breathless words: “Prepare to be AMAZED!” There’s wisdom in there. We, as a culture, aren’t amazed often enough. We’re frequently amused, occasionally impressed, and rarely speechless. Maybe part of it is that we don’t “prepare” to…
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This Now
Sometimes I think about the fact that, subjectively, there really isn’t a “past” or “future.” I know things have happened, or will happen, but for us, as humans, we only exist and can make decisions in this one split, split, triple-split second. For one needle-width instant, we have free will — the past is locked…