Sometimes you conduct an experiment and you end up leaving a cult… Leaving the Cult
Weightlifters understand the need to brace. The tight core and held breath can’t go on forever. Eventually the bracing ends… Bracing
Sometimes you read something that reminds you of something you wrote over a decade earlier - Why I don’t worry about the photos.
Sometimes you watch an ad and you have thoughts… Agentfarce
I have had the worst allergy attack today. I haven’t had this level of reaction in the a decade or more…
How do you set an alarm? Particularly when your alarm isn’t reliable?
I enjoy @caseyliss@mastodon.social’s take on respecting the user, and businesses successfully shooting themselves in the foot: Footguns. It feels too often that companies forget that their customers and users are the ones who pay them. Happier customers are more likely to sell your product for you.
Seeing all possible futures - thoughts on AI and why is hard to “bake in” when it is unpredictable.
Friendship rituals
I’m realizing that, in those friendships, there’s no shared ritual. Our points of connection depend on one of us having the time and energy to make the effort. It’s okay that our conversations, or our times together, are sporadic. Sometimes that’s simply all we have available.
Annie Mueller, on the rituals that make friendships sustainable.
I hike almost every weekend with a friend, sometimes it is 3 miles, and other times it is 5. We talk about life, politics, and football. The ritual of the hike creates opportunities, and deliberate space, for these conversations, and that is what is critical in maintaining the friendship. Creating and holding space, as my wife would say.
A friend said that we were “vibe popes” in hosting of our annual holiday party. Reading the description of what makes one a “vibe pope,” one could not help but get a little misty-eyed at feeling so seen.