Started reading: The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy by Kliph Nesteroff 📚
Did not finish: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho📚 Not for me. I’ve gotten my fill of “embrace your destiny” allegories.
Smoke stacks near industry city.
What is my “authentic” self? There isn’t one. There are untold multitudes within me, all of which are as real as any other.
Tread of Angels by Rebecca Roanhorse taught me new terms.
- Abraxas, a word of spiritual significance to the Gnostics (also a Santana album)
- Chanteuse, a night club singer
- Heeled man, a lackey, a brown noser, willingly subjected dude
- Soiled dove, a female sex worker, used in the old West
Started reading: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho 📚
Finished reading: Tread of Angels by Rebecca Roanhorse📚
What a fantastic novella. Beautifully rendered, dripping with character, and not a wasted page.
🎙️ Fun episode of The Pursuit of Perfectness on perfectionism and reading.
I’m biased because I edit the podcast and sneak in as on-air talent.
TIL the term Jamais vu, which is essentially the opposite of déjà vu.
Jamais vu involves a sense of eeriness and the observer’s impression of experiencing something for the first time, despite rationally knowing that they have experienced it before.
Found it in this equally fascinating article on the strange scientific research awards.
🕹️ I just beat the original Kirby’s Dream Land for the original Gameboy. Took me an hour and a half. It’s short and relatively easy, but a real fun time. The last boss has a long annoying pattern though.
Every time it looks like the damage of the myth of perpetual growth and climate change couldn’t get any more stark. Wilful ignorance drives civilisation collapse
I haven’t posted anything today. Is that…good?
Currently reading: Tread of Angels by Rebecca Roanhorse 📚
Mozilla has a damning car privacy and security report. The worst offender? All of them. I’m grateful I don’t own a car, but I’m in the slim minority in the US. What a shit show.
Back in New York.
Finished reading: 50 Years of Text Games by Aaron A. Reed 📚A wonderful book. If you have any interest in games or novels, read it now.
I called into last weeks Best Show. I was nervous, not my best representation of myself, and I made the mistake of reading the chat, but still proud of myself. Its scary!
🕹️ Last night, I beat Death in Castlevania: Rondo of Blood. So difficult, even with Maria, the easier character! After that, I beat the Shaft boss gauntlet. Now, on to the final level and Dracula. It is hard.
Kyle E. Mitchell on confusing open source license terms.
Why not simply deprecate all these troublesome terms? Or push for more “correct” definitions? Because that doesn’t work… It’s all as self-limiting as…calling the Kindle the “Swindle”… The difference between the names we use and the names everyone else uses are merely unintentional lists of our clear political losses.
Many activists rely on ideological purity over more nuanced tactics, as the latter requires rigorous self reflection.
Having a simple playbook makes it easier to define for new members, and makes clear when the in group is performing their dogmatic duties.
These are real benefits to organizing. The problem: it doesn’t work well for achieving actual change.
Enjoyed this introspective post on consumption from hidden tiramisu. Taught me about the diderot effect, which is essentially the opposite of collector brain. Not wanting something is better than having it. Not having an apartment right now and traveling out of a backpack, I can co-sign on that.
Went for a bike ride with my dad. The ride left an impression. So did the helmet. In my head. #baldlife
From the Interconnected blog
creative works are commentaries on the act of creation.
Some examples I found more compelling than others, but overall an interesting lense to look at creative work. That the act of creating is made visible in the end product.
Austin Kleon quotes Alan Moore on inspiration for writers.
“If you are inspired by a good book, there’s always the danger of plagiarism, of doing something that is too much like that good book. Whereas, a genuinely helpful reaction to a piece of work that you’re reading is, ‘Jesus Christ, I could write this shit!’”
I’ve heard versions of this sentiment many times, and I subscribe to the notion. I certainly enjoy lots of bad media.
🎨 This one speaks for itself.