Adactio: Journal—Going Offline—the talk of the book
logic is more important than code. In other words, figuring out what you’re trying to accomplish (and describing it clearly) is more important than typing curly braces and semi-colons. Programming is an act of translation. Before you can translate something, you need to be able to articulate it clearly in your own language first.
Deep text: a catastrophic threat to the bullshit economy?
Interesting (and scary) counter-trend thought, that deep text could make dull kinds of writing easier and better. I'd be out of a job.
h/t Chris Aldrich
Something Like a Scent — Ridgeline issue 009
Might be odd to bookmark a newsletter, but why not. And "little lexical tchotchkes from the past" -- even though it is in something Craig Mod quotes -- is too good to pass up.
"Tidying up is not joyful but another misuse of Eastern ideas"
I do still prefer folding my T-shirts the way Marie Kondo suggests.
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The tragedy of Brexit: not enough Pringles
Keep calm and snack on.
22 Brilliant at The Basics - Nicholas Bate
3. Make your own coffee. It's cheaper, it's better and it's therapeutic.
4. Make your own bread. See 3, except it's not cheaper.
Depends how you measure cost, obviously
h/t Matthew Lang
What counts? | The Enlightened Economist
Very interesting ideas on how classification systems affect the way we think, rather than vice versa.
"People can’t see what they take for granted until there is an alternative version not taking the same things for granted."
"After the perfect picture, what?"
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