Everyone Dies Alone
It's absurd
Check Your Paradiastoles
đ Love & paradiastoles in the time of shoggoths...
From Inbox Zero to Inbox Hero
Keeping email closed is one of the greatest life hacks in existence
Culture Is What We Collectively Agree upon
It's weird living through 2001 again 14 years later
Prompting Isn't a Strategy
Youâre not âworking smarterâ because you asked Claude to write your email thirty seconds faster. Thatâs not innovationâitâs intellectual laziness dressed up in a productivity metric.
I Mostly Just Want to Capture This Cool Photo of Milo on the Bike
Last weekend Milo and I rode the Bike the Bluebonnets bike rally in Ferris, TX for the third time....
Degenerated Democracies
My Belarussian Neighbor...
Naming Things Is Hard, but on Rare Occasions the Robot Will Make Me Laugh a Little
I was writing some fiction for fun...
We May Become Smaller, Cravenly Fusing to the Soul-stunting Object of Our Desire
If we go on, without rest, we slowly become whittled down versions of ourselves. Uncreated. It may be that we even, slowly, shirk off our usness, de-creating the very dirt and breath that makes us human. Other things begin to happen, as well, our smiles are cut away as joy is deemed useless by our own cruel inner clicking accountants.
More Learning to Walk in the Dark Highlights
I finished Barbara Brown Taylorâs Learning to Walk in the Dark, which I quoted here. All the other passages I highlighted were from chapter 7, The Dark Night of the SoulâŚ...
Escape the Apocalypse
Discovered a couple of older shows now streaming on Netflix and liked both for different reasons, despite their similar premises...
Those Fleeting Moments when the Waitress Asks You if You Want More Coffee
Social community is really important, and there seem to be fewer and fewer ways that we get it these days. Even those fleeting moments when the waitress asks you if you want more coffee...So many of our formerly routine social interactions have moved online or been automated away.
Beautiful Fidelities
You are in service to the world as it presents itself.
Comments on How Software Engineers Actually Use AI
Wired: How Software Engineers Actually Use AI...
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What Would Moses Say to People Who Feel Free to Ask God for Good Weekend Weather
The God of Moses is holy, offering no seat belts or other safety features to those who wish to climb the mountain and enter the dark cloud of divine presence. Those who go assume all risk and give up all claim to reward.
Spring Break: A Basketball Audible
We were headed to Tennessee to visit my MIL when she and her husband both came down with covid...
Spells and Prayers of Distributed Localism
The general vibes of these post-hope times is the dissolution of techno-optimism, often expressed in a techno-nostalgia...and the experience of techno-theology mirror the religious
What's the Situation, and What Can I Do About It?
A must read: Despite the horrors, the laundry must be done; Despite the laundry, the horrors must be faced...
VĂĄclav Havel on Hope
I had breakfast with a mentor a couple of weeks ago. I hadnât seen him in well over a year....