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1 --- 2 title: "Dispatch #28 (June 2025)" 3 date: 2025-06-05T02:24:11-04:00 4 draft: false 5 tags: 6 - dispatch 7 references: 8 - title: "Move, resize, and organize windows with Stage Manager on iPad - Apple Support" 9 url: https://support.apple.com/guide/ipad/move-resize-and-organize-windows-ipad1240f36f/ipados 10 date: 2025-06-05T05:45:20Z 11 file: support-apple-com-t121b2.txt 12 - title: "How to Finally Divorce Your Toxic Sports Team | GQ" 13 url: https://www.gq.com/story/how-to-finally-divorce-your-toxic-sports-team 14 date: 2025-06-05T06:02:43Z 15 file: www-gq-com-gqmumq.txt 16 - title: "Opinion | There’s a Link Between Therapy Culture and Childlessness - The New York Times" 17 url: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/opinion/therapy-estrangement-childless-millennials.html 18 date: 2025-06-03T15:48:53Z 19 file: www-nytimes-com-7wlxcp.txt 20 - title: "Searls of Wisdom for April 2025 | justin․searls․co" 21 url: https://justin.searls.co/mails/2025-04/ 22 date: 2025-06-03T15:49:19Z 23 file: justin-searls-co-bifdrg.txt 24 - title: "The Imperfectionist: Navigating by aliveness" 25 url: https://ckarchive.com/b/zlughnhk8772ma7qrr9qehwzgng00f6 26 date: 2025-06-03T15:49:22Z 27 file: ckarchive-com-yhbgos.txt 28 - title: "Moleskine Mania: How a Notebook Conquered the Digital Era | The Walrus" 29 url: https://thewalrus.ca/moleskine/ 30 date: 2025-06-03T15:49:29Z 31 file: thewalrus-ca-714tb6.txt 32 - title: "Junk Contemplations | Brain Baking" 33 url: https://brainbaking.com/post/2025/05/junk-contemplations/ 34 date: 2025-06-03T15:49:34Z 35 file: brainbaking-com-s3rbn8.txt 36 - title: "How to think - cliophate.wtf" 37 url: https://cliophate.wtf/how-to-think 38 date: 2025-06-03T15:49:38Z 39 file: cliophate-wtf-ja3aad.txt 40 --- 41 42 Bamboo killing season is over, now we're onto goddamn cockroach season. I've lived in the South for a quarter century but I don't think I'll ever get used to seeing one of those things scurry across the floor. We went down to Lake Norman for Memorial Day weekend, spent a bunch of time on the new (to us) pontoon boat. So much fun. The kids loved it, and I look forward to many more years with them out on the water. 43 44 <!--more--> 45 46 {{<dither IMG_8286.jpeg "782x600">}}Little captain laughing with her inflatable shark while cruising across the lake.{{</dither>}} 47 {{<dither IMG_8290.jpeg "782x600">}}Mom and baby beam with matching grins while cruising on a sunny lake.{{</dither>}} 48 49 Here's some new music: 50 51 <audio controls src="/journal/dispatch-28-june-2025/Updraft.mp3"></audio> 52 53 Not thrilled with the final result here but this does feel like progress: I used different drum samples than usual, which give a less techno, more lo-fi feel, and I designed both bass patches myself rather than just flipping through presets until I found something workable. 54 55 My laptop crapped out on the last week of a big project at work. I was able to cobble together a setup using an old ThinkPad for coding + my iPad for everything else; an iPad with an external monitor and [Stage Manager][1] is pretty slick. Then I was able to grab a spare from work and restore everything from Time Machine. I spend a lot of time thinking about backups I never wind up using, so this was a nice reminder that keeping a few different backups -- one you can access from any device, one you can use for a full system restore -- is worth the time and expense. The project launched successfully. I'll post a link once it's ready for the public. 56 57 [1]: https://support.apple.com/guide/ipad/move-resize-and-organize-windows-ipad1240f36f/ipados 58 59 Busy June ahead of us: Nico turns one in a few days (man time flies), then we're off to the beach with Claire's family, then I'm headed to the [Eastern Shore][2] to hang with a buddy of mine and make some synth jams. 60 61 [2]: https://visitesva.com/ 62 63 Finally, I've been following the Tottenham Hotspur football club for ten years. I was just about ready to give up on them, between not having time to watch a lot of matches and the terrible vibes this season. [This piece felt pretty targeted.][3] Then they went and won the Europa cup, their first silverware in 17 years and the third-coolest thing you can win in a season. Let's hope they keep Ange around. 64 65 [3]: https://www.gq.com/story/how-to-finally-divorce-your-toxic-sports-team 66 67 ### This Month 68 69 * Adventure: [Holden Beach][4], [Eastern Shore][2] 70 * Project: music in Eastern Short; might try [OpenAI Codex][5] to build a 3D web toy; might even try surgery on my old laptop to see if I can get it working again 71 * Skill: the usual music production stuff; really looking forward to picking up some new skills (synthesis, Ableton) 72 73 [4]: https://www.ncbrunswick.com/islands-towns/holden-beach/ 74 [5]: https://openai.com/index/introducing-codex/ 75 76 ### Reading & Listening 77 78 * Fiction: [_Invasive_][6], Chuck Wendig 79 * Non-fiction: [_The Notebook_][7], Roland Allen 80 * Music: [_Trans Pacific_][8], Gas Lab & Kazumi Kaneda 81 82 [6]: https://bookshop.org/p/books/invasive-chuck-wendig/6437961 83 [7]: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-notebook-a-history-of-thinking-on-paper/21106064 84 [8]: https://gas-lab.bandcamp.com/album/trans-pacific 85 86 ### Links 87 88 * [There’s a Link Between Therapy Culture and Childlessness][9] 89 90 > I thought of the love I felt for the unborn little thing within me — just then, just beginning to make its presence known with a kick and flutter and a flip — and I felt bowled over by all that I had not understood. The love my parents had felt, do feel, that I had recognized in the abstract, I had so often overlooked. 91 92 * [Searls of Wisdom for April 2025][10] 93 94 > Planet Earth is undeniably a bit of a shitshow at the moment, but I'm actually feeling optimistic that we're approaching the precipice of something that will—once we get to the other side of it—feel like the beginning of a sea change in how information is organized, constituted, and distributed. To wit: skepticism of information technology has materialized and matured from opposite ends of the political spectrum, and advocates from both sides are meeting in the middle with relatively boring policy prescriptions like regulating the use of smartphones in schools and expanding the scope of antitrust actions. Seems… fine, actually? 95 96 * [Navigating by aliveness][11] 97 98 > And if in a year or two or ten the paragraphs above look hopelessly naïve … well, I think I’ll be glad to have been naïve, in this context. Because I suspect that a certain form of naivete may be a precondition for aliveness. 99 100 * [Moleskine Mania: How a Notebook Conquered the Digital Era][12] 101 102 > “Do you know there’s a section of our customer base that buys a fresh Moleskine every time they come into a store? We have no idea what they do with them” 103 104 * [Junk Contemplations][13] 105 106 > All of these things hurt my eyes, even though this has more or less been the state of stuff in our home for the past two years. I just can’t get used to it, something keeps on urging me to clean up, and I indeed have the feeling that that is exactly what I do all day long every single day—without much success. 107 108 * [How to think][14] 109 110 > I expect that when, and if, the AI revolution arrives, people who have the ability to think are the ones who will not be left behind. Thinkers will be the ones who will thrive in these uncertain times. 111 112 [9]: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/opinion/therapy-estrangement-childless-millennials.html 113 [10]: https://justin.searls.co/mails/2025-04/ 114 [11]: https://ckarchive.com/b/zlughnhk8772ma7qrr9qehwzgng00f6 115 [12]: https://thewalrus.ca/moleskine/ 116 [13]: https://brainbaking.com/post/2025/05/junk-contemplations/ 117 [14]: https://cliophate.wtf/how-to-think