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   url: https://lmno.lol/puddingtime/aspiration
   date: 2025-09-14T05:24:26Z
   file: lmno-lol-f6bq3n.txt
+- title: "Uses This / Roly Allen"
+  url: https://usesthis.com/interviews/roly.allen/
+  date: 2025-10-04T20:06:09Z
+  file: usesthis-com-dkir4f.txt
 - title: "David, please stop posting"
   url: https://johan.hal.se/wrote/2025/09/26/david-please-stop-posting/
   date: 2025-10-04T17:57:50Z
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 ### This Month
 
-* Adventure: Bull City Race Fest half-marathon, camping at Fairy Stone with friends, team offsite in Nashville
+* Adventure: Bull City Race Fest half-marathon, camping at [Fairy Stone][16] with friends, team offsite in Nashville
 * Project:
 * Skill:
 
+[16]: https://www.dcr.virginia.gov/state-parks/fairy-stone
+
 ### Reading & Listening
 
-* Fiction: [_Carl's Doomsday Scenario_][16], Matt Dinniman
-* Non-fiction: [_Title_][17], Author
-* Music: [_Like Water For Chocolate_][18], Common
+* Fiction: [_Carl's Doomsday Scenario_][17], Matt Dinniman
+* Non-fiction: [_The Notebook_][18], Roland Allen
+* Music: [_Like Water For Chocolate_][19], Common
 
-[16]: https://bookshop.org/p/books/carl-s-doomsday-scenario-matt-dinniman/f62cd04ed29db65c
-[17]: https://bookshop.org/
-[18]: https://www.turntablelab.com/products/common-like-water-for-chocolate-2lp
+[17]: https://bookshop.org/p/books/carl-s-doomsday-scenario-matt-dinniman/f62cd04ed29db65c
+[18]: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-notebook-a-history-of-thinking-on-paper/21106064
+[19]: https://www.turntablelab.com/products/common-like-water-for-chocolate-2lp
 
 ### Links
 
-* [David, please stop posting][19]
+* [Uses This / Roly Allen][20]
+
+  > I'm the author of The Notebook, a History of Thinking on Paper, which so far as I know is the first and only book on the subject, and thank-you-Jesus has been well received. I'm currently writing another history, but I can't tell you what of, and my day job is in illustrated book publishing.
+
+* [David, please stop posting][21]
 
   > I think most rubyists would be pragmatic enough to just accept things for what they are and let them settle, if he'd just let them. If he stopped posting inflammatory rightwing nonsense then we could all pretend he wasn't drunkenly stumbling towards the open arms of QAnon and the manosphere with tears of joy on his face. The deal is this: if he can shut his mouth, we can hold our noses. Then we can all make this work despite our differences.
 
-* [The Last Days Of Social Media][20]
+* [The Last Days Of Social Media][22]
 
   > The problem is not just the rise of fake material, but the collapse of context and the acceptance that truth no longer matters as long as our cravings for colors and noise are satisfied. Contemporary social media content is more often rootless, detached from cultural memory, interpersonal exchange or shared conversation. It arrives fully formed, optimized for attention rather than meaning, producing a kind of semantic sludge, posts that look like language yet say almost nothing.
 
-* [Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape][21]
+* [Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape][23]
 
   > Someone's trash is another person's web server.
 
-* [Through a Love of Note-Taking, José Naranja Documents His Travels One Tiny Detail at a Time — Colossal][22]
+* [Through a Love of Note-Taking, José Naranja Documents His Travels One Tiny Detail at a Time — Colossal][24]
 
   > From postage stamps to jetliner specifications to items he packed for the journey, José Naranja’s sketchbooks capture minute details of numerous international trips. “I’m lost in the intricate details, as always,” he tells Colossal. Everything from currency to noodle varieties to film references make their way into small books brimming with travel ephemera and observations.
 
-* [An E-bike For The Mind - by Josh Brake][23]
+* [An E-bike For The Mind - by Josh Brake][25]
 
   > At the end of the day, we must remember that innovation is a bargain. We often consider what technology promises to enable for us, without considering what it will almost certainly disable. Most of the time, we fail to stop and consider the tradeoffs. Perhaps e-bikes may give us a metaphor to frame our thinking.
 
-[19]: https://johan.hal.se/wrote/2025/09/26/david-please-stop-posting/
-[20]: https://www.noemamag.com/the-last-days-of-social-media/
-[21]: https://bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/projects/vapeserver/
-[22]: https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/04/jose-naranja-travel-notebooks/
-[23]: https://joshbrake.substack.com/p/an-e-bike-for-the-mind
+[20]: https://usesthis.com/interviews/roly.allen/
+[21]: https://johan.hal.se/wrote/2025/09/26/david-please-stop-posting/
+[22]: https://www.noemamag.com/the-last-days-of-social-media/
+[23]: https://bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/projects/vapeserver/
+[24]: https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/04/jose-naranja-travel-notebooks/
+[25]: https://joshbrake.substack.com/p/an-e-bike-for-the-mind