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- dispatch
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references:
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- title: "OpenSCAD Is Kinda Neat – nuxx.net"
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url: https://nuxx.net/blog/2025/12/20/openscad-is-kinda-neat/
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date: 2026-01-07T14:53:56Z
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file: nuxx-net-xnrgb7.txt
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- title: "December 2025 - Tim Hårek"
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url: https://timharek.no/blog/2025-december-recently/
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date: 2026-01-07T14:55:06Z
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file: timharek-no-dea3rz.txt
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- title: "Home is where my stuff is | Ruslan Osipov"
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url: https://rosipov.com/blog/home-is-where-my-stuff-is/
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date: 2026-01-06T05:32:49Z
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file: rosipov-com-qbdcgh.txt
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- title: "Aspiration"
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url: https://lmno.lol/puddingtime/aspiration
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date: 2025-09-14T05:24:26Z
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file: lmno-lol-f6bq3n.txt
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- title: "Food Comas and Some Bests • Buttondown"
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url: https://buttondown.com/nathanlong/archive/food-comas-and-some-bests/
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date: 2026-01-06T18:39:37Z
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file: buttondown-com-lxmsti.txt
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- title: "3 books with Samuel Arbesman (Interconnected)"
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url: https://interconnected.org/home/2025/11/14/arbesman
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date: 2026-01-06T18:40:18Z
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file: interconnected-org-9bc7pq.txt
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- title: "2025 Year in Review - macwright.com"
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url: https://macwright.com/2025/12/07/year-in-review
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date: 2025-12-18T15:21:17Z
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file: macwright-com-5fr93r.txt
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---
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Some thoughts here...
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* Nev 4th birthday
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* Trip to Asheville
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* Christmas in Greensboro
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* [Winter Wonderlights][1]
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* Lake
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* [Gabby][2]
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* Urban Air
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* Spending time with old people
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* Christmas vs. Thanksgiving
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[1]: https://www.greensboroscience.org/winterwonderlights/
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[2]: https://camp.com/gabbys-dollhouse-x-camp-charlotte
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## Music
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* “My Favorite Kings”
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* <audio controls src="/journal/dispatch-35-january-2026/My Favorite Kings.mp3"></audio>
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* ["Magical 8bit Plug"][3]
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* “Signal Drift”
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* <audio controls src="/journal/dispatch-35-january-2026/Signal Drift.mp3"></audio>
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* [Bass pedal][4]
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[3]: https://ymck.net/app/magical-8bit-plug-en
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[4]: https://zoomcorp.com/en/us/multi-effects/bass-effects/b1-four-b1x-four/
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---
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## 3D Printing
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* [Bambu Lab P1S][5]
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* Toys
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* Crap catchers (["fancy new kitchen knives"][6])
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* [Blender][7]
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* [OpenSCAD][8] ([via][9])
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* James / plastics / pet causes
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* AI, Twitter
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{{<dither crap-catcher.jpg "782x600">}}A 3D model of a long rectangular tray or catch basin in Blender, shown in wireframe-style shading with the scene axes visible.{{</dither>}}
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{{<dither IMG_9650.jpeg "782x600">}}A refrigerator with a 3D printed shelf above a strip of knives.{{</dither>}}
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[5]: https://us.store.bambulab.com/products/p1s?id=583855874739507208
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[6]: https://www.macknife.com/
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[7]: https://www.blender.org/
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[8]: https://nuxx.net/blog/2025/12/20/openscad-is-kinda-neat/
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[9]: https://timharek.no/blog/2025-december-recently/
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---
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## Misc.
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* [Post about stuff (at getting rid of it)][10]
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* [Cf. post about the word “want”][11]
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* AI talk
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* These tools don’t replace thinking
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* They reward good & clear thinking
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* Good software development practices still apply
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* And in some cases, matter even more
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* Abundance mindset over zero-sum
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* Health post series
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[10]: https://rosipov.com/blog/home-is-where-my-stuff-is/
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[11]: https://lmno.lol/puddingtime/aspiration
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{{<dither IMG_9467.jpeg "782x600">}}Big sister in a purple puffer hugs her giggling little brother on the playground, both in bright blue shoes and grinning wide.{{</dither>}}
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{{<dither IMG_2575.jpeg "782x600">}}Dad in a gray robe laughing as he hauls two giggling kids through a leaf-covered yard.{{</dither>}}
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<audio controls src="/journal/dispatch-35-january-2026/My Favorite Kings.mp3"></audio>
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* <https://ymck.net/app/magical-8bit-plug-en>
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### This Month
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* Adventure:
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### Reading & Listening
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* Fiction: [_Title_][1], Author
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* Non-fiction: [_Title_][2], Author
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* Music: [_Title_][3], Author
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* <https://johncarrollkirby.bandcamp.com/album/septet>
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* <https://macwright.com/2025/12/07/year-in-review>
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* </journal/dispatch-15-may-2024/>
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* Fiction: [_The Will of the Many_][12], James Islington ([via][13])
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* Non-fiction: [_The Magic of Code_][14], Samuel Arbesman ([via][15])
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* Music: [_Septet_][16], John Carroll Kirby ([via][17], though one track is on my [Lisbon playlist][18])
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[1]: https://bookshop.org/
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[2]: https://bookshop.org/
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[3]: https://www.turntablelab.com/
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[12]: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Will-of-the-Many/James-Islington/Hierarchy/9781982141189
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[13]: https://buttondown.com/nathanlong/archive/food-comas-and-some-bests/
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[14]: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/samuel-arbesman/the-magic-of-code/9781541704480/
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[15]: https://interconnected.org/home/2025/11/14/arbesman
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[16]: https://johncarrollkirby.bandcamp.com/album/septet
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[17]: https://macwright.com/2025/12/07/year-in-review
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[18]: /journal/dispatch-15-may-2024/#fn:1
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December 22, 2025
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Food Comas and Some Bests
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In which I slip into a two-week food coma and reflect on some of my favorite
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things from 2025.
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Hey friends,
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2025 is coming to a close, and I'm about to embark on a holiday food coma until
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the New Year. If you're traveling, stay safe, and I'll see you all in 2026!
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A Year In Review 🔭
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Some Random Stats 📈
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Last year, I tracked some random stats. Let's see how I did this year:
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• 12 projects contributed to
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it in 2026)
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Best Book of the Year 📖
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So many good books this year, but [8]Will of the Many took the trophy with its
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whole "Harry Potter but he's a former pit-fighter-turned-student in a magic
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Roman Empire analog that's corrupt, and everyone's trying to kill each other"
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vibes. Good times.
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Movie I Actually Remember 🎥
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Maybe "Best Movie" to too big of a title for this year and we'll settle for
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"Movie I Actually Remember" which was [9]Thunderbolts* for focusing just a
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LITTLE more on the emotional aspect of the characters and the traumas they've
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faced than just the action.
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Best Video Game of the Year 🎮
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[10]Dredge is a Lovecraftian horror fishing game that I found engaging. I loved
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exploring the different islands and having NOPENOPENOPE moments as I dug deeper
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into what was going on. It doesn't ask too much of you either—I finished the
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base game in about 16 hours.
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Best Board Game of the Year 🎮
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[11]Tag Team was released in late 2025 and immediately caught my interest with
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how much fun it was to set up this little auto-battler. The drama of the reveal
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in whether you correctly moved your block to the right sequence or whether you
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managed to land that combo made it my personal biggest board game hit of 2025!
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Interesting Web Bits 🍜
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Web Stuff
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• Cassidy shows us how to [12]pause CSS animations with getAnimations()
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• Dan Abramov has built [13]an explorer for RSC to help show folks how React
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Server Components work under the hood.
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• Chris Feijoo has a wonderful post on [14]achieving the liquid glass effect
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with SVG.
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Other Stuff
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• Jim talks about sitting with the [15]"I don't know...". (Of which I have
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become increasingly convinced I know hardly anything at all!)
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• But we often even [16]forget what we know, especially when it moves outside
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'our' area
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• Marcin Wichary talks about {nostalgia of a childhood in Poland and clocks]
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(https://aresluna.org/the-clock/). What is it for you that transports you
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back to simpler times?
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• Taylor shows us [17]how to title.
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Weird, Watch, and Play
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• 📺 I'm a sucker for both slomo AND factory videos. Watch this Japanese
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factory [18]make wooden pencils.
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• 📺 Or if you're feeling like you need to up your Christmas wrapping game,
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watch these [19]japanese speed wrapping demonstrations.
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[14] https://kube.io/blog/liquid-glass-css-svg/?utm_source=nathanlong&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=food-comas-and-some-bests
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3 books with Samuel Arbesman
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17.16, Friday 14 Nov 2025 [16]Link to this post
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I had a look to see when I first mentioned Samuel Arbesman here. It was 2011:
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[17]the average size of scientific discoveries is getting smaller.
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Anyway I’ve been reading his new book, [18]The Magic of Code (official site).
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There’s computing history, magic, the simulation hypothesis, and a friendly
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unpacking of everything from procedural generation to Unix.
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And through it all, an enthusiastic appeal to look again at computation, as if
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to say, look, isn’t it WEIRD! Isn’t it COOL! Because we’ve forgotten that code
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and computation deserves our wonder. And although this book isn’t an apology
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for technology (`computing is meant to be for the humans', says Arbesman), it
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is a reminder - demonstrated chapter by chapter - that wonder, delight and
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curiosity are there to be found.
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(And if we look at computation afresh then we’ll have new ideas about what to
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do with it.)
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Now I’m decently well-read in this kind of stuff.
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Yet The Magic of Code is bringing me new-to-me computing lore, which I’m
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loving.
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So, in the spirit of a virtual book tour - an old idea from the internet where
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book authors would tour blogs instead of book stores, [19]as previously
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mentioned - I asked Samuel Arbesman for a reading list: 3 books from the Magic
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of Code bibliography.
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(I’ve collected [20]a couple dozen 3 Books reading lists over the years.)
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I’ll ask him to introduce himself first…
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Samuel! Tell us about yourself?
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I’m a [21]scientist and writer playing in the world of venture capital as
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[22]Lux Capital‘s Scientist in Residence, where I help Lux explore the
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ever-changing landscape of science and technology, and also host a podcast
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called [23]The Orthogonal Bet where I get to speak with some of the most
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interesting thinkers and authors I can find. I also write books about
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science and tech, most recently [24]The Magic of Code, as well as The
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Half-Life of Facts and Overcomplicated. The themes in my work are often
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related to radical interdisciplinarity, intellectual humility in the face
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of complex technologies and our changing knowledge, and how to use tech to
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allow us to be the best version of ourselves.
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The best way to follow me and what I’m thinking about is my newsletter:
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[25]Cabinet of Wonders.
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I asked for three fave books the bibliography…
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#1. Ideas That Created the Future: Classic Papers of Computer Science, edited
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by Harry R. Lewis
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I love the history of computing. It’s weird and full of strange turns and
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dead ends, things worth rediscovering and understanding. But it’s far too
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easy to forget the historically contingent reasons why we have the
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technologies that we have (or simply know the paths not taken), and
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||||
understanding this history-including the history of the ideas that
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undergird this world-is vital. More broadly, I want everyone in tech to
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have a “historical sense” and this book is a good place to start: it’s a
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handbook to seminal ideas and developments in computing, from the ELIZA
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chatbot and Licklider’s vision of “man-computer symbiosis” to Dijkstra’s
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hatred of the “go to” command. Because the ideas we are currently grappling
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with are not necessarily new and they have a deep intellectual pedigree.
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Want to know the grand mages of computing history and what they thought
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about? Read this book.
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Ideas That Created the Future: Classic Papers of Computer Science: [26]Amazon
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#2. In the Beginning… Was the Command Line, Neal Stephenson
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I’m pretty sure that I first read this entire book–it’s short–in a single
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sitting at the library after stumbling upon it. It’s ornery and opinionated
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about so many computing ideas, from Linux and GUIs to open source and even
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the Be operating system (it was written in the 1990’s and is very much of
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its time). Want to think about these ideas in the context of bizarre
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metaphors or a comparison to the Epic of Gilgamesh? Stephenson is your guy.
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This expanded my mind as to what computing is and what it can mean (the
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image of a demiurge using a command line to generate our universe has long
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stuck with me).
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In the Beginning… Was the Command Line: [27]Amazon / [28]Wikipedia
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#3. Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine, Chaim Gingold
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Chaim Gingold worked with Will Wright while at Maxis and has thought a lot
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about the history of SimCity. And when I mean history, I don’t just mean
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the way that Maxis came about and how SimCity was created and published,
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though there’s that too; I mean the winding intellectual origins of
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SimCity: cellular automata, system dynamics, and more. SimCity and its
|
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foundation is a window into the smashing-together of so many ideas–analog
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computers, toys, the nature of simulation–that is indicative of the proper
|
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way to view computing: computers are weirder and far more interdisciplinary
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than we give them credit for and we all need to know that. Computing is a
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liberal art and this book takes this idea seriously.
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Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine: [29]Amazon
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Hey here’s a deep cut ref for you: in 2010 [30]Arbesman coined the term
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[11][Screenshot-2025-12-20-at-12]Designing a simple battery holder in OpenSCAD.
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Earlier this year I designed a very basic box/organizer for [12]AA and [13]AAA
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AA = 15;
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AAA = 11;
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heightCompartment = 19;
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thicknessWall = 1;
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widthBox = (numRows * batteryType) + ((numRows + 1) * thicknessWall);
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lengthBox = (numColumns * batteryType) + ((numColumns + 1) * thicknessWall);
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depthBox = heightCompartment + thicknessWall;
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difference() {
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cube([lengthBox, widthBox, depthBox]);
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for (c = [ 1 : numColumns ])
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for (r = [ 1 : numRows ])
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let (
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startColumn = ((c * thicknessWall) + ((c - 1) * batteryType)),
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startRow = ((r * thicknessWall) + ((r - 1) * batteryType))
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)
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{
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translate([startColumn, startRow, thicknessWall])
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cube([batteryType, batteryType, heightCompartment + 1]);
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Simply, it draws a box and cuts out the holes. (The first cube() draws the main
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their quantity and location (via translate()) is iterated.
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[3]About [4]Categories [5]Archive [6] RSS feed icon for RSS
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Home is where my stuff is
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📅 Dec 29, 2025 🏷️ [7]Philosophy
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When I was in my 20s, decluttering was easy. I didn’t have a lot of stuff. I
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came to the US with a single suitcase, and I mostly kept my stuff contained to
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that suitcase for years. It was nice - every time I’d move when renting rooms
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(which was often), I’d go through all my stuff, put it back in the suitcase,
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and be back on the move.
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My mom lived through the dissolution of the Soviet Union, which instilled a
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scarcity mindset - something I naturally inherited. You don’t own too many
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things, you take care of what you own, you don’t throw stuff away. Stuff was
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hard to come by, so you respected it.
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The irony is that this mindset both prevents accumulation and makes
|
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decluttering harder. You don’t buy frivolously, but you also don’t discard
|
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easily. Every object earned its place.
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I slowly started accumulating stuff. First, it was the computer. My love of
|
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both tech and games is no secret, so I upgraded from a tiny netbook into a
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full-blown gaming PC. It wasn’t anything to write home about, but it was big
|
||||
enough that it would no longer fit in my suitcase. There was a monitor too, so
|
||||
two things that I had to have. It was the first time I needed help moving - and
|
||||
my last landlord was nice enough to help - a suitcase, a PC tower, and a
|
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monitor.
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I still didn’t have too much stuff, and a dedicated PC really was a great
|
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investment for a gaming enthusiast like me. I got a bicycle too, but that was
|
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really a transportation method, and while it was yet another thing - it made me
|
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healthier and opened up the city around me.
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Clutter escalated once I rented an entire place to myself. All of a sudden I
|
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needed furniture, moving up from prefurnished rooms. At first I lived in a tiny
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studio which didn’t even have a functional kitchen. A bed, a clothes rack, and
|
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a desk for my computer.
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The studio was cramped and utilitarian, but I remember a specific kind of
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peace. Everything I owned was visible from the bed. No hidden boxes, no “I
|
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should really go through that” guilt. I could see all my stuff. I didn’t
|
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realize at the time that this was a temporary state - not a lifestyle I’d
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chosen, but a constraint I’d graduate out of. Minimalism is easy when the life
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is not yet complicated.
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I won’t bore you with every place I lived in throughout my life, so let’s fast
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forward a decade. My wife, child, and I live in our house in San Diego, and
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have a lot more stuff now. Naturally, all the furniture, clothes for three,
|
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kitchen stuff (I love to cook), so many different things. There’s all the home
|
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improvement stuff - hey, gotta keep the paints, the brushes, the hammers and
|
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the drills. Need all of that to take care of the house we own. I have many more
|
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interests these days too - from miniature painting to, as of recently, [8]3D
|
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printing. All of the hobbies take up valuable space.
|
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I had a director, Luke, who was complaining about business travel - and me,
|
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being a young tech professional, could not relate. He would say “Home is where
|
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my stuff is. I like my stuff.” And now that I have more stuff - ugh, I get it.
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I go through annual decluttering, Konmari exercises (“does this bring me joy?
|
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”). But it’s hard, because buying stuff is really easy. A few clicks and
|
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tomorrow (or sometimes even today) there’s a box on your porch. Look, just last
|
||||
week I talked about [9]a phone keyboard I bought. The friction is gone. The
|
||||
decision to acquire takes seconds; the decision to discard takes emotional
|
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labor.
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|
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Here’s what I’ve realized: every object I own is a fossil. A little sediment
|
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left by a past version of myself.
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The gaming PC wasn’t clutter - it was proof that I’d made it, that I could
|
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afford something nice for once, that I wasn’t just surviving anymore. The drill
|
||||
isn’t clutter - it’s homeowner-me, a version of myself that
|
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20-something-year-old me with his suitcase couldn’t have imagined. The 3D
|
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printer is current-me’s curiosity, an exploration of a hobby. The miniature
|
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paints are the version of me that finally has time for hobbies just for the
|
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sake of having hobbies.
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This is why decluttering is so hard. It’s not really about tidiness. It’s about
|
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deciding which past selves get to stay.
|
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|
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That drawer with random cables? That’s “I might need this someday” me - the
|
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Soviet scarcity mindset my mom handed down. The programming books I’ll never
|
||||
open again? That’s a young programmer me from a decade ago. The fancy kitchen
|
||||
gadgets I used twice? That’s “I’m going to become someone who makes pasta from
|
||||
scratch” me. Aspirational me. He didn’t pan out, but he tried.
|
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|
||||
Some of these versions of myself are still relevant. Some aren’t. The hard part
|
||||
isn’t identifying which is which - it’s accepting that letting go of the object
|
||||
means letting go of that version of me. Admitting that I’m not that person
|
||||
anymore. Or that I never became the person I bought that thing for.
|
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|
||||
I don’t think the goal is to minimize anymore. I’ve read the minimalism blogs,
|
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I’ve seen the photos of people with one bag and a laptop living their best life
|
||||
in Lisbon. Good for them, I lived that life before - hell, [10]I lived out of
|
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my car for a year. But I have a partner, a kid, a house, and more varied
|
||||
interests. All of which come with stuff.
|
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|
||||
I want to be intentional about which identities I’m holding onto and why. Some
|
||||
sediment is just dirt - clear it out, make space, breathe easier. But some
|
||||
sediment is bedrock (I’m not a geologist, I don’t know rocks). The one suitcase
|
||||
life isn’t coming back, and that’s okay. I’m in a different stage of my life: I
|
||||
look back at my “simple life” with longing, but I enjoy my life today even more
|
||||
- or maybe just differently. I certainly enjoy it in the way important to me
|
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today.
|
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|
||||
So now when I declutter, I try to ask a different question. Not “does this
|
||||
bring me joy?” but “which version of me needed this, and do I still want to
|
||||
carry him forward?” Sometimes the answer is yes. The drill stays. The 3D
|
||||
printer stays. The gaming PC - upgraded many times now - stays. And sometimes
|
||||
the answer is: that guy did his best, but I’m someone else now. Thanks for
|
||||
getting me here. Into the donate pile you go.
|
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|
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It doesn’t make decluttering easy. But it helps me make peace with the mess.
|
||||
The suitcase me is not coming back, and that’s probably for the best - he
|
||||
didn’t really have much of a life yet. I’ve got more stuff now. I’ve got more
|
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me now. I’ll figure out what stays.
|
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|
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It’s been 10 years since I first wrote about [11]my experience with minimalism.
|
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Reading through it now - many of the story beats are similar, but the
|
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perspective changed. Funny how that works…
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December 2025
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Published December 31, 2025
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3 minutes read
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December is the slowest, fastest, and shortest month of the year. Everything
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has to happen this month. But I survived!
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From the blog since my last recently post:
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• [13]Do something about it
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• [14]2025 Year in review
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🍀 Life
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|
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Holidays, dinners, family gatherings, visits, dinners, sickness. You name it.
|
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This month, we had it all!
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|
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Christmas was really chill this year at my SO’s family. Fantastic food,
|
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excellent company, and our daughter got to open a bunch of gifts.
|
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|
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For New Year Eve today, we’re eating dinner with friends of ours that has a
|
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daughter the same age as ours. We’ll head home before the fireworks start and
|
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just take in the new year by watching a movie and doing a no-stress
|
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celebration.
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🎬 Entertainment
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|
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From my [15]logs.
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|
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Movies
|
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|
||||
• Idiocracy (2006) – I remembered this movie being better…
|
||||
• General Magic (2019) – Incredible story. I had never heard about this
|
||||
General Magic company before watching this doc. And like the doc clearly
|
||||
lays out, they were ahead of their time with their “smartphone”, but they
|
||||
absolutely paved the way for Apple, and others.
|
||||
• Rain Man (1988) – I believe Tom Cruise is like this in real life, he’s not
|
||||
actually acting 😂
|
||||
• Sick of Myself (2022) – WTF. The director/writer must know someone like
|
||||
this. And it’s sick that people actually will go to these lengths just for
|
||||
attention. And I see a clear similarity between The Substance and this
|
||||
movie.
|
||||
• Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) – It has touching moments, a bunch of weird
|
||||
dialog and even cringe dialog. The action was cool, but what threw me off
|
||||
from the whole movie and annoyed me from start to end was that some of the
|
||||
movie is 24 FPS and some of it is 48 (felt higher). So whenever the movie
|
||||
went from 48 to 24 FPS the movie felt like a videogame and felt like it was
|
||||
lagging.
|
||||
• Marty Supreme (2025) – This movie had everything: an obnoxious protagonist,
|
||||
obnoxious supporting characters, likable story, fucked up events, awesome
|
||||
setting (1950s). This movie kept me entertained from start to finish.
|
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|
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TV
|
||||
|
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Still watching Pluribus S1, we also started watching Fallout S2.
|
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|
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Games
|
||||
|
||||
Still playing a lot of ARC Raiders. I feel like a kid when I get to play it.
|
||||
The game is so easy to just pick up, and if I end up losing, it’s not the end
|
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of the world. I just kept the loot safe the other guy 😂
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🌐 Links
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• [16]Keep the Robots Out of the Gym – I wanna do the work myself.
|
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• [17]Maybe the Default Settings Are Too High – Slow and steady wins the
|
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race.
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• [18]Getting started with Playdate on Ubuntu – I’m going to try this, I want
|
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to learn Lua and game dev!
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• [19]OpenSCAD Is Kinda Neat – I need to look into OpenSCAD! This looks
|
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really cool.
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• [20]I Wish People Were More Public – I agree. We can learn from each other
|
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and be inspired. Needless to say that we don’t need to be public through
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social media, but do whatever floats your boat :)
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• [21]Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life – Excellent post about not gaining or
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losing weight!
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• [22]How to be exceptional at anything – Simple (not easy) and effective
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habits to live by!
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• [23]You Are Dating an Ecosystem – I guess this is true for a lot of people.
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I feel like this isn’t true for me at least.
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• [24]Cassette Futurism – I love cassette futurism, it’s like synthwave but
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visual art.
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• [25]All it takes is for one to work out – This.
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• [26]The Creator’s Oath – “I reject the siren call of market trends, praise,
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or pressure.”
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• [27]Programming peaked – “Everything was better before”. Jokes aside, this
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makes a good point!
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• [28]A static page generator for repos – This is beautiful!
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• [29]#recently
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634 words
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[30]Reply via email
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Last deploy: 2026-01-05
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• [33]Stats
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• [34]Privacy
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• [35]Connect
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• [36]Subscribe
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[1] https://timharek.no/blog/2025-december-recently/#main
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[2] https://timharek.no/
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[3] https://timharek.no/blog/
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[4] https://timharek.no/about/
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[5] https://timharek.no/more/
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[6] https://timharek.no/
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[7] https://timharek.no/blog/
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[8] https://timharek.no/blog/2025-december-recently/
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[9] https://timharek.no/
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[10] https://timharek.no/blog/2025-december-recently/ZgotmplZ
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[11] mailto:tim@harek.no
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[12] https://timharek.no/public-key.asc
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[13] https://timharek.no/blog/2025-12-07-do-something-about-it
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[14] https://timharek.no/blog/2025-12-31-2025-year-in-review
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[15] https://timharek.no/logs
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[16] https://danielmiessler.com/blog/keep-the-robots-out-of-the-gym
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[17] https://www.raptitude.com/2025/12/maybe-the-default-settings-are-too-high/
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[18] https://sethmlarson.dev/getting-started-with-playdate-on-ubuntu
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[19] https://nuxx.net/blog/2025/12/20/openscad-is-kinda-neat/
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[20] https://borretti.me/article/i-wish-people-were-more-public
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[21] https://www.joanwestenberg.com/thin-desires-are-eating-your-life/
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[22] https://abdulhamidhassan.com/post/802459222214410240/how-to-be-exceptional-at-anything
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[23] https://www.razor.blog/2025/12/you-will-never-be-in-two-person.html?m=1
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[24] https://martin-fieber.de/blog/cassette-futurism/
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[25] https://alearningaday.blog/2025/11/28/all-it-takes-is-for-one-to-work-out-2/
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[26] https://andreasflakstad.no/posts/creatorsoath/
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[27] https://functional.computer/blog/programming-peaked
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[28] https://github.com/antonmedv/gitmal?tab=readme-ov-file
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[29] https://timharek.no/tags/recently/
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[30] mailto:tim@harek.no?subject=RE:%20December%202025
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[31] https://timharek.no/blog/do-something-about-it/
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[32] https://timharek.no/blog/2025-year-in-review/
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[33] https://timharek.no/stats/
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[34] https://timharek.no/privacy/
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[35] https://timharek.no/connect/
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[36] https://timharek.no/subscribe/
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