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### Links
* [Why keep writing?][16]
> Good question. I guess a natural follow up question is: Why did you start in the first place? Also a good question.
* [Own Your Web – Issue 12: Finding Your Rhythm][17]
> But then again, what is the point of having a personal site if we don’t put stuff out there from time to time, if we don’t document and share random thoughts, things we learned, and nuggets we found? And even though you definitely don’t have to publish daily to enjoy having a blog, it is only when you post more regularly that many of the advantages of having a personal site really start to emerge.
* [I'm not a cynic, I'm disappointed][18]
> People who point out what needs to be improved are generally disappointed optimists.
* [Why We Can't Have Nice Software][19]
> The problem with software is that it's too powerful. It creates so much wealth so fast that it's virtually impossible to not distribute it.
* [Churn][20]
> The main reason Web Components aren’t going to save you from the JS treadmill, however, is that the JS treadmill is first and foremost a cultural product.
* [Any Technology Indistinguishable From Magic is Hiding Something][21]
> But none of that really matters. We keep waiting for the next iteration of the web, or the internet, but the future is now, baby. We’re living it at this very moment. It snuck through the backdoor when no one was looking.
* [Your Blog Should Have an About Page][22]
> The site stats tell me that my about page at /about is consistently one of the most visited pages on this website. That confirms what everyone already knows: people are very curious, sometimes even nosy.
* [Periodical 17 – Optimization][23]
> Optimizing a home is a years-long process.
[16]: https://www.eddiedale.com/blog/why-keep-writing

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Creativity:
* [Midyear in a mid year][11]
> Writing books, making art, recording music … it’s all a lot easier when you don’t know what you’re doing. Better yet if you don’t know that you don’t know what you’re doing. It’s when you know you don’t know what you’re doing that you’ve got to really get after it.
This resonates with me -- I've learned a lot about making digital music over the last few months, but in some ways I feel like I'm still trying to get back to the level of the [very first thing I did][12].
[11]: https://austinkleon.substack.com/p/midyear-in-a-mid-year
[12]: /journal/dispatch-9-november-2023/#music
* [Cultivating A Space For The Doing][13]
> Engineer for yourself the smallest possible environment, concentrated as densely as possible with only the highest quality inputs; explicitly re-route all potential distraction-avenues back to one’s chosen craft, such that even when you’re momentarily doing something else you cannot escape the focus of your craft.
[13]: https://kylekukshtel.com/francis-bacon-creative-meditation-studio-space
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Parenting:
* [Give yourself what you needed and your kids what they need][14]
> On the influence of the unlived lives of parents.
[14]: https://austinkleon.com/2021/04/01/give-yourself-what-you-needed-and-your-kids-what-they-need/
* [10 Thoughts From the Fourth Trimester][15]
> A newborn is not a baby. Babies are cute and roly-poly and can see and are conscious and are normal and a newborn is not any of these things. It is a bizarre human larva that acts super weird and would still be in the womb if it could be.
[15]: https://waitbutwhy.com/2023/05/baby.html
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[16]: https://collabfund.com/blog/my-month-without-a-smartphone/
* [The Boox Palma is an amazing gadget I didn’t even know I wanted][17]
> It’s a better Kindle and a better iPod, all in one gadget.
Seeing a lot of praise for this thing[^1]; it's tempting but I'm skeptical the solution to my issues with technology and consumerism is another piece of electronics.
[17]: https://www.theverge.com/24184777/boox-palma-e-ink-smartphone-reader
AI:
* [I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again][18]
> I shall answer this as politically as I can ... there are those that have drunk the kool-aid. There are those that have not. And then there are those that are trying to mix up as much kool-aid as possible. I shall let you decide who sits in which basket.
[18]: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/
* [Dear AI companies, please scrape this website][19]
> Really, take my work! Go nuts! Make your AI think more like me. Make your AI sound more like me. Make your AI agree with my view of the world more often.
[19]: https://justin.searls.co/posts/dear-ai-companies-please-scrape-this-website/

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* [The moral bankruptcy of Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz][13]
> Two of Silicon Valley’s famous venture capitalists make the case for backing Trump: that their ability to make money is the only value that matters.
* [Microfeatures I Love in Blogs and Personal Websites][14]
> In this time, I’ve been on the lookout for ways to improve the site, and I’ve seen quite a few little things that are nice to use, but relatively easy to implement. They don’t really make or break a website; the absence of such features might be noticed, but will not cause any disruption for the reader. On the other hand, their presence serves as a QoL enhancement.

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### Links
* [Beyond survival mode][8]
> There are moments with children, even in a boring, safe, suburban existence like mine, where you just feel like you’re in Survival Mode. And every once in a while it lifts and you feel like you’ve moved beyond just surviving, and you feel like you’re actually living. The children eat their food. You all tell stories and laugh. Books after tubs with no whining. You’re a quartet, and you’re all performing the same music.
* [The Art of Taking It Slow][9]
> Contemporary cycling is all about spandex and personal bests. The bicycle designer Grant Petersen has amassed an ardent following by urging people to get comfortable bikes, and go easy.
* [Wealth = Have ÷ Need][10]
> Making money depends on other people, so it’s harder. It’s not entirely under your control. It’s an outer game. Reducing what you need is easier. It’s entirely under your control. It’s an inner game.
* [Attention, Spoiled Software Engineers: Take a Lesson from Google’s Programming Language][11]
> Perhaps this is why I see the ethos behind the programming language Go as both a rebuke and a potential corrective to my generation of strivers. Its creators hail from an era when programmers had smaller egos and fewer commercial ambitions, and it is, for my money, the premier general-purpose language of the new millennium -- not the best at any one thing, but nearly the best at nearly everything. A model for our flashy times.
* [To Learn to Live in a Mundane Universe][12]
> You have to imagine a life you can live with, where you are, when you are. If you don’t, you’ll never be satisfied. Neither AI nor anything else is coming to save you from the things you don’t like about being a person. The better life you absolutely can build isn’t going to be brought to you by ChatGPT but by your own steady uphill clawing and through careful management of your own expectations. You live here. This is it. That’s what I would tell to everyone out there: this is it. This is it. This is it. You’re never going to hang out with Mr. Data on the Holodeck. I know that, for a lot of people, mundane reality is everything they want to escape. But it could be so much worse.
* [Coming home][13]
> There was a time when I felt some resonance between spending time in the social stream and doing my own work. As if the movement of the water imparted some energy or power I could make use of, and then return. But it’s been a long time since I’ve felt that way.
* [A good assistant to your future self][14]
> Yes, a diary is a good spaceship for time travel: for meditating on the present, flinging ourselves into the future, and visiting ourselves in the past.
* [Crypto's missing plateau of productivity][15]
> I think that even the most overhyped technology usually delivers some benefit to the world. And often succeeds quietly, long after the hype has died. Recent examples include 3D printing, which has found massive success in prototyping, medical applications - a friend had a filling 3D-printed right in his doctor’s office - and niche consumer items. Etsy is awash with 3D printed lamps, some even that I own. Or drones, which are now used all the time in news coverage, on job sites, and by people filming themselves hiking.
[8]: https://austinkleon.com/2019/01/18/beyond-survival-mode/

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> I will leave you with a suggested question to ask other blog writers: What will happen to your blog after you’re gone? I ask because I don’t have a good answer for this. I don’t think anything I’ve written is critical for future generations, but I’d also like my eventual great-grand-kids to be able to read a bit about how their old great-grand-dad saw the world (if they care to).
-- [Steven Garrity][9]
[9]: https://manuelmoreale.com/pb-steven-garrity
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