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title: "Dispatch #18 (August 2024)"
date: 2024-08-07T15:35:45-04:00
draft: false
tags:
- dispatch
references:
- title: "Recently - macwright.com"
  url: https://macwright.com/2024/08/01/recently
  date: 2024-08-09T03:43:36Z
  file: macwright-com-1msqdm.txt
- title: "The World Beyond Your Head - macwright.com"
  url: https://macwright.com/2024/07/07/world-beyond-your-head
  date: 2024-08-09T03:43:55Z
  file: macwright-com-59hl5f.txt
---

Some thoughts here...

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* "Who has write access to your worldview?"
* Roof replacement (selecting a vendor)
* Balance: family, work, health, creativity
	* (adulting, sleep)
* Photo shoot
* Racefest
* Durham Library
* Amateur woodworking

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This month:

* Adventure: Rehoboth Beach with my family. We've done this trip for the last four years, and every year the number of children in attendance has increased by one, a trend that simply cannot continue.
* Project: [This is one of my favorite albums][1], and here's how they describe the creation process: "write and record a collection of drum-free samples, then flip them into an albums' worth of beats." I'd like to produce a track in this style this month.
* Skill: Drum programming

[1]: https://birocratic.bandcamp.com/album/ninety-nine

Reading:

* Fiction: [_Moonbound_][2], Robin Sloan -- quite a departure from _Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore_ but I'm digging it so far; I like an absurd story told in a straightforward way
* Non-fiction: [_The World Beyond Your Head_][3], Matthew B. Crawford -- I've read another book by this author, _Shop Class as Soulcraft_, and Tom MacWright spoke highly of this one in his [recent update][4] and [review][5]

[2]: https://bookshop.org/p/books/wizard-s-design-robin-sloan/20374751
[3]: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-world-beyond-your-head-on-becoming-an-individual-in-an-age-of-distraction-matthew-b-crawford/8484056?ean=9780374535919
[4]: https://macwright.com/2024/08/01/recently
[5]: https://macwright.com/2024/07/07/world-beyond-your-head

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