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Some Entries from My Personal Journal
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[10]Jeremy Friesen wrote [11]< [12]this post [13]> on 2025-01-16 :: Tags: [14]<
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[15]personal [16]> · [17]< [18]poetry [19]>
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Summary: Here I draw two entries from my #journal; annotating some thoughts as
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well as how I’ve expanded my #writing process over the last two months. There’s
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a #poem in here as well.
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On Tuesday the 12th of November, 2024, I started what I hoped to be a new
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habit. That is writing a personal daily journal. Over the weeks, I expanded my
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aspirations to include a daily check list of activities I wanted to do.
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I’ve also used these journals to spin-off blog posts; such as this one. In
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other words, my daily journal is growing a virtuous cycle in my creative
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process.
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How It Got Going
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These are the notes for November 19th, one week after starting my electronic
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journal endeavor.
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2024-11-19 Tuesday
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This used to be a bulleted list, but I went back and converted lists to terse
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paragraphs. As future entries attest, going from list to paragraph was a good
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move; I’m spending just a bit more time synthesizing the “list” item.Today I:
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Wrote [20]“Spear” by Nicola Griffith.
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Finished reading bell hooks all about love by bell hooks.
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I was able to get quite a bit of work done; and have some tasks lined up for
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tomorrow.
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Downloaded [21]The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide.
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I encourage everyone to watch A Small Light; the story of Miep and Jan Geis and
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their efforts to hide Anne Frank and several other Jews. We started watching
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it, knowing the heartbreak and hurt. But there are reminders that each little
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act of life affirmation is a positive and worthy act.
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Watched episode 2 of A Small Light.
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Some “works” I will add to my Bibliography; others I won’t. A Small Light is in
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my bibliography and thus uses CITE tag, whereas “Interior Chinatown” is not and
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does not.
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We watched the first episode of “Interior Chinatown”.
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Practiced testing a radio frequency detector; this one works on vibrate or
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making noise.
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Tonight I plan to continue reading The Once and Future King by T.H. White.
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How It’s Going
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The section below is yesterday’s entry. The margin notes are my reflections for
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today.
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2025-01-15 Wednesday
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I include a date link as a matter of practice. This is a custom [22]Org-Mode
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[23]📖 link that I have used for a year and a half. It serves two purposes:
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generate an HTML time element and to provide backlink-ing. I think I could move
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towards the native Org-Mode time element; but for now this is what I have.
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Today:
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• [24][*] Read one book chapter
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• [25][*] Read one poem
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• [26][*] Read one essay
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• [27][*] Tend my daily feed
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• [28][*] Write one response to a feed item
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The dogs woke me up around 4am, and I went outside. The moon, close to full,
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shown through clear skies. Setting a light the bitter cold snow, which twinkled
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as though themselves stars on a white sky.
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Deep indigo shroud
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Pierced and gouged
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Light reflected spills
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Upon white fields
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Twinkling a promise
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Of the morrow rise
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Often my first entries will be related to what I’ve read. However, the above
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poem needed to be written. Capturing at least a bit of that memory.
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I read [29]Don’t Use Session (Signal Fork); and this stinks of someone creating
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a platform that eases well-funded actors attempting to crack encryption.
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In reading [30]Book Review: Rules for Radicals- A Pragmatic Primer for
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Realistic Radicals by Saul Alinsky, I added Rules for Radicals by Saul D.
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Alinksy to my shopping list. The salient point, of the review, is the book
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helps equip change agents by asking “What is your theory of change?”
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Reading [31]The Multiplier Effect of Collective Curiosity leads with an ancient
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practice of walking and wondering together. I’ve done this in past meetings and
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can say it was some of the most transformative conversations I’ve had. Rarely
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is there “lone genius” instead this is an effort of collaboration and
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conversation. Each building upon what we share.
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In [32]Lit Hub Daily: January 15, 2025 I learned about [33]Olga Tokarczuk’s New
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Rules for Realism | The Nation which reviews The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk;
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which I added to my shopping list. Why? Olga’s anti-national (e.g. how do we
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move away from tribalism); and to move forward we’re going to look at how to
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reduce our us vs. them mindsets.
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Read [34]Why am I not taking pictures?, I responded/reflected and wrote [35]Re:
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Why am I not playing games?. This makes two responses to Jack in as many days.
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With having finished my RSS [36]📖 feed, I turn to my books of poetry. I grabbed
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one and opened to somewhere in the middle. I tend to reflect on them a bit
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more, but this time I didn’t. I suppose I’ll need to re-read it.
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I read the poem A Thousand Dawns from The Half-Life of Angels by Mark Nepo.
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Looking to the Fediverse, there’s statements by the Proton’s CEO and then
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official Mastodon account that are alarming. Especially given that their threat
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model includes state actors.
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Finding out that Proton’s CEO is teetering on MAGA-boosting is gross. So I
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started exploring other options. A cursory review is as follows:
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Email
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Tuta (see [37]https://tuta.com/)
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VPN
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Favor Mullvad VPN (see [38]https://mullvad.net/en)
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Calendar
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Tuta (see [39]https://tuta.com/)
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Password Manager
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Bitwarden
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Cloud Storage
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Run Sync-Thing with multiple devices. I am interested in Synchronization
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and thus back-up. This looks to be a reasonable pathway. I’ll need to
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review and establish a Runbook.
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I had heard of SyncThing but didn’t use it. In part because how it was
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originally used was conflated with a gaslighting mansplaining experience. But
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don’t throw the technology used out with the people using it. Now the people
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developing it?
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I started experimenting with syncthing; easy enough to use. Can replace my
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Cloud Drive (if I get one more device in the loop). However, I must consider
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how to make this available for my family. I’m using [40]Syncthing-Fork on my
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Android (as found on [41]Community Contributions — Syncthing documentation) and
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brew install syncthing on my Mac. It’s just a bit much for non-programmers; but
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I think there’s some documentation to help.
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The notes are not chronological; I read the following essay before really
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diving into [42]SyncThing [43]📖 . While writing this post, I opted to create a
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glossary entry for SyncThing ; but did not amend my journal.
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Before dinner, I read Finance is Just Another Word for Other People’s Debt from
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The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World… by David Graeber.
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Both nationally and internationally, we are ruled by a ruling class whose
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profits are based primarily on complex forms of rent extraction, backed by
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coercive of force.―David Graeber, The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World…
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I’m not prepared to take these steps, but understanding what folks are
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considering is a helpful exercise. Reminding me a bit of the nano swarms from
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The Diamond Age by Neil Stephenson.
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I chuckled as I learned about [44]ZADZMO code, namely Nepenthes:
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This is a tarpit intended to catch web crawlers. Specifically, it’s
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targeting crawlers that scrape data for Large Language Models (LLMs [45]📖)
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□ but really, like the plants it is named after, it’ll eat just about
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anything that finds it’s way inside.
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I’m eager for LLM model collapse, as this hype cycle is one that is hellbent on
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consuming all creative output. But, I think they are fully on the “sunk cost”
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fallacy trajectory.
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I drifted off to sleep listening to some Iain M. Banks.
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I read the fourth chapter of Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks.
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Conclusion
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I had an idea of what I wanted to do. But kept that idea light weight. And
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started building the habit; expanding upon it. This week I started adapting the
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journal at work; writing to a different file of course.
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Building from the same habit, has helped in my day to day work. Keeping on top
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of blockers as well as improving the odds of tracking down past one off work.
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I’m thinking how I can build from this habit to incorporate a todo list.
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I’ve started many todo lists, but nothing has quite worked. In that I lose
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momentum using them. Paper lists are the best, and one would think I could
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simply “make a file on my computer” for these todo items.
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But it doesn’t quite work. So I’m going to do what’s working and reflect on how
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I can build upon that for a todo list.
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[46]Reply by Email
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Related Posts
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• [47]Go Down Swinging?
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• [48]Together We Could
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• [49]The Fading of Winter
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• [50]On Prescription and Description
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• [51]Clutching Wood and Graphite
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[30] https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/01/book-review-rules-for-radicals-a-pragmatic-primer-for-realistic-radicals-by-saul-alinsky/
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[31] https://nesslabs.com/collective-curiosity?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=collective-curiosity
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[32] https://lithub.com/lit-hub-daily-january-15-2025/
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[33] https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/olga-tokarczuk-empusium-realism/
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[38] https://mullvad.net/en
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