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---
title: "Dispatch #24 (February 2025)"
date: 2025-02-02T01:17:06-05:00
draft: false
tags:
- dispatch
references:
- title: "P&B: Steven Garrity – Manu"
  url: https://manuelmoreale.com/pb-steven-garrity
  date: 2025-02-02T06:30:32Z
  file: manuelmoreale-com-dn0jwr.txt
- title: "The Social Media Sea Change  - by Anne Helen Petersen"
  url: https://annehelen.substack.com/p/the-social-media-sea-change
  date: 2025-02-03T05:11:34Z
  file: annehelen-substack-com-5yhv8a.txt
- title: "Bad shape"
  url: https://www.wrecka.ge/bad-shape/
  date: 2025-02-03T05:11:52Z
  file: www-wrecka-ge-rdi1xr.txt
- title: "What Is To Be Done? | CJ The X"
  url: https://cjthex.com/what-is-to-be-done/
  date: 2025-02-03T05:11:55Z
  file: cjthex-com-xshqsk.txt
- title: "Farewell, again... | Alexander Zeitler"
  url: https://alexanderzeitler.com/articles/farewell-again/
  date: 2025-02-05T04:19:51Z
  file: alexanderzeitler-com-f9z4v6.txt
- title: "Departing the New York Times - by Paul Krugman"
  url: https://contrarian.substack.com/p/departing-the-new-york-times
  date: 2025-02-03T05:11:50Z
  file: contrarian-substack-com-grqlkr.txt
- title: "Westley Winks :: How I journal"
  url: https://wwinks.com/p/how-i-journal/
  date: 2025-02-03T05:12:07Z
  file: wwinks-com-bh1ouy.txt
- title: "Cancellation: a complex mix of accountability, power, justice, anger and societal change"
  url: https://www.coffeeandcomplexity.com/cancellation-a-complex-mix-of-accountability-power-justice-anger-and-societal-change/
  date: 2025-02-03T05:12:11Z
  file: www-coffeeandcomplexity-com-3o83vx.txt
- title: "Offgrid internet-in-a-box project - Part one - Dom Corriveau"
  url: https://blog.ctms.me/posts/2025-01-17-offgrid-internet-in-a-box-kickoff/
  date: 2025-02-03T05:12:25Z
  file: blog-ctms-me-eg0pab.txt
- title: "Sonic Pi - The Live Coding Music Synth for Everyone"
  url: https://sonic-pi.net/
  date: 2025-02-03T05:12:30Z
  file: sonic-pi-net-nczg5a.txt
- title: "I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw | The Guardian"
  url: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/16/i-knew-one-day-id-have-to-watch-powerful-men-burn-the-world-down-i-just-didnt-expect-them-to-be-such-losers
  date: 2025-02-03T05:12:34Z
  file: www-theguardian-com-b9haub.txt
- title: "Some Entries from My Personal Journal // Take on Rules"
  url: https://takeonrules.com/2025/01/16/some-entries-from-my-personal-journal/
  date: 2025-02-03T05:12:36Z
  file: takeonrules-com-joumfe.txt
- title: "This Glorious Machine"
  url: https://robinrendle.com/stories/this-glorious-machine/
  date: 2025-02-03T05:12:52Z
  file: robinrendle-com-aa25aa.txt
- title: "My Planner Setup for 2025 – Writing at Large"
  url: https://writingatlarge.com/2025/01/09/my-planner-setup-for-2025/
  date: 2025-02-03T05:13:01Z
  file: writingatlarge-com-ravzp3.txt
- title: "Three Habits Worth Keeping – Writing at Large"
  url: https://writingatlarge.com/2025/01/03/three-habits-worth-keeping/
  date: 2025-02-03T05:13:15Z
  file: writingatlarge-com-zf24yo.txt
---

Some thoughts here...

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* Family
  * Snow days
  * Wagon

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* Hifi
  * Speaker stands
* Journaling
  * [Stalogy Editor's Series 365Days Notebook][1]
* iPad holder
* Digital detox

[1]: https://www.jetpens.com/Stalogy-Editor-s-Series-365Days-Notebook-A5-Lined-Black/pd/43548

### Work

* Tampa trip
* Promotion (VP)
* Drupal
  * AI (good/bad)
  * Outsourcing
  * Reinforces my belief in quality, and not just for its own sake
  * Series of medium challenges

* Book project
  * Hugo
  * CSS
  * Thoughts about making something for the future
  * [People and Blogs ref.][2]

> 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).

[2]: https://manuelmoreale.com/pb-steven-garrity

 ### This Month

* Adventure:
* Project: [crochet fox][3]
* Skill:

[3]: https://thewoobles.com/products/fox-crochet-kit

### Reading & Listening

* Fiction: [_Godkiller_][4], Hannah Kaner
* Non-fiction: [_Title_][5], Author
* Music: [_Dummy_][6], Portishead (had that _Sour Times_ on repeat in my head all month)

[4]: https://durhamcounty.overdrive.com/media/9706350
[5]: https://bookshop.org/
[6]: https://www.turntablelab.com/products/portishead-dummy-180g-vinyl-lp

### Links

* [The Social Media Sea Change - by Anne Helen Petersen][7]

  > I’m not quitting Instagram. I may or may not add email to my phone; maybe I’ll just do it when I’m traveling, and it becomes my de facto computer. I’m not trying to convince you to do what I’ve done, and I’m not suggesting I’m a superior or more disciplined person for doing any of this. All I’m saying is: I think I’ve turned the corner. And I think a lot of you have — or are about to — too.

More on this topic: [Bad shape][8], [What Is To Be Done?][9], [Farewell, again...][10]

* [Departing the New York Times][11]

  > Yet what I felt during my final year at the Times was a push toward blandness, toward avoiding saying anything too directly in a way that might get some people (particularly on the right) riled up. I guess my question is, if those are the ground rules, why even bother having an opinion section?

* [Westley Winks :: How I journal][12]

  > I’ve tried physical notebooks, morning pages, stream-of-thought writing, bullet points, and basically everything else recommended by the journaling gurus. What finally stuck was a framework I learned from Sahil Bloom—the 1-1-1 method. I’ve adapted it for myself such that I write down five points each night (in a perfect world).

* [Cancellation: a complex mix of accountability, power, justice, anger and societal change][13]

  > Driving out people can be emotionally satisfying and create a sense of justice. But is it actually making the world better?

* [Offgrid internet-in-a-box project - Part one - Dom Corriveau][14]

  > For fun, I like to invent scenarios and then build a tech setup for it. One of the builds I think about a lot is having a completely offgrid (and obviously offline) portable internet-in-a-box. This is the first steps in that build, laying out the requirements and choosing the hardware.

* [Sonic Pi - The Live Coding Music Synth for Everyone][15]

  > Experience the sound of code. Sonic Pi is your free code-based music creation and performance tool.

* [I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw | The Guardian][16]

  > Whether I am engaging with the news, or with Musk tweeting constantly like a man with no job or friends, or with Zuckerberg sending out weird videos and appearing on Rogan, I am in pain. Not just because I don’t like what they are doing but because they are so incredibly, painfully cringe.

* [Some Entries from My Personal Journal // Take on Rules][17]

  > On Tuesday the 12th of November, 2024, I started what I hoped to be a new habit. That is writing a personal daily journal. Over the weeks, I expanded my aspirations to include a daily check list of activities I wanted to do. I’ve also used these journals to spin-off blog posts; such as this one. In other words, my daily journal is growing a virtuous cycle in my creative process.

* [This Glorious Machine][18]

  > Riding an e-bike is like discovering a long forgotten secret of the universe or, perhaps, inventing something worthy of a heartfelt “eureka.” Look: zipping through traffic on my first e-bike, blitzing past the stuffy tin cans all around me, I’ve become master of the four winds. Now first place in a triathlon, now a mythical creature that can move at the speed of thought. Upon my trusty electric 6-gear steed I am Hermes, lord of heavenly motion.

* [My Planner Setup for 2025 – Writing at Large][19]

  > It’s the beginning of 2025, so it’s time to go over my full planner setup for both work and home. None of this setup is truly new, as I’ve used much of it during part or all of 2024, but there are a few tweaks and minor adjustments that I’ll highlight. As I use a 13 week year (or a quarter) in my planner, I started Q1 of 2025 on the 29th of December and not the 1st of January.

* [Three Habits Worth Keeping – Writing at Large][20]

  > This is the time of year when people set resolutions, themes, goals, intentions, words of the year, etc. Ambitions are high, intentions are good, but well before March most of these efforts will be abandoned and forgotten. I’ll be writing about my quarterly plan and my 2025 planner later on, but for now here are three habits that worth keeping in 2025 and in general, and a few tips on how to get into them and persist.

[7]: https://annehelen.substack.com/p/the-social-media-sea-change
[8]: https://www.wrecka.ge/bad-shape/
[9]: https://cjthex.com/what-is-to-be-done/
[10]: https://alexanderzeitler.com/articles/farewell-again/
[11]: https://contrarian.substack.com/p/departing-the-new-york-times
[12]: https://wwinks.com/p/how-i-journal/
[13]: https://www.coffeeandcomplexity.com/cancellation-a-complex-mix-of-accountability-power-justice-anger-and-societal-change/
[14]: https://blog.ctms.me/posts/2025-01-17-offgrid-internet-in-a-box-kickoff/
[15]: https://sonic-pi.net/
[16]: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/16/i-knew-one-day-id-have-to-watch-powerful-men-burn-the-world-down-i-just-didnt-expect-them-to-be-such-losers
[17]: https://takeonrules.com/2025/01/16/some-entries-from-my-personal-journal/
[18]: https://robinrendle.com/stories/this-glorious-machine/
[19]: https://writingatlarge.com/2025/01/09/my-planner-setup-for-2025/
[20]: https://writingatlarge.com/2025/01/03/three-habits-worth-keeping/