What a year, what a year! This was a pretty varied one for me, with some high highs and some lowwww lows.
I'm still on my non-fiction reading kick, but my attention has been seeping outwards in different directions. I've been…
I've just finished Jenny Odell's latest book "[Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/61358639)," which is chock-full of mediations and ways to rethink the (western) modernized relationship to time. Highly recommend!
Part of this book reviews the rise of [Scientific…
Today I went digging back in my portfolio and tried to pin down when I switched over to using UI frameworks, instead of rolling my own components. Misty-eyed, I rolled around the thought "there's always a last time a parent…
I read [an article in Nature](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00185-z) today about the difficulties of establishing a lunar standard time. Riveting! There are a few pieces of this that I think are interesting to consider:
### Lunar Time Zones
The first question would be to decide…
The city's too crowded, no one goes there anymore.
In the midst of our astronomical rent prices across all major cities, we have fewer and fewer creative communities. Cheap rent is a prerequisite for artists, musicians, and other creative folks to…
...and other questions I ask myself in trying to get this blog Up And Running.
I studied mathematics in college, which followed a rigorous high school math education, and even participation in math competitions (solo and group!) To me, math describes…
I daresay... I got more fun this year?? Or at least I didn't spend 100% of my time reading climate books.
OTOH, I'm turning into a History Dad. Oh, you read a nice novel that you'd like to share? Sorry friend,
Wow, what a year!
In terms of general reading themes, I started with a heavy climate-focus at the beginning of the year. Climate change is a [hyperobject](https://www.hcn.org/issues/47.1/introducing-the-idea-of-hyperobjects), and it’s useful to approach it from varying disciplines and rhetorical techniques. Midway through…
This year was hard for me, and also everyone else I know. Sometimes I used reading for escapism, and other times I wanted to learn more about basically… why are things so bad right now. Not the most fun, but…
🤠 yeehaw
Circa January 2017 I decided to "get back into reading," and for some reason was unable to stick with anything but dystopian sci-fi novels. 2018 was largely the same (although seriously hmu if you want sci-fi recs). In 2019,