starting to share quarterly updates on projects, writing, music, reads, and life via email; first edition now out. > I've shifted from "I should take less space" to "I'd like to connect regularly with people who want more".

introducing Occasion

I've shifted from "I should take less space" to "I'd like to connect regularly with people who want more".

please send me avocados

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i started a /now page, but i think it might be for myself more than other people, as i like the cadence of documenting where i'm at now and then. still, be welcome to know if you're curious 👋🏼

Now

the hard thing about starting a habit is often unclarity on how to integrate, more so than the action itself.

How do you make sense of changing someone's life through a random encounter?

Strolling

Nathan Hewitt - Strolling

Your food can bring people together.

Strolling

Nathan Hewitt - Strolling

I feel powerful, as if I can tackle anything. I can get answers by simply reading. I can just look at the code.

don't fear the docs

I feel powerful, as if I can tackle anything. I can get answers by simply reading. I can just look at the code.

"having a platform profile is like living in a single-room apartment, whereas having your own site is a castle with unlimited rooms."

scrolling all my music on one page. how does it feel?

Vibrations

i learn from everyone, but the teacher is myself

grouping these together: - military's "never give a command that won't be obeyed" - teacher anti-pattern of "instructions that the student can't follow" - basic-minded "using a foreign language to feel superior with someone who doesn't know it" related to communication fails creating a false sense of authority and effectiveness. somehow everyone loses, but the speaker doesn't know.

i continue to be blown away by local community centers all over the world and how they offer so much that isn't legible or relevant to technological systems – the underrated potential of not needing platforms to care for or live with your neighbours.

a kenyan woman got out of her rickshaw as i walked past, looked at me and spoke in english, "hi jesus!"

like a paywall requires money to access, a nerdwall requires technical knowhow

psa to please help your friends setup tech alternatives as a social event: switch together so everyone transitions successfully with known contacts on the new platform. lone profiles leave momentum on the table.

from observing what you see to observing how you watch

when heading somewhere people ask "have everything you'll need?" and as a backpacker i respond "this is everything i have".

whichever side you take, someone profits from the merch

when does it make sense to focus on not liking someone's approach versus accepting and appreciating diverse ways?

attachment to a specific strategy is not strategic