Immature is a word the boring people use to describe fun people.
Will Ferrell
Category: Misc
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Will Ferrell on boring people
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Ted Nelson on the future
I have seen the future– and it irks.
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I miss fun Twitter
An absolute classic. Makes me laugh every time. People are funny.
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Now Playing: David Byrne, Who Is the Sky?
He keeps going and going. Fun, interesting song writing here.
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No rules here
I have a rule book for blogging, honest, even though I seldom refer to it. I’ve decided to throw it away when it comes to this blog. All bets are off, people!
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I’m not sure I want to maintain a complex Emacs config
I love my (sort of) home grown Emacs config, but maintaining it can be exhausting.
Yesterday, I complained about it a little in A blog post written with NeoVim. There’s so much going on. I’ve spent years making tweaks both small and large. This should be a good thing, but I’m not feeling great about it. It feels fragile. It is fragile.
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When design drives behavior
Jason Fried:
But the most interesting designs to me are when design changes your behavior. Even the smallest details can change how someone interacts with something.
Jason Fried, When design drives behaviorClever, but I might prefer when the UI doesn’t lie to me.
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I haven’t deleted this yet for some reason
Whenever I stop by here and look at the blog I think, “Well that’s kind of nice, actually.” Then I consider moving my blogging here (again). But also, I know me and it never sticks. And yet, it’s still here.
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Westenberg: Why Cynicism is Just Moral Cowardice
The appeal of cynicism is that it makes you sound smart without asking for a whole lot of independent thought. It’s easier to tear down than build up, to assume the worst than to evaluate evidence, to sneer than to engage, to smirk rather than smile.
Source: Joan Westenberg, Why Cynicism is Just Moral CowardiceWe could use less of it.
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Where to Start in Reading David Foster Wallace – Ted Gioia
That’s not entirely fair. Wallace’s most famous book, Infinite Jest—1,079 pages and weighing 3.15 pounds (in the hardcover first edition)—is challenging. But Wallace wrote many other things, and some of them are quite accessible.
Source: Ted Gioia, Where to Start in Reading David Foster WallaceI hope that reading and talking about DFW makes a comeback. For a while there, Book Social Media was (rightfully) aligned against sound-smart lit-bros who wouldn’t shut up about Infinite Jest. I may have been one of them, because I loved (and still love) that book, so shut up.
But definitely read This is Water, even if it’s cliche by now. and A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again is a ton of fun. Oh, and his piece about Federer is amazing, even if some of it might be exaggerated. Who cares?