We have to put these fights aside and declare a pandemic amnesty. We can leave out the willful purveyors of actual misinformation while forgiving the hard calls that people had no choice but to make with imperfect knowledge.
The clock continues to log its rigid seconds, minutes and hours, utterly unaware of the global crisis that is taking place. It is stable, correct, neutral and absolute. But what makes us wrong and the clock right?
Source - The Tyranny Of Time - NOEMA →
Why am I not able to write? I lack drive. I’m curious why the words have dried up suddenly.
I have been using Matter for the last couple of days. I don’t see the benefit yet, other than a different way of doing the same? Why and when should I use this reader app?
I finished reading Rework by Jason Fried today 📚
I loved the simple, usually apparent suggestions. Most go against the proven and often advised business best practices. I love the bold ideas and the no-nonsense way the suggestions are delivered through simple short chapters. But, I am afraid I will not be able to benefit from most of them. Jason targets folks like him who are in positions of decision-making regarding how their businesses are run. Not many are in that position. So, as much as I would love my organization to follow even a few of Jason’s suggestions, I am afraid I cannot influence that.
That said, though, I will keep the book close so that I refer back to the clarity of thinking that Jason has lived his business career with. I hope it comes in handy someday.
Working on making the now page dynamic. I no longer want to manually update this page – the hassle makes me do this less often.
Google announced it’s going to start rolling out end-to-end encrypted group RCS chats to the Google Messages beta over the next few weeks.
Source: Google Messages is getting end-to-end encrypted RCS group chats →
A pretty important step for non-Apple ecosystem.
After almost a month of chaos, I sit at my desk on an evening with nothing eating up my brain. Nothing too urgent. Or Demanding. I like this sense of calmness, this feeling of being idle. It’s this hollowness, the lack of thoughts, that birth the words in me.
Otherwise, I am busy drowning those thoughts in guilty pleasures. Scrolling meaninglessly. Reading, but not really reading. Binging on YouTube videos. I do that with the hope of feeling relaxed. Instead, all it leaves me is feeling futile.
At a cultural level, we didn’t stop smoking just because the habit was unpleasant or uncool or even because it might kill us. We did so slowly and over time, by forcing social life to suffocate the practice. That process must now begin in earnest for social media.
My family and I watched Strange World yesterday. I don’t remember when I was this unimpressed with a Disney movie. The makers attempted to hit a lot of big ideas but forgot what story they wanted to tell. The world-building is half-baked and foolish. The emotional parts bore you. The climax is dull.
My wife quipped, “Disney doesn’t know how to make a movie with a male protagonist.” After all, when did Disney last make a movie with a strong father-son dynamic? Maybe Nemo?
This comment from Alison Willmore’s review of the movie resonated with me.
So much of Strange World’s audaciousness is front-loaded into its concept, and so little of it comes through in the execution. Its themes linger in the mind longer than any line or emotional beat in part because those elements feel so rote and secondary.