My daughter just shushed me because I talked to her while she was engrossed in her adventure novel. Now even I want to read the book.
In the past 30 years, the British economy chose finance over industry, Britain’s government chose austerity over investment, and British voters chose a closed and poorer economy over an open and richer one.
Source: How the U.K. Became One of the Poorest Countries in Western Europe - The Atlantic →
I have always built web apps with Node.js and Express for all my side projects till now. However, I wonder if that duo is still the best choice for a new one that I am working on. What are the other options? I am ok to learn. Rather, I would love to learn – pick up something faster that’s also easy to maintain. Node.js projects are clearly neither. Time to explore.
The games the shadows play.
Can I read any big publication anymore? Everything’s behind pay wall - and I can’t subscribe to all.
I don’t think Twitter users will mass exit the platform. Do people on Twitter care who heads the company? The exits that happen today won’t be of the users. And that has already begun.
Loved this line from The Obstacle is the Way by Holiday Ryan 📚
Stop looking for angels and start looking for angles.
This in context of persisting with your efforts when faced with failures.
My aversion for the concept of timezone is not hidden - I probably have an yearly post begrudgingly accepting the fallout of this weird phenomenon.
What makes it worse though is how each region is allowed to select their own timezones. This makes the situation messier than anything to do with time should be. Just search YouTube for weird timezones. There are ample examples of how we have screwed this up.
I read about another such weird little timezone from Australia - given the size and nature of the region involved, this has to be amongst the craziest.
Life in a Portrait Mode
I love taking portrait shots of my daughter. Her expressions are the focus, and everything blurs away in the background. Anyway, what matters to me is my daughter’s smile or the lack of any. Each expression more priceless.
I hope to live my life in the same manner, in portrait mode. Put things that matter to me in focus. Blur the sidelines into the background. It might be messy around me. It always is. But to let it impact my perspective towards the moment or not is my choice.
So a friendly reminder for myself - put what matters in focus. Make the ugliness that surrounds me the blurred background. It may only heighten the charm of the moment.
And as with photography, not all perspectives can be portraits. But some certainly should.
I loved the recent article from Dan Lewis about the history of the word “curfew” and how it took the meaning that it has today. It’s fascinating how words change meaning over time as the world changes. This story is no different.