I’m up at the cabin and have yet to start a new book which means I get to catch up on a lot of my Instagram reading which means I’ll be posting a lot of links to old, usually long form, things I think are worth sharing.

Finished reading: Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann - An incredible piece of investigative journalism. So much important history revealed that I previously knew little about. Excited to see the movie now. 📚

Not gonna lie, I’m far more likely to wear and use that Humane digital assistant thing if it ever comes out of vaporware than I am a Vision Pro.

Give me less, more invisible, technology. Not more. #WWDC2023

I generally use the announcement of the next iteration of Mac OS as the time I finally upgrade to the current one.

Still running Monterey. But I have a couple of clients having enough issues with Ventura that I think I’ll hold off for a while longer.

Been trying to come up with a template for an email I can send out to folks that basically says, “Sorry I’m a poor friend and have not replied to your requests for a get-together or talk-soon but when I get overwhelmed in life I find those the most difficult to do though they are likely what would help the most and it’s something I would like to be better at and work on but my brain often makes that hard, nay seemingly insurmountable, and enters me into a terrible negative feedback loop just thinking about it so I just put my nose to the grindstone of life’s other things and avoid it but do know that the desire is there, right next to the guilt, and I hope to correct this soon.”

A fairly busy day means I won’t be able to engage in Micro.camp at all today. Kinda sad about that. Looking forward to seeing the recordings.

Test

Beatrix has an assignment for Spanish class to demonstrate how to make something from her heritage with an example in Spanish.

This is how she found herself making Krum Kake for homework tonight.

Currently channeling Derek Sivers.

Wondering if anyone here has/had either a Light Phone or a Punkt Phone (or other modern “dumb phone” that does call and text well) and are willing to tell me what you think? Would be for Beatrix, age 15.