“Life updates: falling into fall, new job etc.”
Substrate
Fly Me to the Moonmoon
"Moonmoon is an example of the linguistic process of reduplication, which is often deployed in English to make things more cute and whimsical. In the pure form of reduplication, you get words like bonbon, choo-choo, bye-bye, there there, and moonmoon but relaxing the rules a little to incorporate rhymes and near-rhymes yields hip-hop, zig-zag, fancy-shmancy, super-duper, pitter-patter, and okey-dokey. And with contrastive reduplication, in which a word repeats as a modifier to itself"
Everybody
until the purple dusks on a pile of old tires And as we drift down the river on a fallen log
The Angels Have No Wings
Kurt Vonnegut on the Role of Artists in Society
But I continue to think that artists — all artists — should be treasured as alarm systems.
Call Again Soon
Glancing
“The analogy I'm thinking of here is a group of people sitting working at their computers. Every so often, you look up and look around you, sometimes to rest your eyes, and other times to check people are still there. Sometimes you catch an eye, sometimes not. Sometimes it triggers a conversation. But it bonds you into a group experience, without speaking.”
Jonny Sun, the Aliebn Invader
Writing well
Paul Graham
Horror Movies
The Only True Story
There's only one true story. Don't miss reading it.
Take your kid to work
Last night I was picking through my stack and started composer Philip Glass’s memoir, Words Without Music. I wound up reading over 50 pages before I passed out. (That’s a lot: I’m a slow reader, especially at
I knew something was wrong
#64: The Canonical Snow Shovel
“In this future, certain objects, like the snow shovel, might be represented by their own canonical version—the only one Amazon actually ever shows you. Everyone will see their own best choice, though, so it will be canonical just to you.”
Reading with a pencil
The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book. —George Steiner Photographer Bill Hayes wrote a nice essay about Oliver Sacks’ love of words, and he’s been posting images of Sacks’ hand-annotated
Working in Libraries Under Late Capitalism
Same Difference
“Graffiti artists are hired by real estate firms to bring a safe level of grittiness to a neighborhood. Ebay asks us to choose between passing on a valuable collectable to a relative or finding the highest bidder.” “But since something truly new or different is unassimilable to capitalism’s techniques for value extraction — economies of scale, interchangeable workers, mass production — much of creativity under capitalism is, as Mould argues, “newness to maintain more of the same,” rather than the development of new ways of being.”
favorite teachers
The drawbacks of being known
You’ve landed here in search of Paul Jarvis—author of Company of One and podcast host for Call Paul
Mircea Macavei on Twitter: "Poetry washes away the tired residue of words, inviting our imagination to seduce language anew, with childlike wonder and appreciation."
tired residue
My Position on Functional Programming
Our summer raged. But autumn’s blessed darkness is coming.
“But in autumn, the evening of the year, a gradual hush falls over nature, its human parts included.”
Illustrating “It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work”
Take a look behind the scenes at the illustration process for Jason Fried and DHH’s new book, “It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work”. Back story Every essay in Jason and David’s previous titles, REW…
Camille Fournier on Twitter: "This reminds me that I have a half-written blog post about being mid-career in tech that has no conclusion because, well, as you can see, it's unclear to me how to best use this time"
“This reminds me that I have a half-written blog post about being mid-career in tech that has no conclusion because, well, as you can see, it's unclear to me how to best use this time”
Andy Baio on Twitter: "I’m expecting a few days where I have to keep my eyes closed. I’d love your suggestions for audio escapism — podcasts, audiobooks, games, and other non-visual projects that don’t require intense concentration and are easy to
“I’m expecting a few days where I have to keep my eyes closed. I’d love your suggestions for audio escapism — podcasts, audiobooks, games, and other non-visual projects that don’t require intense concentration and are easy to lose yourself in.”
Cushy office perks are a trap
“It’s that work should be a means to an end. And in the end, we should go home.”
Ashwin Enjoys Nature - Dinosaur National Monument
Why are Apple Watch faces such a mess?
The key to the watchOS user interface needs isnu2019t getting the attention it deserves from Apple.
Blogging vs. Twitter
“Twitter can still be great for spreading ideas, but it’s not a particularly good home for them.”
Some Problems with Reposting
“sometimes the obvious levers for growth later open up the unexpected levers for breakage.”