2020
266 posts in 2020.
- Christmas slobbing about
- What day is it? What date?
- 40 things I’ve learned in 40 years.
- Free Software and two forms of liberty
- My favourite posts of 2020
- 5 things I've learned this (work) year
- Current optimization is long-term anachronism
- No more performative professionalism
- The cash value of truth
- Weeknote 49/2020
- Who are you without the doing?
- Skin in the game?
- Are you OK?
- See you in 2021!
- Weeknote 48/2020
- The self-cannibalisation of ideas and experience
- Give and you shall receive
- A world without apps?
- He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them
- Define your audience or your product will (probably) fail
- Convenience, UX, and ethics
- (A)synchronous project updates within organisations
- What's your favourite month?
- What kind of world do we want? (or, why regulation matters)
- Weeknote 47/2020
- Spatial video conferencing with self-organised breakout rooms
- A candour affected is a dagger concealed
- Slowly-boiling frogs in Facebook's surveillance panopticon
- Weeknote 46/2020
- What I do when I don't know what to do
- To pursue the unattainable is insanity, yet the thoughtless can never refrain from doing so
- 'Prepper' philosophy
- The Ice Cream Fork of Productisation
- Much will have more
- Philosophical anxiety as a superpower
- How to build ideological products that delight users
- Weeknote 45/2020
- You can’t tech your way out of problems the tech didn’t create
- Our better natures
- Even those of a harsh and unyielding nature will endure gentle treatment: no creature is fierce and frightening if it is stroked
- Introspection, truth, and error
- When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other
- Ethical living
- Weeknote 44/2020
- Reafferent loops
- Hiring is broken, but not in the ways you assume
- If you have been put in your place long enough, you begin to act like the place
- 10 ways to Build Back Better
- Why we can't have nice things
- Baltasar Gracián on patience
- Collaboration is our default operating system
- Everything intercepts us from ourselves
- Marcus Aurelius on character
- Weeknote 43/2020
- How to plan a workshop in 10 steps
- Fighting health disinformation on Wikipedia
- Perceptions of the past
- Lying in bed with Marcus Aurelius and Mahatma Gandhi, thinking about work
- Gatekeepers of opportunity and the lottery of privilege
- The state of professional social networking: a personal history
- Tedious sports
- Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed
- Biometric surveillance in a post-pandemic future
- Weeknote 42/2020
- Ethics is the result of the human will
- Even while a thing is in the act of coming into existence, some part of it has already ceased to be
- Forward momentum above all things
- We all think we are exceptional, and are surprised to find ourselves criticised just like anyone else
- Scenario planning, climate change, and the pandemic
- Weeknote 41/2020
- The problems with Twitter's attempts at anti-disinformation in the run-up to the US Presidential election
- At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them
- Reducing exam stress by removing pointless exams
- The clever man often worries; the loyal person is often overworked
- Learning through frustration
- Weeknote 40/2020
- Like the flight of a sparrow through a lighted hall, from darkness into darkness
- Face-to-face university classes during a pandemic? Why?
- 'Rulesy' people
- The importance of co-operation
- One is not superior merely because one sees the world in an odious light
- How to give advice
- The truth is too simple: one must always get there by a complicated route
- Weeknote 39/2020
- Running with the wolves
- The crisis in professional sport is one of its own making
- If you don’t know what you’re doing, you can be very creative about it
- The discourse of disruption
- Let's talk
- An ounce of good sense is worth a pound of subtlety
- Entirely predictable
- Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome
- Privilege and pandemic
- The future of closed, proprietary technology is within your body
- Weeknote 38/2020
- NVC and FONT
- Pandemic microaggressions
- The most radical thing you can do is stay home
- Consensus, legitimate controversy, and deviance
- Working out loud is noisy
- One nation under Zuck
- Things Come Apart
- New habits die easily
- More advice on perfectionism
- To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others
- 'Recycling' plastic is an oil industry scam
- Weeknote 37/2020
- Rejecting the ideas hamster
- Lifequakes
- As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of demand
- Inside your pain are the things you care about most deeply
- The world needs less philanthropy and more equality
- To be in process of change is not an evil, any more than to be the product of change is a good
- We're not even citizens, just independent contractors
- Marcus Aurelius on troubles
- Enforced idleness
- What is above knows what is below, what is below does not know what is above
- An incredible example of societal collapse
- Weeknote 36/2020
- The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit of doing them
- Perfectionism is more toxic than you imagine
- Rethinking human responses to adversity
- 85 megapixel photo of the moon
- Pandemic-induced awkwardness
- What do we mean by 'the economy'?
- What man of energy does not find inactivity a punishment?
- Some changes to Thought Shrapnel
- What's the purpose of Philosophy?
- Weeknote 35/2020
- Deleting my Patreon account
- Changing desktop environment in Pop!_OS
- 3 advantages of consent-based decision making
- Letting go of my pre-pandemic self
- Weeknote 34/2020
- Temporarily embarrassed influencers
- Kettled by Big Tech?
- Remaining unmanaged
- The auto-suggested life is not worth living
- Strengths and schooling
- Weeknote 33/2020
- Climate ch-ch-ch-changes
- Moving Mastodon instance
- Giving consent
- Experimenting with the MAF method
- Keeping it simple
- Weeknote 32/2020
- Herd immunity for privacy
- We're the real losers of realtime behavioural advertising auctions
- Three internets?
- Identity, obedience, and social media
- Lies and misinformation
- Things could be worse
- One year.
- Opinions and preferences
- Musonius Rufus on meat
- Living a good life is not a theoretical exercise
- HOWTO: Create radically smaller images for your minimalist blog
- Weeknote 30/2020
- Moving on
- Saturday spinnings
- Perfectionism
- Liquid society?
- Rules to live by
- Just write.
- The perfect non-technical book on decentralisation?
- Sort-of breaking up with Cloudflare
- Weeknote 29/2020
- Saturday sailings
- Time for a more sustainable blog theme
- Friday fadings
- Saturday shakings
- Using WhatsApp is a (poor) choice that you make
- Sounds from a #realworldhomeoffice
- A tour of my #realworldhomeoffice
- How I use analogue notebooks
- Saturday shoutings
- Slow down or I'll do it for you
- Not everything has to be digital: my analogue daily and weekly planners
- The highest ambition of the integrated spectacle is to turn secret agents into revolutionaries and revolutionaries into secret agents
- Weeknote 25/2020
- Saturday scrapings
- Managing projects is about understanding context
- Everyone has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions
- Practice what you preach
- #100DaysToOffload: Day 1 - Introduction
- Weeknote 24/2020
- Saturday soundings
- Weeknote 23/2020
- Weeknote 22/2020
- Saturday shruggings
- Weeknote 21/2020
- Saturday signalings
- The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases
- Weeknote 20/2020
- Saturday shiftings
- Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say
- Weeknote 19/2020
- Saturday seductions
- Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony
- Weeknote 18/2020
- Saturday scramblings
- The old is dying and the new cannot be born
- Weeknote 17/2020
- Saturday sandcastles
- Thus each man ever flees himself
- Weeknote 16/2020
- Saturday scrubbings
- Creating and seeding your own torrents using archive.org and Transmission
- 3 apps to help avoid post-pandemic surveillance culture [VIDEO]
- Weeknote 15/2020
- Friday fashionings
- There is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it
- Weeknote 14/2020
- Friday forebodings
- Domains, decentralisation, and DNS
- Wiki backup: information environment
- Wiki backup: collaboration style
- Wiki backup: daily reading
- We have it in our power to begin the world over again
- Weeknote 13/2020
- Friday flickerings
- People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character
- Weeknote 12/2020
- Weeknote 11/2020
- Email is the original robust, decentralised technology
- Friday fumings
- How to easily share educational resources via bittorrent
- We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet
- Weeknote 10/2020
- Friday filchings
- What the crowd requires is mediocrity of the highest order
- Walking in memory of Dai
- Weeknote 09/2020
- Friday fluidity
- Weeknote 08/2020
- Friday facings
- Thought Shrapnel Vol.1: Personal Productivity
- New to Thought Shrapnel? Try this!
- Weeknote 07/2020
- Friday feelings
- Microcast #086 — Strategies for dealing with surveillance capitalism
- There are many non-essential activities, moths of precious time, and it's worse to take an interest in irrelevant things than do nothing at all
- Weeknote 06/2020
- Friday flaggings
- Software ate the world, so all the world’s problems get expressed in software
- Weeknote 05/2020
- Friday featherings
- Microcast #085 — Extensions for Mozilla Firefox
- To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are playing
- Weeknote 04/2020
- Friday festoonings
- Featured on the Digital2Learn podcast
- Microcast #084 - Chris Dixon on RSS, crypto, and community ownership of the internet
- Decision-making and ambiguity
- How you do anything is how you do everything
- Weeknote 03/2020
- Friday foggings
- Microcast #083 - Ambiguous in Kuwait City
- Given things as they are, how shall one individual live?
- Weeknote 02/2019
- Friday flurries
- Microcast #082 - Nodenoggin
- Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted
- Weeknote 01/2020
- Friday fertilisations
- Microcast #081 - Anarchy, Federation, and the IndieWeb