Journal

  • Choose Your Ignorance

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    The world contains far more information than any single person can learn in their lifetime. The question is not whether you are ignorant, but what you choose to be ignorant about. Few topics are worth your precious time. Choose what you pay attention to with…

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  • Explore More

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    Curiosity is the impulse to sort ideas out, to travel, and explore. It’s way past time to explore more.

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  • Media Log- May 2022

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    “There is now a little question that how one uses one’s attention, moment to moment, largely determines what kind of person one becomes. Our minds, our lives are largely shaped by how we use them.” – Sam Harris In other words, we are what we…

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  • New Challenge Accepted

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    Feeling the need for a change, and a lack of discipline, I’ve decided to drop the 11-month journey. Instead of writing a new 1/2 year’s resolution, I’ve decided to have a focus word instead. What is a focus word for the 1/2 year? A focus…

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  • Geocache

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    The annual subscription to Geocaching is almost up. The e-mail reminder was a wake up call that I haven’t been out there and that’s a pity. Now that I am reminded, I need to et going and finding some caches!

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  • 6-6 Waypoint Check-In + A New Challenge

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    This is the 4th and last stop of my 11th month journey to create life-long habits for myself. The full write-up on this is hosted in the Archives. I planned to take on this year-long trek up to December 12th (12/12) and to stop and…

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  • Coming Soon

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  • Personal Publishing Principles

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    When’s the last time you went to an actual website to read a real article written by a human, without being slapped in the face by pop-ups, cookie warnings, ads, and lead-generating magnets? It’s past time to get back to the basics of the WWW.…

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  • Tangled Thoughts

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    Thinking is not only non-linear, it’s messy. When I picture what my thoughts look like, I don’t see a nice straight road with checkpoints, I see a massive web of tangled threads. My thoughts/notes in graph form

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  • Illiteracy

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    “The illiterate of the 21st century, will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” – Alvin Toffler

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  • The Internet Is Broken

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    Anyone else noticed that today’s WWW is insufferable? I don’t specifically know when it turned, or why most users became jerks, but I’ll go ahead and guess about 2010. Making money off of content became more important than the content itself. This is a long…

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  • How To Become The Great Urban Photographer

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    If you loosely apply Lomography’s ten golden rules, you’ll do just fine. Take your camera with you everywhere you go. Use your camera any time, day, or night. Photography is not an interference of your life but a part of it Shoot from the hip…

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