Male Flight impacting post high school enrolment numbers
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From Celeste on the dropping enrolment of men in college: Male flight describes a similar phenomenon when large numbers of females enter a profession, group, hobby or industry—the men leave. That industry is then devalued. Dang, the mental gymnastics shown by the men to say anything but they’re simply misogynistic and don’t want to compete…
Blog Questions 2024
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Jumping on Kev and Manuel, here are my answers. Why did you start blogging in the first place The oldest post here comes from 2008 when I thought I was a decent designer and made some Photoshop brushes. I had blogged a bit before that on WordPress.com, but those posts are gone. I started blogging…
Right Thing Right Now – Insights the First
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As a child you’re taught to tell the truth, at least that’s what I teach my kids coming down far harder on them for lying about eating all the candy than for eating all the candy if they tell the truth about it. Yet when I sit back and look at the news I see…
Consumption and the Antilibrary
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Umberto Echo had a famously large library of 30,000 books most of which he knew he’d never read. When asked about his huge library he’d correct people calling it his antilibrary, a resource for all the things he didn’t know. It wasn’t about showing off all the books he had read, because he already had…
My Favourite Books of 2024
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Non-Fiction Dark PR First, Grant was kind enough to gift me a physical copy of this book when I said it wasn’t available at my local library. No request from him, just asked for my address and sent a book. In this book the reader is provided with many frameworks to use when they think…
Tracy on wanting more
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Good post from Tracy on the culture of more. I own about 500 physical books personally, and I’d guess if we include the kids books we have over 1000 books in the house. We love books and if a kid expresses interest in a book I almost always buy it for them. I didn’t say…
I HATE magic login links
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Yes I hate them, so much that every time I realize a site uses one I stop and spend some time wondering if I really need to use that site. But 404 media has a compelling case for not wanting usernames/passwords which makes the magic link not a terrible idea for many. I know that…
2025 – Looking Forward
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Extending my 2024 stats here are some thoughts on 2025. Content I did a decent job writing in 2024, but my video production dropped off. For 2025 I’d like to be intentional again about getting videos out on YouTube. While I’ll still cover some software stuff on Obsidian or Calibre I’m going to focus more…
2024 Stats
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My Site I had 120k views on my site with the most popular post being a look at Scott Scheper’s Antinet Zettelkasten book, which I don’t think is worth your time. My second most popular post was How to Handle PDFs natively in Obsidian. Both of those posts were from 2023 and when I look…
Are headphones bad for your hearing?
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No as long as you keep the volume low enough and in fact noise cancelling headphones can help preserve hearing in some cases, but they’re not hearing protection. If you’re doing construction wear hearing protection and properly guard your hearing.
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