Category: 3 Threads
Dehumanizing Safety Gear
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Two friends got run over by a car this week while riding their bikes. One is doing fine, the other was likely on his last ride. I’ve been on the radio this week and talking to a number of my non-cycling friends about bike and pedestrian safety this week and I wanted to share a
Tranquility Over The Trend of Complexity
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Next week is vacation so I doubt I’ll be writing anything. Instead I’ll be enjoying a cabin in Northern BC. In Search of Novelty There’s another reason simplicity offends. It’s boring. And boredom is culturally taboo in high-status circles. – The Cult of Hard Mode I think about this idea regularly, we look for new
Thinking in Edges – Boundaries for the Modern Mind
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Adding Edges to Consumption Caitlin Dewey spent this great article exploring how to have guardrails on media consumption. Social media sites aren’t going to do it for you. The algorithms on Facebook and X and Reddit are designed to keep feeding you shit that keeps you interested by focusing on stuff that makes you emotional.
Building Better Systems by Owning What You Want and How You Work
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I’m spending next weekend away racing bikes. Don’t expect an email but have an excellent weekend. Notebooks for Coders I learned very early on in my career that I’m not very good at thinking when I’m at a computer. When I have my code editor open, I’m in a “function mode” where I write stuff
Good Books, Deep Rest, Enough Work
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Get this in your inbox by joining the email list. Workload and Rest Cal Newport brought up a few studies that looked at the four-day work week to show that productivity barely decreases, if it decreases at all, when you reduce work by an entire day. But Alex Pang spent two books examining this idea.
Old Tools, Quiet Moments, and Slower Living – A Rebellion Against the Frenzy
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New stuff isn’t necessarily better I agree, old software has value. One of Cal Newport’s books puts forward the idea that we automatically view any new technology as good, he contrasts this with the Amish who evaluate the utility of a technology in helping them maintain the way of life they want to have. This
Rejecting Status, Resisting YouTube, and Redefining Success in Unseen Work
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Unstatus Joan had an interesting post about stepping away from the status markers of society. While many people are stepping away from the traditional markers of status, cars/houses, that also shows the status they have as she acknowledges. Rejecting conventional status markers often requires already possessing substantial financial, social, and cultural capital. The lawyer can
From Cancelled Talks to Digital Gardens – The Power of Uncomfortable Ideas
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Ryan Holiday’s Cancelled Talk Recently Ryan Holiday had his talk at the US Naval Academy cancelled which means that we’re really looking at the Streisand effect where his talk is going to get far more coverage than it would of presented to a small group of Navy recruits. This talk is about wisdom, here are
April 2025 Book Recap
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Non Fiction Making it So by Patrick Steward My wife got me this for Chrismas 2023 and I finally sat down and read the wonderful book looking at the life of Patrick Steward from his perspective. A few things stand out to me, he was 45 when he got the roll as Captian Picard in
Unicorn Power and the Freedom to Not Care
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If there was one thing I could convince my children to do it would be to not care what other people think about them. I wish I could convince them that it’s okay to disappoint the expectations that some people put on you. I’ve got this wonderful unicorn print cycling jersey that is the most