Category: Links of Interest
We Fill Out Schedules Without Realizing What’s Happened
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Julianna Poplin on No Sidebar: We fill our schedules without even realizing what’s happened. We sign onto things without knowing why we are doing them. We go with the flow of what other parents do, what friends do, or what our family does without stopping to ask questions. Do we want to be doing what…
I Can’t Break Into Your House and Take Back What I Sold You
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Cory Doctorow on DRM When I was a bookseller in Toronto, nothing that happened would ever result in me breaking into your house to take back the books I’d sold you, and if I did, the fact that I left you a refund wouldn’t have made up for the theft. Not all the books Microsoft…
The Impacts of Eating on Our Planet
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On eating the planet to death at Wired. So let’s start with meat. Raising livestock for slaughter is, of course, not particularly good for the planet. Animals demand lots of food and water: A single cow might consume 11,000 gallons of water a year. And that cow burps up methane, an extremely potent greenhouse gas.…
Austin Kleon on Kids These Days by Malcolm Harris
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I enjoy Austin Kleon’s thoughts about Kids These Days. On the one hand, we think of childhood as a place that should be free of labor — we’ve decided, collectively, that it’s inhumane for our children to slave in sweatshops or dig in a coal mine — and on the other hand, between the classroom,…
Women Couldn’t Do These Things
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A sad list of things women couldn’t do in America in 1971. While some of this is better, I just finished reading Invisible Women1 and in many ways we’re barely in a better spot for women now. We can and should be doing better people. I’ll edit the review later today and have it up…
Silicon Valley “Disruption” Isn’t That Transformative
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Out of a longer piece on “disruption” in Silicon Valley. Because, let’s face it, Silicon Valley technology in nearly all cases isn’t so transformative that it would simply replace the existing systems on its merits. Uber isn’t better than a good mass-transit system; Facebook isn’t better than actual friendship; YouTube videos aren’t better than quality…
There Are No Notifications in a Notebook
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I also love paper and in addition to Om’s other reasons, this is a big one. Paper and pen allow you to focus, as there are no notifications in a notebook. When taking notes in a notebook, you are unlikely to be distracted with the latest tweet from your friend or the President. I even…
I Live on the “Soft” End of Town
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I like that I can answer yes to [every single one of these questions](https://www.fastcompany.com/90394171/do-you-live-in-a-soft-city-heres-why-you-probably-want-to): > Imagine yourself sitting in your home. What’s right outside your front door, and what’s within a 10-minute walk of it? Can you make it to a grocery store or a café on foot, or do you have to drive? Is…
Like a Fat Man Loosening His Belt to Prevent Obesity
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[I enjoyed the whole article on parking and housing but this line made me laugh out loud](https://noparkinghere.com/). > Lewis Mumford famously said “Building more roads to prevent congestion is like a fat man loosening his belt to prevent obesity.” I did want a house with a yard, but the more I live close to downtown…
Joe Buhlig Has Me Tempted to Look at OmniFocus Again
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Okay so [Joe has me tempted to look at OmniFocus](https://joebuhlig.com/inspiration-for-a-new-omnifocus-setup-and-workflow/) again, [despite](https://curtismchale.ca/2018/12/03/why-i-use-a-bullet-journal-instead-of-productivity-software/) my [love](https://curtismchale.ca/2018/05/21/how-i-modified-the-bullet-journal-system-to-run-my-online-business/) of notebooks and a modified [Bullet Journal](https://curtismchale.ca/2018/05/07/getting-started-with-bullet-journalling-for-web-developers/) system. Here’s the thing though, my system works for what my life is now so I’m not going to change it. That said, if I was to take a job somewhere or have some…