10 Things I Remind Myself before I Draw| A Manifesto by Christoph Niemann
Love this. Via Kottke
Edit: Oh wow. it’s a whole series!
10 Things I Remind Myself before I Draw| A Manifesto by Christoph Niemann
Love this. Via Kottke
Edit: Oh wow. it’s a whole series!
New Slow Horses on Apple TV+ in 3(ish) weeks! Exciting.
I’m thinking about selling my theremin. Haven’t touched it in years.
Via Popbitch – Scurrilous gossip. Scandalous stories. Otters., the only newsletter I still, for some reason, read via email and not via Kill the Newsletter and NewNewsWire.
My routines, save me
Force me to move, to take a step
Stop me standing still
It’s raining worry
Drowning in anxiety
Sea levels rising
Yumo’s art: “rainbow”
10 Classic Klaxons… Things to avoid doing or saying – teacherhead
This gave me some things to think about when i’m teaching.
Happy that Bjork - Joga from the Jools Holland Show is on there. SO good.
The 100 greatest BBC music performances – ranked! | Music | The Guardian
Author William Martin on the wonders of ordinary life:
“Do not ask your children
to strive for extraordinary lives
Such striving may seem admirable,
but it is the way of foolishness.
Help them instead to find the wonder
and the marvel of an ordinary life.
Show them the joy of tasting
tomatoes, apples and pears.
Show them how to cry
when pets and people die.
Show them the infinite pleasure
in the touch of a hand.
And make the ordinary come alive for them.
The extraordinary will take care of itself.”
Source: The Parent’s Tao Te Ching
3-2-1: How to deal with a changing world and the wonders of ordinary life - James Clear
Put it all away
Pick up a thousand new things
Put it all away
Subverting habits means replacing habits. What I’ve learned from my walks is that every day — every step — on the road is a chance for self-renewal, to cast off some small micron of a past, shittier, scared, low-self-worth, less-kind self, and replace it with a more patient, more empathetic, higher value bizarro self. Someone you could have been earlier in life, given a different set of circumstances. Micron by micron, atom by atom, it adds up (one hopes!).
Tokyo Walk, TBOT Cover, Aloneness — Roden Newsletter Archive
If you can be here
Then everything can be done
Or nothing can be!
Finally finished my cover letter but the job website is a down… Ha!
Busy day. Started homework at 7am, recorded an episode of our podcast, been to a party, watched Teengage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Didn’t apply for any jobs though… I guess I keep wanting my applications to be perfect. Which they can never be, can they?
Dad says he’ll buy the kids a toy if they don’t have any screen time this weekend.
My Chinese credit card was rejected by the UK Passport service the email said. Can I call this number to sort it? My issue is, that giving personal info to the web chat to confirm the number was real and then calling the number felt indistinguishable from being scammed.
But there’s a growing body of evidence that trying to recall something is itself a powerful tool for learning, particularly when you are given the correct answer immediately after making a stab at it and then get a chance to try again. Testing your memory – even when you draw a blank – is a way to build new memories.
Flashcards prevail over repetition in memorizing multiplication tables - The Hechinger Report
Reading
Dermott talked about the need to spread love and positivity, and especially to show those values to kids who follow pro hockey.
“Like my parents said growing up, ‘How awesome would it be to be the guy that people look up to?’ That’s what really hit home when I was a kid, especially from my mom. You want to grow up and be that guy.”
Just read Kottke if you don’t, save me posting all the cool and interesting things he posts.
Descartes a Kant - After Destruction (Official Video) - YouTube
This video is awesome!
The format sees racers run a 4.166667-mile loop, called a “yard” in backyard ultrarunning, within a one-hour time limit, after which all finishers within the allotted time are tied for first place, and must present on the start line on the hour to go again. This continues until there is only one runner left standing, who must complete a solo yard to be awarded the win.
Just incredible.
