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Highlight of the week: took the day off Wednesday to lounge around and read Looking forward to: reading a lot of fun, light books this weekend Stuff I did: 0.5 hours consulting 5.75 hours writing 0.75 hours business admin baked blueberry crumb pie (blackberries went moldy 😿) — decided at 8pm that I wanted dessert so […]| Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
Selling lemons by Frank Chimero What makes the Market for Lemons concept so appealing (and what differentiates it in my mind from enshittification) is that everyone can be acting reasonably, pursuing their own interests, and things still get worse for everyone. No one has to be evil or stupid: the platform does what’s profitable, sellers […]| Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
(Note: song has a jump scare at 30 seconds, do not crank the volume like I did the first time I listened to this album, while driving 😵😂) Emphasis mine in all. Against Self-Analysis by Haley Nahman I’ve been thinking about that critical impulse, the one that pushed me toward the most ungenerous reading […]| Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
Do you want the Internet to be an extension of your existing offline relationships, or to be separate from your offline life? I think these are two totally different modes for using the Internet, and most people are in the first group. I’ve found my relationships are healthier when I keep my offline-first relationships offline (e.g. […]| Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
Light & Magic by Ladytron Been rocking out to Flicking Your Switch all week so I put on the whole album and it’s still a banger. (First half especially.) Digging Turn It On. I’ve given these songs star ratings in the past and it’s funny how different songs speak to you at different ages — […]| Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
Win of the week: the city installed a bike lane on the segment of greenway I advocated for!!! I know it wasn’t just me but I’m taking partial credit 😎 Looking forward to: got berries to bake Smitten Kitchen’s blackberry-blueberry crumb pie Stuff I did: 0.75 hours consulting 1.75 hours business development — meeting and research […]| Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
We trekked up to the mountains today — hit construction traffic so it took twice as long as usual, about an hour and a half. After a picnic lunch, we meandered the riverbank checking out rocks. We used to come here all the time but iirc it’s been a couple years. Unfortunately, the air was […]| Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
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We traded privacy for belonging| Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
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This is part three of a series on tackling wants, managing my media diet, and finding enough. Read the introduction on “the mindset of more.”| Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
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As we in the IndieWeb promote personal websites and encourage more people to write and publish online, and nostalgia for blogs and RSS is high, it’s useful to hone in on what exactly we’re talking about when we say blog.* Because, despite being a form of writing for more than 20 years, blogging is surprisingly hard to pin down.**| Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
I’ve been playing the game Satisfactory recently with my sister. In it, you are workers setting up mines and factories on a new planet. You don’t have the full list of everything you’re going to need to do upfront, so you build each thing as you need it… winding up with a convoluted mess once you reach a certain stage of production. Our setup had us constantly hurdling over mazes of conveyor belts (because we hadn’t realized yet it was possible to elevate them). In the game, it’s ...| Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
Last week, I updated my blogroll to include everyone in my RSS feed reader. While I read a lot of topical blogs and newsletters, I also follow a goodly number of interesting people I don’t know as well as acquaintances. I didn’t include these personal blogs on my blogroll before, but decided it was time to add them.| Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
Twenty years ago today, I wrote my first blog post! (I stopped blogging from about 2009-2011, so I haven’t technically been blogging for twenty years yet — guess I get to celebrate twenty years twice 😂)| Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
Replied to The Curse of Recursion: Training on Generated Data Makes Models Forget (arXiv.org)| Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden