2024-11-21

• Finished rereading (listening) [[Doughnut Economics]].
  • Still relevant and useful.
  • I should write up some takeaways. (Maybe use that rubric from the OU module?)

• I’m [[sick]]. Nothing serious, feels like the flu. [[AG]] got it over the weekend.
  • Working from home and catching some [[Meet University]] talks, although today only until 16. There’s an all hands later I may put in the background; I told my manager I was low energy and would focus on resting half a day.
• I cut my hair, which usually makes me feel fresher, and it did. I also shaved everything except my mustache, for [[Movember]] (is it still a thing? I think so)

2024-11-20

• [[Substack]]
  • Don’t call it a Substack. - Anil Dash

• [[work]]
  • I woke up sick but I worked from home anyway.
  • [[Meet University]] was good!
• then I rested after work, ate something, spent time with [[Burup]] and caught up with friends
• then I thought about:
  • [[Ekumen]]:
    • Spoke to [[Eduardo Mercovich]] about next steps, caught up with email :)
    • Set up coordination device for first meeting
      • What’s the name of that nice modern [[doodle alternative]] again…?
      • We used it in the [[twg]]]…
      • [[crab fit]]!
    • Update git repo in some interesting way?
    • What about [[ekumen.agor.ai]]? :)
• [[cwebber]] joined [[social.coop]] earlier this week!

2024-11-19

• [[causal loop diagram]]s.

• Looking at Lend Engine and MyTurn as software options for our [[library of things]].

2024-11-18

• [[wp cli]] is handy.

• In a [[causal loop diagram]], where do you put actions, things that happen? I guess it’s a flow. But, what causes the flow?

• [[17]] stands for: [[Right Concentration]], [[Maitreya]] :)
• We’re planning on going to the cinema with friends today to watch [[Anora]].

2024-11-17

• Reread Robin Sloan’s article on [[Stock and flow]].
  • As an analogy for garden and stream.
  • Not sure if it’s an analogy to [[stocks and flows]] specifically in systems thinking, or there’s a more generic economic concept.
  • Anyway - he makes a good point that it’s not good to be all stock, no flow.
  • He means it in the sense of, you should post to the stream a little bit, so people know what you’re up to.
  • I should consider that - I generally don’t post to social media streams, just to my journal here.
  • Which I like as it remains distraction free.
  • But it does reduce social interaction significantly.

• Some [[social.coop]] fun on [[2024-11-15]] after work :)
  • I heard and read of [[Mathilde Sanders]]
• Excited about yesterday finding:
  • [[wikibonsai]]
  • [[structured conversational communication]]

2024-11-16

• [[Doughnut Economics]]
  • Some mentions of [[Libre software]], [[knowledge commons]], [[Cooperatives]] as parts of an economy that is distributive by design.

• Some [[social.coop]] fun on [[2024-11-15]] after work :)
• I heard of [[Mathilde Sanders]]

• I [[worked]]; it was fine actually, I had a late review meeting (I don’t usually have meetings on Fridays) but it was interesting/felt worth it.
• I met [[L]]! We spent some of the afternoon together. It was very nice to see her.
• I then worked on [[social.coop]], scaling up (with [[Dan]]). Then I read/wrote/coded a bit.
  • Maybe did yoga? But that was [[2024-11-16]] :)

2024-11-14

• On Tuesday I went to a workshop on learning the basics of electrical repairs.

  • Was good to meet some other volunteers from the area.
    • The round of intros took up a lot of the session though…
  • Had a bit of an overview on useful tools and basic electronic components, wired a plug, and then started repairing broken items we had brought with us.
  • It’s a two parter. Next time we’ll look at using a [[multimeter]], [[PAT testing]], and the [[right to repair]].

• [[Doughnut Economics]] has a good overview of what a [[system]] is and why [[systems thinking]] of useful.

2024-11-13

• The [[Our Changing Climate]] video channel is good.
  • Watched: [[Why We Need Socialism]]
  • Watched: [[What Does a Solarpunk City Look Like?]]

• I found a ‘task list’ (I have 7-8 at any given time, usually anything from a3 to a4, envelopes and forms and such that I reuse to write things to do later) which I sort of completed so I archived it. It had the number [[131]] on it, without further context, although it was close to a task related to Wikipedia in the Agora that I have advanced.
  • It is prime in case you’re wondering :) [[prime/131]].
  • Which reminds me about the notion of having prime/ be autopulled when n is a number. Hmm.
• [[Algún día]]
• Noding from [[paramita]] and from [[nostromo]] while I work on the Agora tonight.
  • I’m already showered and can go until the time I go to bed, probably early as I woke up at 6am due to double pages :)
  • I’ll enjoy the ride for however long it lasts!
  • I thought of [[2024-11-19]].
  • I thought of the future.

2024-11-11

• [[agora development]]:
  • fix mastodon 4.3 embeds?
  • and what comes next?
• [[writing]]:
  • I say I want to do more writing in long form/intelligibly to the average prose reader, but don’t often make time for it. Some time ago I said Sundays were going to be for this kind of writing more often, and I could try to uphold this today. Let’s see.
  • [[letters]]: some [[closed]], some [[open]]
• To test [[collimation]]:
  • As it’s cloudy, maybe I’ll observe the distant LEDs in a construction crane ~500m away tonight.

• [[social coop hosting]]
• [[conduit]]
• [[collimate]]

2024-11-09

• [[Doughnut Economics]]

  • The developer of the concept of [[GDP]], Simon Kuznets, didn’t think it was a good measure of national welfare.

• Microblurting with a mindmap.

  • [[my blurts]]
  • After trying a few different mindmap apps on Android, going with miMind for now.
  • Alas, hand-writing PlantUML mind map markup doesn’t cut it for current purposes.

• [[Doughnut Economics]]

  • The [[Holocene]] is an incredibly hospitable Earth and the favourable conditions would last for an unusually long time, were we humans not pushing the planet out of this period of stability.
  • We need to change the indicator for success from ever upwards and forwards growth to dynamically thriving in balance.

2024-11-08

• Back in [[Silverbullet]] after a few days only making it to [[codium]] — which in some ways was good, as it means I managed to carve out some time for some playful coding through the week.
  • [[Stapelberg]] is now using [[Silverbullet]] as well and seems to like it as well although he did comment on the system requirements; I agree it can be intense in larger gardens. But still it is capable enough and a solid enough writing environment that it’s the best tool I know of in knowledge space currently.
• Work was good, tough at times but I believe overall productive.
  • I’ve been feeling and looking a bit tired lately so I started taking iron again, and might take vitamin D supplements (as I’ve been doing seasonally with good effect).
• Tomorrow I’ll see [[AG]] :)
• This evening after work I started working on the Agora and writing. [[Lady Burup]] is sitting to my back on her green cushion.
• Someone reached out over [[Telegram]].
• I thought about [[Ekumen]].
• I did [[Agora development]].
  • I iterated on more interface issues that had long nagged me/I had long wanted to work on.
  • Shipped iterations in the [[themes]].
  • Changed button location to have it make more sense given what it actually does.

• Look for [[people]] to recognize their bridging of different domains. Offer them [[action]]. [[Show]] how they fit with [[tomorrow]]. collapsed:: true
  • [[Systems]] [[Engineer]] with [[Philosophy]] interests. collapsed:: true
    • "Let’s build systems that reflect deeper philosophical truths"
  • Dropout [[Physics]] PhD/[[Meditation]] Teacher collapsed:: true
    • Help create spaces where both rigorous thinking and deep [[presence]] can flourish
  • [[BJJ]] Instructor with Interest in [[Group]] Dynamics collapsed:: true
    • Apply what works on the mat to building [[strong]] communities
  • [[Community]] [[Organizer]] with Tech Background collapsed:: true
    • Build communities that can grow without losing their soul
  • [[Designer]] Interested in [[Social]] Systems collapsed:: true
    • Design spaces that [[nurture]] genuine human [[connection]]
  • Independent [[Researcher]]/[[Writer]] collapsed:: true
    • Turn your [[insights]] into living [[experiments]]
• [[Documentation]] is the first step to [[automation]].
• Palantir playbook: collapsed:: true
  • Only [[sell]] to companies that expect imminent [[death]].
  • Get [[buy]]-in from [[top]] and [[bottom]].
  • Use top and bottom to [[squeeze]] [[data]] out.
• What [[opportunities]] might be around [[stratospheric]] craft?
• Every [[time]] I [[feel]] [[annoyed]]/[[tired]] = [[opportunity]] collapsed:: true
  • [[Annoyed]] = [[repeating]] something
  • [[Tired]] = [[manual]] work
  • [[Stressed]] = [[dependency]] on me
  • [[Relief]] = [[automation]] working
  • [[Excitement]] = system [[adoption]]
  • [[Peace]] = [[leverage]] [[growing]]
  • When something is truly [[leveraged]], I [[feel]]: collapsed:: true
    • [[Shoulders]] relaxed
    • [[Breathing]] deeper
    • [[Stomach]] unclenched
    • Mind [[clear]] and chomping at the bit
  • From [[pride]] in being [[needed]] → [[satisfaction]] in not being needed
  • From [[shame]] about not doing the [[work]] → [[excitement]] about the [[work]] happening without me collapsed:: true
    • 1. Sit in [[silence]] with project in [[mind]]
      2. [[Notice]] [[physical]] response to [[questions]]:
      • If I went away for a month, would this keep working?
      • Is this [[solution]] teaching people to fish?
      • Am I the [[bottleneck]]?
      • Pay [[attention]] to:
        • [[Throat]] tightening ([[fear]] of letting go)
        • Chest expansion (pride in being needed)
        • Stomach dropping (knowing it’s not [[growing]] itself)
        • Shoulder [[tension]] (holding too much [[responsibility]])
          • Track which [[feels]] correlate with:
          • True [[leverage]] ([[flows]] without me)
          • False [[leverage]] (seems automated but isn’t)
• I admit I’m carrying too much [[responsibility]]. I’ve got to find [[waves]] to [[offload]] parts of it onto. Systems to help [[grow]].
• [[Skip]] patterns: collapsed:: true
  • OLD [[VALIDATION]]: "Are people asking for this?"
  • NEW [[VALIDATION]]: "Are people already trying to [[skip]] this entire [[process]]?"
  • Watch the [[space]] between.
  • What are people trying not to perceive?
  • What do they [[filter]] out of their [[perception]]?
  • What [[decisions]] would they prefer [[front]] [[loaded]]?
  • Where are they pre[[loading]] them to?
• [[Neck]] [[tension]] = too much [[process]] [[knowledge]]?
• Instead of: "Let me [[help]] you with that" collapsed:: true
  • Try: "What would make this easier next [[time]]?"

2024-11-08

• [[digital ecosocialism]]

• [[Doughnut Economics]]

  • I like the seven ways to think like a 21st century economist:
    • Change the Goal
    • See the Big Picture
    • Nurture Human Nature
    • Get Savvy with Systems
    • Design to Distribute
    • Create to Regenerate
    • Be Agnostic about Growth

2024-11-07

• Not sure how to process the US election 2024 results.
  • It feels pretty devastating. The short term and long term repercussions seem catastrophic.
  • Right now, avoiding all the news and analysis - too much to get lost in and I don’t have the headspace for it at the moment.
  • Finding ways to offer practical solidarity to threatened and affected groups in the US seems like the most productive action in the short term.

• I shipped a fix to wiki.social.coop (the result of coworking with Dan through the week, it was great!)
• I shipped some layout/theme improvements to anagora.org, it felt great as well. I like UI stuff actually it seems, in the right dosage.
• I worked and I was a bit tired at times but it was good and interesting.
• The [[US Election]] news hit hard, myself and many friends.
• I spent time with [[Lady Burup]] in the evening :)

• [[birthdays]]
• [[music hackspace]]

2024-11-05

• Wow - I am blown away by how fantastically useful [[org mode clock tables]] are.

• Back to work :)
  • I had the day off but I decided to work anyway; the meeting load seemed manageable and I was able to carve out a good-sized flow block, so it seemed like a good idea to get the week started today.
  • Ended up working half a day, which seemed like a good compromise; I ticked a few things off my todo list to start the week in good shape, freeing the rest for some critical tasks hopefully.
• Thought about social.coop after work
  • [[TWG]]:
    • meeting?
  • [[CWG]]:
    • Also the question of [[matrix]] for coordinating work, which is met with resistance by some working group members only. For me interop is the clear solution, let’s see.

2024-11-04

• Listening to [[Doughnut Economics]] now.

  • I’ve recently read it, but seemed like a good choice to revisit - big ideas but palatably presented.
  • Also I consider it reasonably [[ecosocialist]] in outlook. The combo of social foundation and planetary boundaries. Even though it presents itself somewhat apolitically.

• [[Data commons]] are [[digital ecosocialism]].

  • I work on a data commons - the [[Open Repair Alliance dataset]].

• I’m going to try to go back to keeping more of my todo list here digitally.
• Today was good; melancholy at times, but it ended up on high notes.
• Tomorrow I have the day off, but I might work anyway.

2024-11-03

• [[Some small experiments in ‘microblurting’]]

• Finished [[A Short History of Nearly Everything]] (audiobook)

  • Fun and informative and very wide ranging on various science topics.
  • My immediate takeaway: the Universe is sublime, Earth is amazing, life is improbable and astonishing; human intelligence is incredible, yet we are astoundingly terrible stewards of life and the planet.
    • And we need to resolve that last issue immediately.
  • Listened via [[libro.fm]].

• [[japan 2024]]
• I came across [[Bluesky and enshittification]] by [[Cory Doctorow]]: https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/

2024-11-02

• Everybody blurts, sometimes

  • [[my blurts]]

• More one handed mode configuration for Termux:

  • [[making it easier to open the session drawer in Termux in right-handed one-handed mode]]

• [[work]] from home as a technician was coming to fix the sinks, it’s great after the fact like a lot of maintenance tasks! I hope to be able to do it myself if it’s needed again, let’s see.
• [[Ekumen]]
• [[Feedback on the Agora]] by [[Eduardo]]:
  • No hay jerarquías y no hay orden
  • No hay jerarquías:
    • Nodo está en la misma jerarquía que wikipedia/wiktionary/results
    • (Sobre las divisiones entre ágora y no ágora)
    • Primero podría ir el ágora y después de adentro hacia afuera
  • Datos y metadatos están mezclados
  • Líneas y "1 + 1 = 3"
    • Espacio negativo
    • Alternancia entre colores y grises
  • Dos grupos:
    • info acá
    • e info en otros lados
  • Transclusión, etc.
  • Quizás un tabbed interface? Mostrar que e.g. wiktionary tiene contenido relevante pero no mostrarlo como elemento de primer nivel.

2024-11-01

• What is the relationship between ecology and earth systems science?

• I would like to learn more about [[systems ecology]].

• [[Las Jaras]] is here!
  • How sweet it is
• I’m trying to update the firmware of my [[8bitdo retro keyboard]] and it’s harder than expected due to the fact that [[8bitdo]] only supports Mac and Windows, but I’m making some progress.

2024-10-31

• [[microblurting]] at [[my blurts]]

  • As per yesterday, trying them out in their own page, semi-hidden. Hidden in the sense of not visibility, not privacy.

• I solved my [[issue with evil-escape in Doom on Termux]].

2024-10-30

• I’m [[microblurting]].

• Blurt

  • [[Data science]] is a combination of data analytics, statistics, and machine learning.
  • [[Data analytics]] looks at past data and explores patterns and issues. It is descriptive.
  • Statistics can be descriptive but also predictive?
  • [[Machine learning]] is primarily predictive?

• Blurt

  • Data science is multidisciplinary, encompassing data analytics, statistics and machine learning, among other areas.

• I’m thinking that blurting is probably better semi private.

  • It might not be of great interest for others to read half formed, quite possibly incorrect statements about various things.
  • Social streams are more interesting when they have some personal, subjective opinion based element I feel, rather than attempted recall of facts.
  • Though, it would be nice to receive feedback on some things. So perhaps semi private is good.

• [[HeliBoard]] is going well.

  • Some nice features. Very customisable.
  • Being able to adjust the width of the one handed keyboard is very useful.
  • swipe typing works pretty well, though I have a sense not quite so good as gboard?

• [[work]] was intense meetings, summit, then working late - but good I think.
• [[go/flow/29]] is about [[trust]].

2024-10-29

• [[Human physiology]] - the processes and functions of living organisms. Rather than, say, the structure of the body or evolutionary history.

• [[Passive repetition]] can result in an [[illusion of knowing]].

  • Better to do [[active repetition]] when you can.
  • Writing in a digital garden or on social media is a form of active repetition.

• Actually, you could also do passive repetition in a digital garden.

  • Just copying and pasting text from elsewhere would be largely passive repetition. Similar to just underlining or highlighting.
  • I think the journal aspect of a digital garden is good for active repetition.
  • A space to summarise ideas in your own words, and for "blurting".
  • So really, that’s more the stream than the garden?
  • I suppose you can do active recall in both. But I’d say the stream is your working area for it, and the garden where you store what sticks long term.

• One of the key uses of a stream and garden for me is active recall and repetition. So worth thinking about it a bit more.

  • [[Active recall and passive repetition in the digital stream and garden]]

• Trying [[HeliBoard]].

  • Mainly to avoid the annoying display of ‘Passwords’ that Gboard does when in [[Termux]].
  • Hey, turns out HeliBoard does it too. Must be a Termux issue.
  • Still, I like that this is fully open source and available via [[F-Droid]].

• [[Learning blurt]]

  • [[Amino acids]] are the building blocks of [[life]].
  • They are what constitute [[proteins]].
  • [[Biochemistry]]

• Traditional social media / microblogging can also be great for active recall.

  • Particularly as dialogue and group discussion is an excellent prompt for active recall.
  • However for me they also have a huge problem - distraction.
  • I can’t go on the Fediverse without it ending up as a bit of a mindless scroll fest. (Which, admittedly of often a useful tool for information discovery…)

• [[Learning blurt]]

  • [[Bacteria]]
    • Humans are teeming with them.
    • Trillions in the gut alone.
    • We couldn’t exist without them. They could happily exist without us.
    • [[Microbiology]]

• I listened to a good ACFM episode on the gut microbiome recently: [[ACFM Trip 41: Trust Your Gut]]

• I think I’ll explore "[[microblurting]]" as a thing.

  • Is microblurting a useful way to do active recall? Should one blurt in public spaces? We’ll find out.

2024-10-28

• I biked to work and I’m happy I did, it wasn’t too cold and the exercise felt great both ways.
  • Now I’m cozy at home typing on my mechanical keyboard with Lady Burup (she occasionally also types, but also I just mean we’re spending time together :)).
  • I was also melancholy for personal reasons but it felt constructive, like processing.

2024-10-28

• [[A Short History of Nearly Everything]]
  • So far: astrophysics, geology, chemistry, particle physics, quantum physics and a little bit of paleontology.
  • All fascinating but I think nowadays I’m most interested in the things closer to home - so, the geology, and hoping there will be some biology and maybe even ecology (though from memory I don’t think there is much of this last one).
  • There’s no social science - so no human history, anthropology, economics, etc. Have to go elsewhere for that. I might listen to [[The Dawn of Everything]] next.

• [[131]]

2024-10-27

• The first book I’ve got on [[libro.fm]] is [[A Short History of Nearly Everything]] by Bill Bryson.
  • I’ve really been enjoying learning about broad, general subject matters outside of my usual areas on [[Kinnu]].
  • This appealed in that same vein. Simple overview of lots of topics.
  • I’ve read it a few times many years ago and remember thoroughly enjoying it.

• [[…]]
• Well, I’m here finally :)
  • I received my second keyboard and I installed it on the desk with [[Paramita]].
  • Typing on it feels amazing, and the workstation is now set up in a way that I think will entice me to write more often and for longer periods before context switching.
  • I find that, when I’m typing on a laptop keypad, the constant availability of the trackpad makes me context switch more often, as I react impulsively to notifications for example. When I am in this typing position, switching to a different context requires me to:
    • Reach out for the mouse, which is 30cm away.
    • Use a combination like Meta + hjkl to move to a different window using my [[window manager]]‘s shortcut, which usually means I’d be focusing to a different window that I had decided I wanted to work on (as it’s on my workspace)
    • Learn the shortcut for ‘react to last notification’, which I don’t know and I don’t intend to learn today :)
  • Now only remains the task of remembering what I want to do, which means updating my priority list and gathering an intent to follow it.

So today I want to work/play on:

• [[Agora development]]
  • Toggle for [[autopull]] in the burger menu I’ve been playing with in a branch
• [[Flancia]]
  • Zine writing
  • [[Open letter to our readers of the future]] / [[Maitreya]]
  • And leaders of course :)

I also met a new friend, [[Elena]], picked up the keyboard package and mailed out some forms, and thought about some personal matters/emotionally processed.

-> [[do]]

• I enjoyed going through it a lot actually, several things got marked done! Wow.
• It makes sense because I do follow a kind of system within my chaos, but it’s cool to see it corroborated.
• Some things I actually did; some things are no longer relevant, e.g. Twitter bot stuff (as Musk killed that, for now at least).
• Which led me to [[maybe Musk will wake up]]

Hi there! this is one of the first few livestreams I’ve done. I keep iterrating on the format. As it is now, I am recording my typing but I don’t know to which extent you can hear the music or anything I say. I need to check up the setup later, so excuse any disruption please :)

I will now [[flow]] with my friends [[bobby lyte]] and [[adriene]] :D

For more of this, check out https://anagora.org/yoga-with-x pull.

• Actual yoga is coming soon. I’ve been enjoying typing on my mechanical keyboard and playing with Lady Burup. I fixed or worked around some hardware/setup issues along the way :)
• Also did some light gardening in preparation for the winter.
• [[Recursivity]].
• No matter what, I keep coming back to [[neovim]] for editing my garden. It’s just too handy and fast. Silverbullet competes with other tabs in my browser windows, whereas [[wikivim]] is always somewhere in tmux.
• I think that’s fine, they have different strengths?
  • Although I did want to experiment with [[silverbullet attachments]] as a simple way to make the [[Agora]] more multi-media (it’s the spirit of the 90s? :))

2024-10-26

• Starting using [[libro.fm]]. For [[audiobooks]].
  • Seems great. Let’s you pick a bookshop (local or online) for some of the money to go to.
  • But, also very annoyed to discover that some audiobooks are ‘Audible Exclusives’. Meaning you can only get them on Audible.
  • What a scam. Imagine only being able to buy some books in certain bookshops.
  • libro has some resources on how to do something about it: https://blog.libro.fm/why-isnt-audiobook-available-libro-fm-what-to-do/

2024-10-25

• Back in the Agora!
  • I shipped some small usability improvements this week. I intend to do some more of these during the weekend.
  • I re-discovered [[…]] and it’s amazing, both broken and great.
  • [[Silverbullet]] cannot open it though, so the screenshot is in [[ellipsis]]

• Work has been fine.
  • It was a relatively productive week; I feel satisfied.
• I thought about [[Magnetism]], as usual. And its [[elasticity]].
  • I want to write something about [[magnets in space]], I think it could go well with that other old idea — [[monks in space]] :)
• I watched [[which came first]] (3 minutes) and it was great
• I used [[flatpak]] today.

2024-10-24

• Back in the Agora using [[Silverbullet]]!
  • It’s been working quite alright for me, although I still use [[wiki vim]] around half the time when editing I’d say.
  • I posted an update to https://github.com/silverbulletmd/silverbullet/issues/1010.

• I had a good day at work really.
  • I enjoyed typing on my new keyboard! I am looking forward actually, which is a nice motivation to go to work tomorrow again, and that in turn is nice to have as I have to go there anyway ;)
  • I may end up getting another one for writing at home though. I "knew" that I like typing on mechanical keyboards, but it took typing again in one to properly remember it :)
  • I worked until late back home even after the [[social.coop]] meeting, but that’s OK as well, I like starting the week strong.
• Then I thought about the [[Revolution]].

• [[AG]]
• called my mum for [[mother’s day]] in Argentina
• [[flancia meet]]:
  • with [[bouncepaw]]
  • [[apache2]] is making a comeback
  • [[8bitdo]] keyboard and the alternate keyboard movement, [[funky keyboards]]
  • [[keyboard wiki]]
• I’m liking my new [[8bitdo]] keyboard a lot, and now that I’ve made the programmable buttons work even more :)
  • I set one big button to lock the screen and the other to write ‘yes’ and press enter; I figured programming one to take a full action that might be dangerous in some contexts was fun and reasonable enough for what IS a big red button after all, so if you press it in front of a prompt or a chat window you should be sufficiently aware of the risk :)
  • Typing here I remember how much I like typing, in a way. Another thing I like is that it forces me away from the laptop, where the touchpad is always available. Here I have to reach for the mouse, as in the olden days, and this is a small context switch that I might be able to catch myself doing when I intended to focus on the task at hand (writing).
  • I think this might enable me to write more and in longer form, which is something I’ve been meaning to do for a while. The last long form text I wrote publicly was the [[Agora Chapter]] of the book about [[Personal Knowledge Graphs]], which was published in [[2023]].

I guess at some point once you’ve written enough you can drop the bullet points and go back to full prose, whatever difference this makes. To some extent paragraphs are a two level list hierarchy, in the sense that every sentence that follows a previous instead of beginning a new paragraph can be though to be a children to one that preceded it.

• I ran into [[Wittgenstein]] again and I thought again of reading him seriously/more fully, I have only read fragments of him so far and of course commentary to his work.
• I guess bullet points can serve as asides in longer form prose, like parentheses or dashes, but perhaps more readable for the case of writers which tend to produce many asides and meta :)

So, anyway, writing makes me feel good; it feels cathartic you could say, and also just necessary at times. Noticing that something feels good also helps oneself do that thing again, remove resistances to doing it.

Why is it that I want to write so much? It is because [[writing is an aid to memory]], and [[writing is a tool for thinking]], and for communicating of course.

• The laundry timer just went off.
• And now I’m back, after putting laundry to dry (tumble) and another load :)

What do I want to remember so much, you might ask yourself. Well, to answer that thoroughly and clearly is that I like to build [[Agoras]].

2024-10-20

• I’ve logged in to [[Fediverse]] again the last couple of days. To make a new connection and do some Restart related posting. But: already found myself scrolling aimlessly through things which though very interesting are of minimal relevance to my actual life. Might just be a phase, but, sadly I can’t spare that idle time right now.

• I’ve been cultivating a setup for logging the [[repair data]] from [[Ulverston Repair Cafe]] that, once I’ve taken a copy of the paper forms on my phone, I can then log it all digitally and get it into Restarters.net, all from my phone.

  • Now, while the bubba is napping on me, I’ll utilise that system to digitise the data from [[Ulverston Repair Cafe, October 2024]].

• [[flancian@social.coop]] https://social.coop/@flancian/113341048573756101 pull

• [[2024-10-21T19:11:38.126Z]] @[[flancia.org]]: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xu4fhdxwmrptiwfvq5ymbkxx/post/3l727q4pzcv2v

• [[2024-10-20 17:59:12+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):
  • Look, an #agora! [[2024-10-20]]

• Back!
  • Work week was alright.
  • Did some personal emotional processing during the week as well.
  • Now feeling good going into the weekend :)
• Had good meetings, also one great today with [[edumerco]].
• I reconnected with some old [[friends]] digitally and in analog space :)

2024-10-19

• Let’s dust this off…

• [[International Repair Day]] 2024 today.

  • Did a spell at [[Ulverston Repair Cafe]] popup cafe in [[Barrow]].
  • Fixed a printer (well, more just showed that it was working OK and put a fresh ink cartridge in).

• For [[Restart]] for Repair Day I worked on the global map of events, the Open Repair Alliance report, and the Open Repair Alliance dataset. Proud of all of those.

• Today is [[Maitreya]]! The 17th :)
• Work was fine actually. I biked there and back, I’m enjoying the exercise before it gets too cold.
  • Was productive in the evening from home after reuniting with [[Lady Burup]] :)
• Then I ate and did [[Flancia]].

• [[23 september]] -> [[mylesj]]

• [[Minecraft]] with [[Ishmael]] and X, enjoying it a lot! Playing in some resting periods.
• Went to the [[Zürich Coffee Festival]] with [[Sebek]] and [[Nina]]!
• [[tabs]]
• [[next action]]:
  • [[guanyin]]
    • [[9]] risk (guanyin)
    • [[7]] agora demo
    • [[5]] consent/social media replay
  • [[paramita]]
    • [[9]] zine
    • [[7]] agora ux
    • [[5]] activitypub/atproto/x/ekumen
    • [[3]] write
    • [[1]] read
• -> [[eight pomodoros]]

• [[Divorce]]
• [[Free from suffering]]!
  • Both happy and sad. But it was beautiful to see [[L]], see her shining!
• [[2063]]

2024-10-08

• At [[work]], meaning in the office, after a few days out/WFH due to disease. It’s nice to see my coworkers/have in person conversations.
  • I had a productive day at home yesterday which hopefully will translate to a productive week in-office. Let’s see :)
• No meetings after work tonight! Which is nice.
  • I’m back to using [[the time-block planner]] and it’s still great. Commitment is important.

• Continuing from [[2024-10-04]] :)
• #push [[todo]]
  • Reviewed [[go/agora/bugs]] after long and responded to issues! I want to do this more often from now on.
  • Same for [[go/agora server/bugs]] (it has lots of interesting stuff!) and [[go/agora bridge/bugs]]
• [[agora development]]:
  • I still want to make https://agor.ai work and serve a ‘default Agora’ that lists the known Agoras in the domain ("network").
  • I wanted to work on the [[plus operator]], a quite simple thing on the surface but it runs deep
  • I want to experiment with embedding images in nodes using [[Silverbullet]].
• [[flancia]] in [[pomodoros]]:
  • [[zine]]
    • 0
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5 finish?
  • [[letters]]
    • 0
      • which are the three letters I want to work on?
        • to [[WS]]
          • Thank you
          • What I will try to do forward
          • Objections -> [[objectio]]
        • to Musk (Burup chose this one while hacking just before shutting down the computer)
          • Objections
          • Thank you
          • What I will try to do forward
        • to Maitreya
          • meaning: one or more friends
            • Lex Fridman et al?
          • Thank you
          • What I will try to do forward
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5 finish/share?
• [[AG]] stayed over and it was great.
• I will now do two (planned) pomodoros to finish work for the day, in particular do some long standing expense reports. After that I will segue into the weekend :) But you could also say the weekend already started, I’m fine with the program and having a very chill day with [[Lady Burup]].
  • 0 gather all [[receipts]]
  • 1 fill details and deal with [[concur]]
  • will be flowing with [[bobby lyte]]
  • [[aeyokay]]

• Sick so I [[WFH]], but nothing serious.
• Resuming from [[2024-10-01]]:
• [[agora development]]:
  • I still want to make https://agor.ai work and serve a ‘default Agora’ that lists the known Agoras in the domain ("network").
  • I wanted to work on the [[plus operator]], a quite simple thing on the surface but it runs deep
  • I want to experiment with embedding images in nodes using [[Silverbullet]].
• [[flancia]] in [[pomodoros]]:
  • [[zine]]
    • 0
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5 finish?
  • [[letters]]
    • 0
      • which are the three letters I want to work on?
        • to [[WS]]
          • Thank you
          • What I will try to do forward
          • Objections -> [[objectio]]
        • to Musk (Burup chose this one while hacking just before shutting down the computer)
          • Objections
          • Thank you
          • What I will try to do forward
        • to Maitreya
          • meaning: one or more friends
            • Lex Fridman et al?
          • Thank you
          • What I will try to do forward
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5 finish/share?
• [[AG]] stayed over and it was great.
• I will now do two (planned) pomodoros to finish work for the day, in particular do some long standing expense reports. After that I will segue into the weekend :) But you could also say the weekend already started, I’m fine with the program and having a very chill day with [[Lady Burup]].
  • 0 gather all [[receipts]]
  • 1 fill details and deal with [[concur]]
  • will be flowing with [[bobby lyte]]
• [[ekumen]]
• [[analytical seclusion]]:
  • [[sabbatical]]
  • may 2025-july 2025? one month to start with?

• I read about [[polymers]] and [[acrylic]] a.k.a. [[PMMA]] via… the [[Cotton-Mouton Effect]] (?).
  • Also about [[Sky Pool, London]] which "was criticized as emblematic of economic inequalities in London.".
• [[Magnets]]
• [[Zine]] (enjoying it, working in [[overleaf]] with vim bindings is a pretty nice setup)
• Thought of [[Right Resolve]], [[Right Speech]], [[Right Action]], [[Right Freedom]]
• [[agora development]]:
  • [[agor.ai]] is partly fixed since yesterday (finally!) in the sense that link.agor.ai and flancia.agor.ai are back up in [[hypatia]] \o/
  • I still want to make https://agor.ai work and serve a ‘default Agora’ that lists the known Agoras in the domain ("network").
  • I fixed my [[wiki vim]] setup to allow for easy markdown editing again and things like interacting with checkboxes.
  • I wanted to work on the [[plus operator]], a quite simple thing on the surface but it runs deep
  • I want to experiment with embedding images in nodes using [[Silverbullet]].
• [[flancia]] in [[pomodoros]]:
  • [[zine]]
    • 0
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5 finish?
  • [[letters]]
    • 0
      • which are the three letters I want to work on?
        • to [[WS]]
          • Thank you
          • Objections
          • What I will try to do forward
        • to Musk (Burup chose this one while hacking just before shutting down the computer)
          • Objections
          • Thank you
          • What I will try to do forward
        • to Maitreya
          • meaning: one or more friends
          • Thank you
          • What I will try to do forward
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5 finish/share one tomorrow?
      • considering this shared (with two people to begin with) as of the week of [[2024-10-11]] :)

• read about the [[Karmapa]]
• I have this week off, will probably keep today and tomorrow off and resume work on Wednesday
• #push [[do]]
  • I crafted, and then went through, a lengthy todo list :)
    • do laundry (2x)
    • donate (2x)
    • run [[collect]] over todo items/notebooks, they’ve gotten out of control as usual :)
      • add items to this todo list or ideally to the [[root node]] for my tasks
      • maybe add images directly, although that could take time it will be less time than entering manually, and I could pipe the collection to AI at some point?
    • write
      • zine (2-4x)
      • get java [[minecraft]]
        • server url
        • I visited [[Plitnyakovo]] for the first time today on [[2024-09-30]]. Thank you [[Ishmael]]!
      • one or more of:
        • open letter to musk
        • open letter to maitreya
        • open letter to lex and sam
    • code
      • get into a code-release flow again by shipping one little change to anagora.org
      • one or more of:
        • save button
        • activitypub support
        • agora bot posts updates from the agora?
        • users post updates from the agora?
    • systems
      • fix agor.ai
        • recycle
        • make free space
        • try again

• [[flancia]]
• [[sadhana]]
• [[dhyanas]]
  • I read about the two first [[immaterial states]], very interesting.
• [[zine]]

• I’m back :)
• [[social.coop]]:
  • Updated moderation announcement
  • Review pass issue reported by edsu
• [[bobby lyte]] mentioned the importance of "the shared and collective belief and energy toward a common goal" and I liked how he put it

• [[work]] was OK.
  • tomorrow will be even better I think :)
  • it will start weirdly.
• I thought of [[tanzwerk]] and [[hardturm]] again, and of cycling through the city, thanks to the Agora/my digital garden. Maybe during the weekend?
• While using the Agora, I thought of some things:
  • It is a shame that so few different users show up in recent, BUT there are a few contributors I didn’t know about and that felt cool/interesting and I found several nodes by old friends I want to read.
  • It really should have a ‘pin’ or ‘star’ or ‘save’ button as "mvp" for storing state originating from the web client but not tied to an editor. I found some wikipedia-articles-within-the-Agora that I wanted to ‘pin’ as having been interesting, and just being able to save a subnode that says ‘flancian was here on X’ would suffice really. Like a visitors log, old web style maybe. Or just a bit in sqlite?
    • I need to find vera’s branch that took me too long to review :(
      • Better late than never? Or, well, in any case it is an inspiration.
    • I want to catch up with [[j0lms]]
• I want to do [[yoga]] tonight.
• It is 22 as I write this and I’d like to be in bed tonight by 1am.
• Also, [[Tschenresi Sadhana]].

• I’m back!
  • In the wrong location ;) [[sariputta]] has an old-style editor which adds journal entries to /journal :)
  • I’ll live with the discrepancy, they are coalesced reasonably well by the Agora in any case.
  • See also: [[2024-09-24]]

• Back in [[Flancia]]!
  • Or did we ever leave?
  • [[Mallorca]] was beautiful!
  • Thank you [[AG]] for your kindness and your beauty.
  • Reunited with [[Lady Burup]] yesterday evening.
• Today I cleaned and I worked around the house, catching up with:
  • [[Mohammed]]
  • [[UNICEF]]
  • [[Mum]]
  • [[Friends]]
    • :)
  • [[AG]]
• Today I noticed that [[37]] = [[19]] + [[18]], meaning a centered hex number plus its center-less partner.
  • So it seems like a very good packing for two hex numbers, in one figure.
• Then I [[flowed]].
  • [[Social Coop]]
  • [[Ekumen]]
  • [[KPT]] and paperwork review
• [[zine]]
• Music: [[rainbow folding]] and others
• [[37]]
  • [[yoga]]
  • [[Zelazny]]

• [[I’m back]]!
  • I spent the week in [[Stockholm]] for work.
  • Flew back to [[Zürich]] on Friday and reunited with my [[Lady Burup]], it was lovely.
  • Now writing these lines on the train to [[Paris]], where I’ll reunite with [[AG]] before we move on to some other destination for five days of further enjoyment.
  • We will reunite once more with my [[Lady Burup]] on the [[20th]] if everything goes according to plan.
  • Back to work on the [[23rd]].
• Donated to:
  • [[Medico International Schweiz]]
• [[Fediverse]]:
  • [[On the internet, nobody knows you’re old]]

• Today I finished the one week course with [[Lama Jigme Rinpoche]]. He was kind and inspiring.
• It is nearly time, I think?
  • [[Open Letter to Elon Musk]]
  • [[Open Letter to Maitreya]]
  • [[Open Letter to Moloch]]

• I’ve gotten [[paramita]] back up and running, it had broken in a variety of ways (broken nvim with a bus error, broken gammastep)
• [[Jigme Rinpoche]]

• [[master plan]] -> [[main plan]] :)
• Thank you [[Jigme Rinpoche]] and [[Dhagpo Switzerland]].
• [[Chenrezig practice]]
  • [[37 practices of Bodhisattvas]]
• [[Flancia]]
• [[Agora development]]
• [[Friends]]

• [[197]]
• [[jigme rinpoche]]:
  • [[chenrezig]]
  • [[bodhisattva]]
  • [[maitreya]]?

• [[OGM]]:
  • Jerry says:8am PT, in my usual Zoom:
  • https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4154650256?pwd=Zm5DWGRJcmFmZGtBMmI1Wkx2WUQyZz09

• Maybe things will turn out to be [[funny]] in retrospect
  • I have been told that [[Flancia]] seems to lack humour, even though it started as a well-meaning joke! I guess I lost/deprioritized that along the way…
• [[work]] has been tough since last Thursday and I realize that has made it so that I haven’t noded much here for a while.
• [[fellowship of the link]] :)
• [[2024-08-29]]: Jerry says:8am PT, in my usual Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4154650256?pwd=Zm5DWGRJcmFmZGtBMmI1Wkx2WUQyZz09
• [[storm]]

• [[entropy]]
• [[divisibility rules]]
• [[sucederá]]
• [[maitreya]]!

• [[Google IPO]] twenty years ago today
• [[zine]]
• [[AG]]
• Had lunch with [[Stapelberg]]
• I banged my right elbow hard when moving near an open window, I hope it doesn’t swell :)
• Good day overall in any case!
  • I cycled to work and back and it was great.

2024-08-18

• Chill rainy Sunday at home :)
• Spent it with [[AG]].
• Then in the afternoon [[VK]] and her boyfriend [[Sascha]] came about, it was very nice!
• [[feedback 2024]]

2024-08-17

• [[Maitreya]]!
  • Maitreya on Saturday is extra special

• [[Burup]]
  • I played the piano, I’m enjoying recording midis while practicing even if it’s sometimes cacophonic — as it sometimes isn’t :) and saving the midi seems interesting and would let me extract fragments later
• [[Fediverse]]
  • Had a conversation with [[foolishowl]]
• Wrote [[practice.py]] on a lark :)

2024-08-16

• I got here the long way around :)
  • For sure I did! Cool — back here something like… 18 hours later, at 22.
  • Yesterday night I had a wild ride restoring my preferred [[Agora editor]] to working order, and then exorcising my digital garden from a file over 100MB which I accidentally committed and made Github refuse me all service with insufficient explanation :)
    • I had to do a [[git rebase]], which didn’t work, and (re-) learn about [[git filter-repo]] and such
• [[Silverbullet]]:
  • Now running [[Silverbullet dev]] having worked around the actual trigger for the most critical part of https://github.com/silverbulletmd/silverbullet/issues/1010, which ended up being not due to garden scale only but also due to a recent change I had made to my config :)
    • Keeping an eye on the other performance issues.
    • You wouldn’t believe how much I missed having a web-based [[Agora editor]].
    • It made me think I still have to keep honest and actually offer this as a service in the [[Agora of Flancia]] — I would love to provide hosted Silverbullet for whoever wants it.
  • Thought of:
    • [[Agora demo]]
    • [[AG]]

• "I’ve seen what will happen, many a time".
• [[Work]] was alright, looking forward to tomorrow actually :)
• I spent time with:
  • [[AG]]
  • [[Lady Burup]]
• I thought of:
  • [[Avalokiteshvara]]
  • [[Maitreya]]
  • [[Tara]]
  • [[Candles]]
  • [[Magnets]] (as usual) :)
  • [[WS vision]] ;)
  • [[Flow]]

• I played the piano and played with [[Lady Burup]] :)
  • The smell of [[Petrichor]] in the balcony.
• A few days ago I learnt that [[stanines]] were/are a thing.
• [[work]] happened, ups and downs, I was a bit tired; I think I should go to bed earlier on Mondays as Tuesdays demand energy :)
• [[nostromo]] crashed again and then exhibited a [[heisenbug]] (I wrote about it on Fedi).
• some [[social.coop]] work, it made me a bit sad to revert an experiment that I thought could be positive due to spirited pushback but it’s important to respect the experience of the community
  • it’s pretty out there how much time I’ve been spending trying to keep nostromo alive — it crashes quite often, I should prioritize that
  • [[backup nostromo]]
  • then maybe I could get a replacement, or just use it to the end but try to work around the issues with more automation? because they’re hardware triggered (overheating, plus some likely adapter related issues for what is a laptop with many functions)
• some [[social.coop]] work, it made me a bit sad to revert an experiment that I thought could be positive due to spirited pushback but it’s important to respect the feedback of the community
• thought about:
  • [[forking]]
  • [[merging]]
• [[bangers]]:
  • [[banger]]
• [[silverbullet bug]] which makes it harder for me to write in the Agora :(
  • but things will hopefully get better :)

• Found [[3493]] on the way to work today, it was great.
• Then in the night I thought of [[cryptobuddhism]].

• [[Building Bridges]] then :)
  • Between [[platforms]], between [[formats]], between different resources in one [[garden]] or [[Agora]] :)
• [[donna haraway]] has interesting/surprising (to me) contents!
  • [[A Cyborg Manifesto]]
• I thought of the question of defining [[canonicity]].

• Sad morning but I think it was also cathartic.
• Then I cleaned the house, and I did practice :)
• Got back to [[Building Bridges]] after long, finally — it’s been on the backburner for a year or so, at least?
  • Will try to do a pass on it, with the occasion of also
  • Fixing formatting issues on [[Agora Chapter]] for legibility before sharing further
• I need to fix the issue that on some computers [[wiki vim]] writes journals on /journal/.md and in some others I have it set it up to /.md
• [[Flow state]]

• I read what [[NG]] wrote
• Bought shoes, which was on my todo list :)
• Bought a book gift
• Received a book gift :)
• Found [[standardgalatic]]

• I biked from [[AG]]‘s place to [[Flancia central]] in the midnight sun and it was beautiful :)
• Then I saw [[VK]], it was great!
• Then I flowed.
• Updated [[bill flancian]]

• [[zine]]

• [[zine]]:
  • [[bella burup]]
  • [[lady burup]]

• I [[whistled]]:
  • and then used [[spectroid]]
  • and played the [[piano]] :)
  • a very fun combination

• [[don’t worry eat curry]]

2024-08-03

• Now on the [[third]], early in the morning you could say :)

• [[Flancia meet]] was quiet but I enjoyed it anyway, took the time to do stuff leisurely on the laptop.
• [[Hzian]]

• I found [[burning chrome]] and I thought it could be a good Agora demo node.
  • It links to [[burning chromium]], which I started (barely) long ago and I immediately felt like continuing/fixing up :)
• [[Work]] was alright — I did what [[bobby lyte]] does and tried to do the day’s worth of work in one hour, and it sort of worked believe it or not
• I posted about the [[magnetic projector]] I made to the [[Fediverse]] :)
• I had an amazing meeting with [[Eduardo Mercovich]] about the [[Fediverse]], the [[Web]], and [[Sutty]] and the [[Agora]] and [[Confluencia]].
• I [[flowed]] :)

2024-08-01

• Today is [[National Day]] in [[Switzerland]] and I don’t work. So I plan to do some Agora :)

• Back on [[Silverbullet]] after a few days.
  • I moved my journals here also to the root of my garden, as I did with wiki vim a few days back, so you will see them at /YYYY-MM-DD.md from now on instead of at /journal/YYYY-MM-DD.md.
  • Happy to hear that [[vera]] is also using Silverbullet!
• I read criticism of the [[Gemini ad]]: https://www.npr.org/2024/07/30/nx-s1-5056201/google-olympics-ai-ad
  • I first read the article and then I watched the ad.
  • You could say the ad does miss any note worth hitting; but I did like some aspects like the dad’s voice (is it the real one, though, I wonder?) and the fact that it’s not too long.
  • It has the usual by now out-of-touch aesthetic of Google ads, which you could call [[enterprise whimsy]].
  • And it’s just… a bit nonsensical, on top of the other criticisms. Why is the dad involved at all? He comes across as lazy. If this was an ad showing how the little girl can use Gemini to help her with her writing, it would feel a lot more natural/less problematic probably. It is true that kids are going to be using generative AI to learn how to write (presumably they are already doing this), and the ad could have shown some of that instead. Maybe this was considered but lawyers didn’t want to show too young people using the technology for some reason, and we got the lazy dad as a compromise?
  • Anyway. Google ads are pretty bad on average these days IMHO, so I’m not super surprised.
• Yesterday [[2024-07-31]] in the [[Fellowship of the link]] call [[Aram]] shared a nice article he wrote as part of the [[semilink]] activity we were experimenting with: [[the internet is a series of webs]].
• [[Flancia]]:
  • I wrote on the Agora today. This is a good day :)
  • I intend to also do some [[Agora development]].
    • I fixed an issue that [[vera]] reported with transclusion in Silverbullet — interesting.
    • I wrote a script to assist in Agora maintenance, health.sh

2023-08-01

• Back on [[Silverbullet]] after a few days.
• Today is [[National Day]] in [[Switzerland]] and I don’t work. So I plan to do some Agora :)

• I read this [[Gemini ad]] criticism: https://www.npr.org/2024/07/30/nx-s1-5056201/google-olympics-ai-ad
  • I first read the article and then I watched the ad.
• [[movies]]

• I worked, it was fine — I almost didn’t as we were just returned from beautiful [[Ischia]] yesterday and Thursday is a national holiday, but in the end it was good as I made progress on several fronts and meetings were light for a Tuesday :)
• Then I did some [[social.coop]] following up on some of yesterday’s topics from the [[twg]]
• I thought of:
  • [[Magnets]] as usual ;)
    • New today, but also recurrent in a way:
      • About [[Magnets in space]]
      • About [[Magnetic computing]]
    • About [[free energy]] and [[entropy]] :)
  • By the way any of the ideas I write down, which I’m sure are old hat to any physicist and many common folk like me, are for the benefit of all beings if they ever turn out to be useful in any way; any [[patents]] are dedicated to the benefit of humanity and friends :)
  • [[Agora letters]]
    • Maybe sounds a bit better than just [[Open Letters]] for what I am trying to do — at least for me :) Because these are open letters with a particular intention? Or at least that’s a particular interesting subset of all [[open letters]] tracked in this [[Agora]] and elsewhere in the [[Internet]].

Today and yesterday I thought also of writing, in general — how much I do it and how much I don’t, how many of my thoughts seep into the ether as weak electromagnetic radiation and are only occasionally recorded. (That’s alright; with every thought "lost" we radiate some heat, we feel something, we experiment our beings and let the universe shape our consciousnesses).

For the purpose of focusing more often on writing I’ve started to think of [[Sariputta]] as my writing computer, keeping also [[Sila]] and [[Paramita]] as general purpose/development computers, and [[Nostromo]] as media centre/MIDI terminal.

2024-07-27

• In [[Ischia]]! Now for a few days. This is the first I’ve noded as days have been quite intense in [[bodyspace]] (in a nice way).

• I want to submit some poems for the [[zine]] that [[bouncepaw]] is editing by EOM, will try to work on those today from the beach. If not today, tomorrow.

• What’s one [[feeling]] you can [[own]] and consistently deliver?
• [[Search and Seizure]].
• Short [[videos]]: collapsed:: true
  • [[Contrast]]/paradox I want do X but Y is in the way
  • How am I going to do X?
  • Simple, universal to [[audience]], ideas
  • First word has to be a [[hook]] "Free" is good, "this" is bad
  • Hook has to be clear about what the conflict is and what is at the end
  • First frame has to be like title or thumbnail, high saturation and high contrast
  • [[Foreshadowing]] tells the user what gift they will get at the end
  • Rewatchable: Lists Easter eggs "Twists"?
  • Add conflict as the video goes on
  • [[But]],so But, [[therefore]]
    • South Park
  • Include a [[Why]]
  • Keep ending short but with a payoff
• Incident management game collapsed:: true
  • Rescue -> recovery, budget drops drastically
• A pilot is constantly seeking [[balance]]. collapsed:: true
  • "Redefine the fight"
  • Aviate navigate communicate
• [[Links]] should be [[titles]] worth clicking on.
• Let yourself be possessed by the web that has the [[problem]].
• [[Constraints]] [[shape]] multiple [[parts]] into one.
• "ecology is the science of understanding consequences"
• [[Plants]] for BSk shortgrass prairie. collapsed:: true
  • Pediomelum esculentum id:: 66a01c43-fa3a-4c3a-8ddf-21bf715090c5 Blue grama Crested wheat Western wheatgrass
  • Textile Onion
  • Winterfat
  • Chokecherry
  • Fringed sagewort Arrowleaf balsamroot Hawksbeard Sticky purple geranium Scarlet globemallow Sulfur-flower buckwheat Tumblemustard Western wallflower Western yarrow Rosa woodsii
  • Antelope bitterbrush Gardner saltbush Greasewood (livestock need high calcium grasses to counter) Green rabbitbrush Mountain mahogany Shadscale saltbush Shrubby cinquefoil (good for goats, bad for cattle) Silver sagebrush Wax Currant
  • Mountain snowberry Serviceberry
• “An earthquake achieves what the [[law]] promises but does not in practice maintain,” one of the survivors wrote. “The [[equality]] of all men.”
• Anytime there’s a [[block]], move back and restart the [[attack]] from a stronger [[base]].
• Getting past the [[elbow]], [[handfighting]] [[unarmed]] collapsed:: true
  • If their arms are down, [[attack]] the head. If they’re on the [[inside]], go around the [[outside]]. If their arms are up, go under for the body. If they’re narrow, go for the outsides. If they’re wide, go for the insides.
  • If they’re inside legs, they can attack legs but not so much upper body. If they’re outside, they can attack upper body but not so much legs.
• "[[time]] given away…is time you don’t [[own]]"
• Show them [[chaos]], and present an alternative of [[order]].
• [[Dormancy]] lets [[seeds]] disperse through [[time]].
• [[Distance]] gives you [[time]], Angles give you a way [[out]] or to [[flank]].
• "never sit against a [[swarm]] [keep [[moving]]]"
• John Allen Paulos on complex systems: "[[Uncertainty]] is the only certainty there is. And knowing how to live with insecurity is the only [[security]]."
• Improve [[entertainment]] first before [[ask]].
• [[Copywriting swipefile]]
• A sensory 3d map of the [[odor]].
• "it must hold the country by the [[sword]] or in [[fear]] of it"
  • "For if the vanquished has lately felt the sword, the victor may for a [[time]] carry an empty scabbard with impunity. But in the end, to rely on the scabbard alone brings more bloodshed than to have the sword always ready within."

• What’s one [[feeling]] you can [[own]] and consistently deliver?
• [[Search and Seizure]].
• Short [[videos]]: collapsed:: true
  • [[Contrast]]/paradox I want do X but Y is in the way
  • How am I going to do X?
  • Simple, universal to [[audience]], ideas
  • First word has to be a [[hook]] "Free" is good, "this" is bad
  • Hook has to be clear about what the conflict is and what is at the end
  • First frame has to be like title or thumbnail, high saturation and high contrast
  • [[Foreshadowing]] tells the user what gift they will get at the end
  • Rewatchable: Lists Easter eggs "Twists"?
  • Add conflict as the video goes on
  • [[But]],so But, [[therefore]]
    • South Park
  • Include a [[Why]]
  • Keep ending short but with a payoff
• Incident management game collapsed:: true
  • Rescue -> recovery, budget drops drastically
• A pilot is constantly seeking [[balance]]. collapsed:: true
  • "Redefine the fight"
  • Aviate navigate communicate
• [[Links]] should be [[titles]] worth clicking on.
• Let yourself be possessed by the web that has the [[problem]].
• [[Constraints]] [[shape]] multiple [[parts]] into one.
• "ecology is the science of understanding consequences"
• [[Plants]] for BSk shortgrass prairie. collapsed:: true
  • Pediomelum esculentum id:: 66a01c43-fa3a-4c3a-8ddf-21bf715090c5 Blue grama Crested wheat Western wheatgrass
  • Textile Onion
  • Winterfat
  • Chokecherry
  • Fringed sagewort Arrowleaf balsamroot Hawksbeard Sticky purple geranium Scarlet globemallow Sulfur-flower buckwheat Tumblemustard Western wallflower Western yarrow Rosa woodsii
  • Antelope bitterbrush Gardner saltbush Greasewood (livestock need high calcium grasses to counter) Green rabbitbrush Mountain mahogany Shadscale saltbush Shrubby cinquefoil (good for goats, bad for cattle) Silver sagebrush Wax Currant
  • Mountain snowberry Serviceberry
• “An earthquake achieves what the [[law]] promises but does not in practice maintain,” one of the survivors wrote. “The [[equality]] of all men.”
• Anytime there’s a [[block]], move back and restart the [[attack]] from a stronger [[base]].
• Getting past the [[elbow]], [[handfighting]] [[unarmed]] collapsed:: true
  • If their arms are down, [[attack]] the head. If they’re on the [[inside]], go around the [[outside]]. If their arms are up, go under for the body. If they’re narrow, go for the outsides. If they’re wide, go for the insides.
  • If they’re inside legs, they can attack legs but not so much upper body. If they’re outside, they can attack upper body but not so much legs.
• "[[time]] given away…is time you don’t [[own]]"
• Show them [[chaos]], and present an alternative of [[order]].
• [[Dormancy]] lets [[seeds]] disperse through [[time]].
• [[Distance]] gives you [[time]], Angles give you a way [[out]] or to [[flank]].
• "never sit against a [[swarm]] [keep [[moving]]]"
• John Allen Paulos on complex systems: "[[Uncertainty]] is the only certainty there is. And knowing how to live with insecurity is the only [[security]]."
• Improve [[entertainment]] first before [[ask]].
• [[Copywriting swipefile]]
• A sensory 3d map of the [[odor]].
• "it must hold the country by the [[sword]] or in [[fear]] of it"
  • "For if the vanquished has lately felt the sword, the victor may for a time carry an empty scabbard with impunity. But in the end, to rely on the scabbard alone brings more bloodshed than to have the sword always ready within."

• Just completed the [[shutdown]] ritual from [[Cal Newport]]‘s [[Time Block Planner]] and I think the system is totally working out for me so far (a few weeks in). Feeling happier at work and productive.
• Travel incoming! [[Ischia]].
• A friend gifted me [[This is How You Lose the Time War]].
• [[AG]] gifted me [[Dürrenmatt]]‘s [[The Physicists]]
• I thought of [[Revolutions]] after work.
  • During lunch today I read about [[anarchists of the late 19th and early 20th century]], thanks to [[voltairine de cleyre]], and I met interesting people.
  • If you read this, [[Moloch]], know this: we will defeat you for the good of humanity and our friends.

• Woke up with [[AG]], enjoyed the morning. Then I cleaned and did laundry and started packing for the trip :)
  • Also managed to lose one my earbuds while cleaning, but then I found it thanks to [[find my device]] which I didn’t know existed — it’s an option in [[bluetooth settings.]]- [[Flancia]]:
  • [[Flancia.org]]
  • Talking to [[Mohammed]] about getting formal verification about our charitable endeavours as the bank in Yemen is giving trouble/they seem to be suspicious of ill intent (which we don’t have).
  • Wrote https://flancia.org/homes pull today (I should have one it earlier, it was somewhere on my todo list — but here we are, I hope it helps).

• So it turns out that for years I have been sometimes journaling in /YYYY-MM-DD.md and sometimes in journal/YYYY-MM-DD.md, depending on how I created the entry.
  • If I press e.g. ctrl-w ctrl-w in [[vim]], I go to the daily page as configured by [[wiki vim]] — which is the later.
  • If I link [[YYYY-MM-DD]] in the past, I usually will have a journal already, and wiki vim will redirect there.
  • If I link [[YYYY-MM-DD]] in the future, though, I will not have a journal yet, so the file will be created as a "common node", outside of journals.
  • I thought I had moved to a ‘flat space’ with everything including journals in the [[root of my garden]], but apparently that didn’t happen yet :)

• [[agora development]]:
  • Fix some quirks?
    • Take e.g. [[2024-07-20]]:
      • Showing the whole path for a subnode was a good idea I think, it:
        • Makes it clear this is a filesystem-like thing, some users will immediately get the idea
        • Disambiguates between subnodes for free
        • Made it so that the header is now ‘user contributed ‘, I think I like it.
        • Also took the chance to add tooltips/make the UX more intuitive by adjusting where each part of the header links to.
    • Take e.g. [[zine]]
      • It should transclude the whole of [[agua para los sedientos]], meaning the push should work.
• I intend to make it to [[Flancia Meet]] around 10AM UTC today.
• [[zine]]
• [[agora]]
  • I thought about 7:
    • [[7 presidents]]
    • [[7 ceos]]
    • [[7 revolutions]]
    • [[7 good leaders]]
    • [[Gloria]]
• [[AG]] told me about [[Arthur Koestler]]
• We swam in [[Letten]] :)
• Listening to [[Sam Harris]] with [[Christof Hoch]]. Interesting, they had a "sidebar" conversation I’d love to comment on among other things.
• I read a bit about the life of [[Muhammed]] and his wives, like [[Aisha]].
• I read about [[Thalassemia]]
• [[Bryce Huebner]]
• [[LM Studio]]
• [[skreutzer]]
• [[sensecraft]]
• [[agora development]]:
  • Fix some quirks?
    • Take e.g. [[2024-07-20]]:
      • Showing the whole path for a subnode was a good idea I think, it:
        • Makes it clear this is a filesystem-like thing, some users will immediately get the idea
        • Disambiguates between subnodes for free
        • Made it so that the header is now ‘user contributed ‘, I think I like it.
        • Also took the chance to add tooltips/make the UX more intuitive by adjusting where each part of the header links to.
    • Take e.g. [[zine]]
      • It should transclude the whole of [[agua para los sedientos]], meaning the push should work.
• I intend to make it to [[Flancia Meet]] around 10AM UTC today.

• [[19]] is [[Right Freedom]] in the [[pattern language]] I’ve been working on.
• [[Wayland]]:
  • [[gammastep]] is the new [[redshift]]:
  • [[gammastep -O 4000]] to cut to the chase and go a nice night reddish
  • [[gammastep -O 1000]] to go to the minimum supported temperature, which is essentially as red as it gets
  • Those are [[Kelvin]].
• [[Open Letters]]:
  • [[Open Letter to Avalokiteshvara]]
  • [[Open Letter to Maitreya]]
  • [[Open Letter to Tara]]
  • [[Open Letter to Moloch]]

• Day 17 is here!
  • [[17]] is [[Maitreya]] in the [[Flancia pattern language]]:)
  • [[7]] is [[Avalokiteshvara]].
  • So you could say today is a pretty great date.
• [[2024-07-16]]