Learning to tell stories by telling one
My latest attempt at storytelling - presenting Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche's influence on American Buddhism using a top-down camera, printed photos, and accepting that anything I said would be inadequate.
Discipline is walking back to lock your phone in the car
In my current two phone experiment, my secondary phone number is attached to my flip phone and I have a smartphone with my main phone number for everything else: Spotify, Maps, Internet, banking, etc. I keep intending to leave the smartphone and AirPods in my car when I go into
YouTube Music Seems Shady
I love Yasiin Bey's album The Ecstatic. I'm considering switching from Spotify to YouTube music, so I signed into YouTube music and looked around for some music I like. It looks like people take albums that don't exist on YouTube and post them there
From iPhone to Flip Phone to 2 Phones to?
author's note... I prefer the term I made up: "simple-phone" over the common: "dumb phone." So that's what I'll be using. I started wrestling my attention back from smartphones in 2022, and I'm tracking how that goes. I
digiKam for the win!
Open source photo management is better than Apple Photos
Life is the event
“People see me and be like: ‘What’s the event?’ Today. Life is the event.” - Yassin Bey from The Guardian I rarely dress well, but have always admired Yasiin's style.
One way to help in this new dark age
In Winter 2024, I went on a sitting meditation retreat. It was a week of stillness, routine, and letting go of habitual thoughts. When I was traveling home from the retreat I had a strong sense of wanting to shift my life/work/career from mostly coding by myself toward
I finally forgot my age
Today is my birthday, and I finally forgot how old I am. Forgetting my age is not a warning sign - it's a relief. For most of my life I have kept too close a watch on that number, and measured my accomplishments against it, often disappointed in
Choosing Guitar Again
I started playing electric guitar when I was 12. But, I haven't played in about 20 years. I grew to have an adversarial relationship with the instrument. I wasn't getting better, I kept writing the same song in different ways, and didn't see a