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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
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Open source photo management is better than Apple Photos
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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
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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
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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