Notes in 2020

  • The materials around me, don’t limit my mind but they limit what I can make.

  • Constrained within languages themselves, lies our abilities to transform this world.

  • People used to be big cogs in a small wheel, now we’re lucky (or are we?) to be a small cog in a big wheel.

  • England is the USA of Europe.

  • What if instead of thinking there’s no “I” in “Team”, we should be reminding ourselves that there’s no “Community” without “U”?

  • What does my self-care look like?

  • Zero Calorie Mince Pie Flavour Syrup does not instil me with any confidence that it will taste like anything but Liquid Awful.

  • The only known species clever enough to predict and prevent its own extinction, but we were too busy arguing about whether it was happening or not.

  • I need to create my own Giphy set, featuring me and my particular expressions.

  • It takes a special kind of masochistic to build a 1000-piece jigsaw which has no motif.

  • In a world of, “move fast and break things,” I want to move slowly. (see Reboot haha)

  • Proportional counter-impact: Apologising isn’t enough, and you usually do that badly anyway.

  • I wish the lessons we learned, didn’t come at such a high price.

  • Every facet of your life is political, whether you engage with it or not. Black Trans Disabled lives matter. #a11y matters.

  • Eventually, every day will be an anniversary.

  • Bureaucracy lives forever, a.k.a, why railroads are the width of two horse asses.

  • As Elon Musk chuckles his way through a live demo of pigs with neural implants, I wonder, “Are we amongst the last generations of Homo Sapiens that could have prevented this?”

  • Call me old fashioned but I like my cake to look like cake.

  • I’m beginning to suspect that me liking oatmeal porridge with nothing but salt is weird.

  • It’s ableist and ignorant to think that you can “empathise” with people whose lived experiences you haven’t lived. You’re not that good at imagining what it’s like to be someone else.

  • You used to have to work a lot harder (exploit more people) to become immortalised.

  • Many of you aren’t forced to explain yourself daily in your third language, and it shows.

  • In theory, theory and practice are the same. But in practice, they’re different.

  • I guess I’m trying to create a continuous, somewhat organised sense of selves.

  • Morning Tide by Poets of the Fall

  • Tear down the racist statues. But don’t forget to teach present and future generations about the atrocities they depicted and how we once worshiped those colonisers.

  • Turns out, “Yes,” I should be rinsing my rice before cooking it 🤦

  • Am I fun?

  • I’m a blip in the timeline of the universe.

  • They say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time. With technology, it’s possible to die a third time, when the API you built stops working.

  • I just saw the colour Quetzal Green, I’m in love.

  • The problem with technology is that we’ve placed in science as if that’s the problem we’re solving. Technology doesn’t belong there any more than it belongs in philosophy, anthropology, or psychology.

  • Eat the rich. By which I mean, tax the shit out of Jeffrey Bezos before he comes a trillionare.

  • The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves become the truths we live by.

  • This problem will have its place too.

  • There’s few things as bad as mediocre white men with good intentions.

  • You’re so brave, he said to her, whilst not being brave himself.

  • Silence; giving you room to listen, stillness; giving you room to feel and spaciousness; just giving you room

  • Life is a continued school, except you’re now responsible for choosing your teachers (family, friends, lovers, etc)

  • My work is only activism because of the context of the world we live in.

  • This is not fine. #blacklivesmatter

  • Take that sadness for the privilege you had, and let it transform your complacency into action.

  • I change my mind when presented with new information.

  • The greatest sources of our suffering are the lies we tell ourselves

  • These times weren’t unprecedented, you just weren’t paying attention

  • Design is the process of intentionally creating something while simultaneously considering its objective (purpose), function, economics, sociocultural factors, and aesthetics.

  • You can’t truly call yourself “peaceful” unless you’re capable of great violence. If you’re not capable of violence, you’re not peaceful, you’re harmless.

  • Stop thinking so much. You’re breaking your own heart.

  • Looking back doesn’t mean “turning around”, you’re not going backwards, it means getting your bearings and making sure you’re still heading in the right direction

  • In much of my work, I’m simply making models of my inner life

  • What if I built a company around the idea that the expected amount of productivity was what disabled people could do?

  • And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul. –John Muir

  • Capitalism isn’t a sustainable economic model. What would be?

  • “‘Amateur.’ You say that as if it was a dirty word or something, but ‘amateur’ comes from the Latin word ‘amare,’ which means love, love. To do things for the love of it.” –Rodrigo, Mozart in the Jungle

  • As a white guy, I need to walk the path of most resistance to unlearn my entitlements

  • Pseudo wisdom

  • There’s incredible value in stories, which is why I ought not to tell others, they are theirs to hold or release

  • The same people who love to talk about how we should get out of our comfort zone to learn, don’t seem that keen on being uncomfortable to unlearn racism.

  • It’s easy enough for Marcus Aurelius to be a fucking stoic, he was the god damn emperor of Rome. I’m just a guy from Finland.

  • Diaspora. I woke up with that word in my head and had to look up if it was real

  • This note was made from my phone

  • It’s alive!