Notes in 2021

  • You know a movie has amazing songs when you have 4 favourite songs, none of which is “We don’t talk about about Bru-no, no, no, no” but that’s still the one that sticks in your head. Disney’s Encanto is lovely.

  • Whenever you have the opportunity to throw silly into the world, do it. –Russel Howard, Lubricant

  • Captive maternals by Dr. Joy James

  • All Metaverses are attempts to escape regulation.

  • In this conversation with another white person, am I doing anything to reduce the amount of racism that people of colour are facing?

  • Sure, but why is breakfast the most important meal of the day?

  • As long as you’re still here, you matter. What you do matters.

  • Double-bill recommendation: I Care A Lot (2020) and Britney vs Spears.

  • Every day I play the fun game of, “Am I autistic or Finnish?”

  • I have no interest in speaking of people I have no interest in speaking to.

  • I’m a man with too many chips on my shoulders and I need to unburden myself.

  • You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time. –Angela Davis

  • It’s interesting to note that I have at least 15 different devices in my house connected to the internet, whilst some people have none.

  • I find it best, with both life and babies, to be prepared for a bit of shit.

  • That funny moment when you order your son a new phone and instead receive Germoloids Suppositories. Dafuq?

  • Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift…that’s why they call it present. –Master Oogway, Kung Fu Panda

  • It saddens me to see so many people eager to forget the lessons they learned last year.

  • The exponential impacts of being wrong compounds with time, so it’s in my interest to be wrong as much as possible, as soon as possible.

  • Could Hawking radiation allow us to preserve information from the death of our universe?

  • To the universe, a kiss is nothing, to me, a brief moment of your time is everything.

  • In the vast indifference of this universe, the existence of all my ancestors, all of me, and all of my descents is a fraction of a small second. And in my smallness I get to witness all the beauty and rage that is humanity, I get to live in it, with it.

  • How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks. –Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Nights (1935)

  • Don’t work harder or smarter, work less. Build systems which allow people to to work less.

  • Don’t use legality as a guide to morality: Slavery was legal.

  • You learn from the part of the story you focus on. –Hannah Gadsby

  • Nothing happens next. This is it.

  • Testing Notes to Twitter integration.

  • Is it possible to dismantle a system while operating within its parameters? Can I?

  • I am the product of actions compounded.

  • Always take the time to learn someone’s name, and how to say it. They deserve that much.

  • Be careful of how much poison you throw in your own well.

  • Meet the expectations you set in visual design with your semantics and behaviors. –https://inclusive-components.design/tabbed-interfaces/

  • Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly, because doing it poorly is better than not doing it.

  • The axe forgets, but the tree remembers.

  • You can’t get closure on feelings when you have no boundaries in which to contain them.

  • Take everything and nothing seriously.

  • I was ignorant as recently as yesterday.

  • You build everything three times. Once to understand the problem. Once to understand the solution. And once to do it properly.

  • Älskling, vi ska alla en gång dö.

  • The goal is to be a little less wrong every day –Martin Molin

  • Words describe boundaries, but it’s our actions that maintain them. –CaptainAwkward

  • Look, if you can’t admit to, at least, yourself that you were ignorant, than you can never not be.

  • The word “unambiguous” is very ambiguous.

  • Everyone is always living in the Present Past.

  • If you want to test whether something is harmful to girls, try doing it to boys instead and see how offended everyone gets. –tumblr

  • In you, there’s a ghost of me I no longer recognise.

  • I am a future ancestor.

  • It’s not the attention economy, it’s the distraction economy.

  • Welcome to no-place.

  • The recipe for change: Imagination, stories (names and language), and attention.

  • What is my perception of time, place, self, and community?

  • I disagree with the second brain paradigm because it’s solving the wrong problems. I don’t want something that works “like” my brain, I want something which can be customised to augment mine in ways it couldn’t on its own.

  • In discussions, always go from low-to-high status. In setting examples, go from high-to-low.

  • Welcome to the unintended consequences of your dis- and misinformed actions.