Gazing at the night sky, I try to let go of the shapes that I know. Dippers, and hunters, and heroes — bears, sisters, and swans.
I try to relax my focus and invite the night to shape itself.
Without the shapes, the stories can defy words. They are a tale of the moment that cannot be told, only...
So much is going on out there. Often, it is completely overwhelming these days. Too much. Too fast. Too intense. I honestly cannot keep up anymore.
Am I getting older? Sure. But, I don’t think that is why it can be too much to bear. I think the world is just too much right now. Too much to proce...
Cold Readings — you either love them or you hate them.
You have very little insight into the script. You don’t know how the scene is going to resolve, let alone the entire story. In a way, it can be scarier than improv because unlike improv there can be a wrong choice that you’ll need to go back a...
I have been avoiding writing about AI (Artificial Intelligence) and Machine Learning (ML) in audiobooks so far, but with the changes currently underway, not talking about it is no longer an option.
We’ve seen it happen in movies, so we have expected it to come to audiobooks for quite some time: de...
An unpleasant churning feeling — that is the feeling I am left with after spending time on social media recently. That feeling is getting worse, but I don’t think the social media content is getting any more challenging per se.
Maybe I have just reached my own personal level of maximum toxicity?
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Often, I take a quiet hour or so out of my day, and walk a loop up and behind the campus or down to the Connecticut River and back home. And it can be amazing to do this in silence.
My body starts off arrhythmically stumbling out the door and dodging a few cars. but, relatively quickly a pattern s...
Things are definitely changing a bit faster than I expected. And, it is easiest to see these changes if I look as far outside my typical day-to-day tech usage as I can. Once I do, I find things like this Tom Scott video…
I am a bit older than Tom. And, I do remember everything that he mentions...
Because I have been keeping a journal electronically for so long, I standardized on plain text files. After all, just about everything can read plain text (txt) files.
At one of my first programming jobs, I was then required to use Vim, and once I got the hang of it, it became my prefered way to...
She’s asleep in the next room, just like the old days. My daughter is curled up in a pile of blankets while I type away as quietly as I can manage, hoping to not disturb her. She came out from Boston to check on me. A bit of a role reversal. But the help is welcome nonetheless.
It was often in the...
The hardest time of year in New England for me are the weeks before the weeks between winter and spring. Not quite time for mud season but with the depth of the winter cold definitely already passed. The ground still hard, the ice still frozen in layers — not really arctic ice cores, but as close as...
I may never know what I knew, or when I knew it.
In truth, I did have death on my mind. I don’t think this was a true morbidity of thought. It was more the presence of a passing made more immanent through a current presentation of fragility.
The phrase “death is in the air” does bear examinati...
On February 14, 2010, she left this world for the next. It’s 13 years later and I think I am only now really coming to terms with it.
Loss has a weight, solid and unmoving. It lodges itself tightly, unshiftingly inside me. In a place that feels to be between breath and sadness; so large, that I...
What is our bebop?
An odd sounding question that only really makes sense once you have listened to The Day The Music Stopped an episode from the podcast One Year, that I heard in my 99% Invisible feed.
It goes deep into a story of musicians dealing with technological changes that they felt w...
I like to mono-task, and I like to do it with focus and intention. In my opinion, multitasking is highly overrated. I am never as effective with a divided mind as I am when I can focus singularly.
One of the hardest parts of this for me to manage is distraction. Something comes up that should just...
PostADay seems to be working for me and I am really trying to figure out why. On the face of it, promising to do A Post A Day does not seem all that different from doing Morning Pages but in the doing of things, they don’t really feel the same at all.
That could, at least in part, be due to expe...
