Good advice in trying times
Hit and Miss #462
Hi! A great week / weekend with old friends, for which I’m really grateful given how things’ve been these past few weeks. (Highlights: farm! hike! BBQ! ice cream! more ice cream!!) But even time with the best people sometimes isn’t enough, and I’m still feeling thoroughly worn out. Earlier to bed tonight, I hope, and we’ll see what tomorrow brings.
Thank you for reading along, even as my opening note each week likely reads much the same: “struggling, feeling meh, but muddling through”. Showing up here is one of those routines that does something for me, enrichment for a body that may otherwise melt. Knowing you’re here makes it that much easier to show up. Thank you.
Mined the bookmark database for a few links on “life despite feelings of meh”:
- Robin Rendle, ”The Brink”: “I always forget this so here’s a reminder for the future: books are always the answer when things suck.”
- Ursula K. Le Guin via Austin Kleon, “The ideal routine”: three hours to “make dinner and eat it”, yes! (For more wisdom from Le Guin, her New Yorker profile is excellent, as is the Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin documentary.)
- Jonnie Hallman, “A home, a kitchen, and a woodshop”: “Rather than waiting for the right time to take a class or go somewhere and end up only thinking about it, I need to just book the class or trip and work the rest of my life around it.” (Reading this post, three-ish years ago, was what prompted me to book a woodworking class. I’m so grateful for everything woodworking has brought me since then.)
- Erin Kissane with the first in a new series on knowledge in networks.
- As journalists become political targets, newsrooms need (cyber)security support.
- It’s been hot the last few weeks, not least in Europe, which suffered through a terrible heatwave. Doug Muir collects some arguments around air conditioning.
- John Gruber gathered more remembrances of Om Malik, and shared a few new ones.
All the best for the week ahead!
Lucas