Study

This is where I write, about my reading and more, where I cultivate ideas. Rather than a neat list of articles, think of this as a scattered collection of notes. This is public thinking via the best medium: writing.

  1. Back to… normal? (back to links)

    Hit and Miss #409

    6 July 2025

  2. Deeply grateful

    Hit and Miss #408

    29 June 2025

  3. Comfort in community

    Hit and Miss #407

    22 June 2025

  4. Fairalysis paralysis

    Hit and Miss #406

    15 June 2025

  5. Life as good as a cat’s

    Hit and Miss #405

    8 June 2025

  6. (🚲 > 👟) < 🍕

    Hit and Miss #403

    25 May 2025

  7. May your week smell like beautiful flowers

    Hit and Miss #402

    18 May 2025

  8. Got energy, got mood, got links

    Hit and Miss #401

    11 May 2025

  9. Newsletter anniversaries are for living fully

    Hit and Miss #400

    4 May 2025

  10. New ways to understand New Ways to Bus

    Hit and Miss #399

    27 April 2025

  11. “Prompt Builders”

    Hit and Miss #398

    20 April 2025

  12. National interest

    Hit and Miss #397

    13 April 2025

  13. Having opinions!! (also government machinery, uncertainty, and modular housing)

    Hit and Miss #396

    6 April 2025

  14. Facing backward has its charms

    Hit and Miss #395

    30 March 2025

  15. Bring on the SPRING

    Hit and Miss #394

    23 March 2025

  16. Oh, for a greenhouse house

    Hit and Miss #393

    16 March 2025

  17. Reading, public service reform, diagetic theme songs

    Hit and Miss #392

    9 March 2025

  18. Burning, 18F, and change

    Hit and Miss #391

    2 March 2025

  19. 18F worked in the open

    Which, thankfully, enables its work to live on

    2 March 2025

  20. Try carpolling

    Hit and Miss #390

    23 February 2025

  21. Shovelling the snowbanks

    Hit and Miss #389

    16 February 2025

  22. Hair of the dog

    Hit and Miss #388

    9 February 2025

  23. “Brace for impact”

    Hit and Miss #387

    2 February 2025

  24. Paying attention

    Hit and Miss #386

    26 January 2025

  25. Government innovation with TREES

    Hit and Miss #385

    19 January 2025

  26. Mercurial January

    Hit and Miss #384

    12 January 2025

  27. “Finish”

    Hit and Miss #383

    5 January 2025

  28. Some books from 2024

    Hit and Miss #382

    29 December 2024

  29. No tinsel for you!

    Hit and Miss #381

    22 December 2024

  30. “Song for a Winter’s Night”

    Hit and Miss #380

    15 December 2024

  31. Doing hard things, together

    Hit and Miss #379

    8 December 2024

  32. Deferred maintenance

    Hit and Miss #378

    1 December 2024

  33. Hard week, good weekend—snow’s coming

    Hit and Miss #377

    24 November 2024

  34. November media diet

    Hit and Miss #376

    17 November 2024

  35. Disappointed, but not surprised

    Hit and Miss #375

    10 November 2024

  36. Highs bring lows (but more highs incoming!)

    Hit and Miss #374

    3 November 2024

  37. Friendship’s sunshine

    Hit and Miss #373

    27 October 2024

  38. Categorized (try) todo lists

    Hit and Miss #372

    20 October 2024

  39. Humanity and turkey

    Hit and Miss #371

    13 October 2024

  40. Walking LeBreton

    Hit and Miss #370

    6 October 2024

  41. Walking, even after a while

    Hit and Miss #369

    29 September 2024

  42. A place to think

    Hit and Miss #368

    22 September 2024

  43. Maintenance, houses, and stuff

    Hit and Miss #367

    15 September 2024

  44. Gloom and the antidote to worry

    Hit and Miss #366

    8 September 2024

  45. Nearly fall vacation reading

    Hit and Miss #365

    1 September 2024

  46. SQL, community, and cool stuff

    Hit and Miss #364

    25 August 2024

  47. Links on anarchism, social media, and other joys

    Hit and Miss #363

    18 August 2024

  48. Usable (legible!) for computers

    Hit and Miss #362

    11 August 2024

  49. Good spreadsheets

    Spreadsheetin’: making data usable for computers

    6 August 2024

  50. Fuzzy conversation feelings

    Hit and Miss #361

    4 August 2024

  51. Cutting back to grow more

    Hit and Miss #360

    28 July 2024

  52. Time outside, time well spent

    Hit and Miss #359

    21 July 2024

  53. An hour writing this newsletter

    Hit and Miss #358

    14 July 2024

  54. Eat your vegetables!

    Hit and Miss #357

    7 July 2024

  55. Human-sized places

    Hit and Miss #356

    30 June 2024

  56. Mostly complete

    Hit and Miss #355

    23 June 2024

  57. Sharing in abundance

    Hit and Miss #354

    16 June 2024

  58. Outdoor meals and Home Depot hauls

    Hit and Miss #353

    9 June 2024

  59. Facing west

    Hit and Miss #352

    2 June 2024

  60. Running back from Italy

    Hit and Miss #351

    26 May 2024

  61. Eat, sleep, rest, repeat

    Hit and Miss #350

    19 May 2024

  62. Digital reading lessgoooo

    Hit and Miss #349

    12 May 2024

  63. “Frozen in an uncomfortable slouch”

    Hit and Miss #348

    5 May 2024

  64. Grab bag

    Hit and Miss #347

    28 April 2024

  65. Clean the tabs, share the links

    Hit and Miss #346

    21 April 2024

  66. Books abound

    Hit and Miss #345

    14 April 2024

  67. Endless Saturdays

    Hit and Miss #344

    7 April 2024

  68. First quarter updates

    Hit and Miss #343

    31 March 2024

  69. The usual moves

    Hit and Miss #342

    24 March 2024

  70. Continuing themes

    Hit and Miss #341

    17 March 2024

  71. Blackbirds are back

    Hit and Miss #340

    10 March 2024

  72. Sure, winter, see ya later

    Hit and Miss #339

    3 March 2024

  73. How it goes these days

    Hit and Miss #338

    25 February 2024

  74. Love and friendship (and data and government)

    Hit and Miss #337

    18 February 2024

  75. Wintry neighbours

    Hit and Miss #332

    14 January 2024

  76. Benchin’, cattin’, linkin’

    Hit and Miss #331

    7 January 2024

  77. So, we made it

    Hit and Miss #330

    31 December 2023

  78. Another year’s books

    Hit and Miss #329

    24 December 2023

  79. omg me too

    Hit and Miss #328

    17 December 2023

  80. Hoorah for “blank time”

    Hit and Miss #327

    10 December 2023

  81. Bring on the winter of (inter)dependence

    Hit and Miss #326

    3 December 2023

  82. Independent living depends on a healthy land

    Hit and Miss #325

    26 November 2023

  83. Responding to change (links on)

    Hit and Miss #324

    19 November 2023

  84. Change for thee, but not for me?

    Hit and Miss #323

    12 November 2023

  85. Home from Japan

    Hit and Miss #316

    24 September 2023

  86. Living the principles

    Hit and Miss #300

    4 June 2023

  87. Links on data, exploitation, and hunkering down

    Hit and Miss #285

    19 February 2023

  88. Holding on

    Hit and Miss #284

    12 February 2023

  89. Existing in melancholy

    Hit and Miss #283

    5 February 2023

  90. Snowy brain

    Hit and Miss #282

    29 January 2023

  91. Links on recordkeeping and more

    Hit and Miss #281

    22 January 2023

  92. Living by the clock, by the light

    Hit and Miss #280

    15 January 2023

  93. More rest

    Hit and Miss #279

    8 January 2023

  94. 2022 to 2023

    Hit and Miss #278

    1 January 2023

  95. 2022 reads

    Hit and Miss #277

    25 December 2022

  96. Passing the baton

    Hit and Miss #276

    18 December 2022

  97. Assurance

    Hit and Miss #275

    11 December 2022

  98. See also

    Hit and Miss #274

    4 December 2022

  99. Transcripting

    Hit and Miss #273

    27 November 2022

  100. Extremely online

    Hit and Miss #272

    20 November 2022

  101. Promises to self

    Hit and Miss #271

    13 November 2022

  102. Constitutional unconstitutionalism

    Hit and Miss #270

    6 November 2022

  103. Crises abound

    Hit and Miss #269

    30 October 2022

  104. Convo dump

    Hit and Miss #268

    23 October 2022

  105. Serious links™ on work

    Hit and Miss #267

    16 October 2022

  106. Public delivery

    Hit and Miss #266

    9 October 2022

  107. Calls continue

    Hit and Miss #265

    2 October 2022

  108. Work, birds, tech, munipoli

    Hit and Miss #264

    25 September 2022

  109. Technicalities

    Hit and Miss #263

    18 September 2022

  110. Five years!? A thank you

    Hit and Miss #262

    11 September 2022

  111. Hit and Miss fifth anniversary data analysis

    Because aside from writing a weekly newsletter, my hobbies include analysing data, especially my own

    11 September 2022

  112. Holding pattern

    Hit and Miss #261

    4 September 2022

  113. Learning in crisis

    Hit and Miss #260

    28 August 2022

  114. Just the links

    Hit and Miss #259

    21 August 2022

  115. A shout to the wind

    Hit and Miss #258

    14 August 2022

  116. Hot brain links

    Hit and Miss #257

    7 August 2022

  117. Toward an indie web(site)

    Roadmap (ish—I’m not a PM) of changes to make this site more IndieWeb

    1 August 2022

  118. Malleable words

    Hit and Miss #256

    31 July 2022

  119. Welcome to the party, pal

    Hit and Miss #255

    24 July 2022

  120. Slow links

    Hit and Miss #254

    17 July 2022

  121. Systems

    Hit and Miss #253

    10 July 2022

  122. Broken social scene—wait, I mean, contract

    Hit and Miss #252

    3 July 2022

  123. Internalized stress

    Hit and Miss #251

    26 June 2022

  124. Decommissioned

    Hit and Miss #250

    19 June 2022

  125. Half caff

    Hit and Miss #249

    12 June 2022

  126. Financialized nesting dolls

    Hit and Miss #248

    5 June 2022

  127. Busy rest

    Hit and Miss #247

    29 May 2022

  128. Climate unpredictability

    Hit and Miss #246

    22 May 2022

  129. L’aride follie del viver mio

    Hit and Miss #245

    15 May 2022

  130. Sunny springtime links

    Hit and Miss #244

    8 May 2022

  131. Anniversary treat

    Hit and Miss #243

    1 May 2022

  132. Forces for good

    Hit and Miss #242

    24 April 2022

  133. Abundant, virtuous futures

    Hit and Miss #241

    17 April 2022

  134. April again

    Hit and Miss #240

    10 April 2022

  135. Spring (tab) cleaning

    Hit and Miss #239

    3 April 2022

  136. Links on ambition, resilient building, and more

    Hit and Miss #238

    27 March 2022

  137. Doing our parts

    Hit and Miss #237

    20 March 2022

  138. Seeking beautiful moments

    Hit and Miss #236

    13 March 2022

  139. Chase the sun (redux)

    Hit and Miss #235

    6 March 2022

  140. War in real-time, in all its ugliness

    Hit and Miss #234

    27 February 2022

  141. Goodbye (?) to the occupiers

    Hit and Miss #233

    20 February 2022

  142. Savouring silence

    Hit and Miss #232

    13 February 2022

  143. Acoustic assaults

    Hit and Miss #231

    6 February 2022

  144. Ursula Franklin on silence

    Excerpts from “Silence and the Notion of the Commons”

    6 February 2022

  145. Occupied

    Hit and Miss #230

    30 January 2022

  146. Playing for team public

    Hit and Miss #229

    23 January 2022

  147. Where have the snow days gone

    Hit and Miss #228

    16 January 2022

  148. Melancholy and drama, but peace

    Hit and Miss #227

    9 January 2022

  149. Digging roots

    Hit and Miss #226

    2 January 2022

  150. A few books feed us well

    Hit and Miss #225

    26 December 2021

  151. Staring down the barrel, at least the memes are good

    Hit and Miss #224

    19 December 2021

  152. Fragments

    Hit and Miss #223

    12 December 2021

  153. What we lose

    Hit and Miss #222

    5 December 2021

  154. Outrunning the food coma

    Hit and Miss #221

    28 November 2021

  155. Stories within stories

    Hit and Miss #220

    21 November 2021

  156. Silent commemoration

    Hit and Miss #219

    14 November 2021

  157. One week down

    Hit and Miss #218

    7 November 2021

  158. Surviving November

    Hit and Miss #217

    31 October 2021

  159. Pandemic movie weekends

    Feel-good movies (mostly) to get through a pandemic

    31 October 2021

  160. Registering intent

    Hit and Miss #216

    24 October 2021

  161. Leaves pass to soil

    Hit and Miss #215

    17 October 2021

  162. A brief rom-com review

    Hit and Miss #214

    10 October 2021

  163. Truer histories

    Hit and Miss #213

    3 October 2021

  164. Star Trek days

    Hit and Miss #212

    26 September 2021

  165. Paths (not) taken

    Hit and Miss #211

    19 September 2021

  166. Little reading

    Hit and Miss #210

    12 September 2021

  167. September, you’re finally here

    Hit and Miss #209

    5 September 2021

  168. Reading and movies

    Hit and Miss #208

    29 August 2021

  169. August free fall

    Hit and Miss #207

    22 August 2021

  170. Democratic event(s)

    Hit and Miss #206

    15 August 2021

  171. Let’s get nerdy

    Hit and Miss #205

    8 August 2021

  172. Cool sunsets

    Hit and Miss #204

    1 August 2021

  173. Parables

    Hit and Miss #203

    25 July 2021

  174. Boredom, boiling frogs, and miscellany

    Hit and Miss #202

    18 July 2021

  175. Summer dreaming

    Hit and Miss #201

    11 July 2021

  176. “You give me life”

    Hit and Miss #200

    4 July 2021

  177. Loading

    Hit and Miss #199

    27 June 2021

  178. Cooking, staying hungry

    Hit and Miss #198

    20 June 2021

  179. Responding to violence

    Hit and Miss #197

    13 June 2021

  180. Doors Open (online)

    Hit and Miss #196

    6 June 2021

  181. 215 children

    Hit and Miss #195

    30 May 2021

  182. What’s on the mind

    Hit and Miss #194

    23 May 2021

  183. Lilacs

    Hit and Miss #193

    16 May 2021

  184. The world is cool

    Hit and Miss #192

    9 May 2021

  185. Anniversaries

    Hit and Miss #191

    2 May 2021

  186. To what grounds us

    Hit and Miss #190

    25 April 2021

  187. Furious, heartbroken—but not surprised

    Hit and Miss #189

    18 April 2021

  188. Daydream believer

    Hit and Miss #188

    11 April 2021

  189. Sunshine escape

    Hit and Miss #187

    4 April 2021

  190. Rainy day people

    Hit and Miss #186

    28 March 2021

  191. Spring—change, or not

    Hit and Miss #185

    21 March 2021

  192. On we go

    Hit and Miss #184

    14 March 2021

  193. Reporting thoughtfully

    Hit and Miss #183

    7 March 2021

  194. Keeping it light

    Hit and Miss #182

    28 February 2021

  195. Close to home

    Hit and Miss #181

    21 February 2021

  196. Another day older, closer to the grave

    Hit and Miss #180

    14 February 2021

  197. Chase the sun

    Hit and Miss #179

    7 February 2021

  198. Coding by any other name

    Hit and Miss #178

    31 January 2021

  199. Gettin’ sauced

    Hit and Miss #177

    24 January 2021

  200. Working (again)

    Hit and Miss #176

    17 January 2021

  201. This week in anti-democracy…

    Hit and Miss #175

    10 January 2021

  202. Zoom zoom

    Hit and Miss #174

    3 January 2021

  203. Revisiting

    Hit and Miss #173

    27 December 2020

  204. Five books for the year

    Hit and Miss #172

    20 December 2020

  205. Ugh, algorithms

    Hit and Miss #171

    13 December 2020

  206. PolySeSouvient

    Hit and Miss #170

    6 December 2020

  207. Waiting

    Hit and Miss #169

    29 November 2020

  208. Adventuring

    Hit and Miss #168

    22 November 2020

  209. For the love of knowledge

    Hit and Miss #167

    15 November 2020

  210. Trivial links

    Hit and Miss #166

    8 November 2020

  211. Blowing hot air

    Hit and Miss #165

    1 November 2020

  212. Argh

    Hit and Miss #164

    25 October 2020

  213. On Mi’kmaw waters

    Hit and Miss #163

    18 October 2020

  214. A sense of perspective

    Hit and Miss #162

    11 October 2020

  215. Leafing through

    Hit and Miss #161

    4 October 2020

  216. Books at hand

    Hit and Miss #160

    27 September 2020

  217. COVID crime

    Hit and Miss #159

    20 September 2020

  218. Rainy morning adventures

    Hit and Miss #158

    13 September 2020

  219. Maintenance, care, attention

    Hit and Miss #157

    6 September 2020

  220. Week in review

    Hit and Miss #156

    30 August 2020

  221. TV time and world-building

    Hit and Miss #155

    23 August 2020

  222. Remembering (how) to relax

    Hit and Miss #154

    16 August 2020

  223. Roads

    Hit and Miss #153

    9 August 2020

  224. Rain day thoughts

    Hit and Miss #152

    2 August 2020

  225. Some links

    Hit and Miss #151

    26 July 2020

  226. Virtual community

    Hit and Miss #150

    19 July 2020

  227. Snapshots of the week

    Hit and Miss #149

    12 July 2020

  228. Halfway through 2020

    Hit and Miss #148

    5 July 2020

  229. One link to listen

    Hit and Miss #147

    28 June 2020

  230. Heat, work, history

    Hit and Miss #146

    21 June 2020

  231. Who’s watching?

    Hit and Miss #145

    14 June 2020

  232. What to say

    Hit and Miss #144

    7 June 2020

  233. A difficult week

    Hit and Miss #143

    31 May 2020

  234. To your taste

    Hit and Miss #142

    24 May 2020

  235. New shelves

    Hit and Miss #141

    17 May 2020

  236. In memoriam

    Hit and Miss #140

    10 May 2020

  237. Beautiful words

    Hit and Miss #139

    3 May 2020

  238. Wordy cookbooks

    Hit and Miss #138

    26 April 2020

  239. Day off reading

    Hit and Miss #137

    19 April 2020

  240. Parliament carries on

    Hit and Miss #136

    12 April 2020

  241. Personal websites

    Hit and Miss #135

    5 April 2020

  242. Do nothing struggles

    Hit and Miss #134

    29 March 2020

  243. Sims

    Hit and Miss #133

    22 March 2020

  244. Now so fast, history so slow

    Hit and Miss #132

    15 March 2020

  245. Finding focus

    Hit and Miss #131

    8 March 2020

  246. 2x3 links (misc, archives) and a phrase

    Hit and Miss #130

    1 March 2020

  247. Spring, feelings, readings

    Hit and Miss #129

    23 February 2020

  248. Family time

    Hit and Miss #128

    16 February 2020

  249. Collected links

    Hit and Miss #127

    9 February 2020

  250. Mining my messages

    Hit and Miss #126

    2 February 2020

  251. Facilitating access

    Hit and Miss #125

    26 January 2020

  252. Snow slow

    Hit and Miss #124

    19 January 2020

  253. Retreat to the wholesome

    Hit and Miss #123

    12 January 2020

  254. Archives and walking and links

    Hit and Miss #122

    5 January 2020

  255. Engage!

    Hit and Miss #121

    29 December 2019

  256. This year’s books

    Hit and Miss #120

    22 December 2019

  257. Top shelf (think books, not booze)

    Hit and Miss #119

    15 December 2019

  258. Thirty years later

    Hit and Miss #118

    8 December 2019

  259. Principles of parliamentary practice

    Hit and Miss #117

    1 December 2019

  260. Web links

    Hit and Miss #116

    24 November 2019

  261. P-p-p-policy!! (Or, what Lucas does at work)

    Hit and Miss #115

    17 November 2019

  262. Positions and the people in them

    A model of organizational change

    17 November 2019

  263. A parliamentary (precinct) tour

    Hit and Miss #114

    10 November 2019

  264. Stories beyond the data

    Hit and Miss #113

    3 November 2019

  265. Public service

    Hit and Miss #112

    27 October 2019

  266. Functions of a living situation

    Hit and Miss #111

    20 October 2019

  267. The sites I visit

    Hit and Miss #110

    13 October 2019

  268. The slump

    Hit and Miss #109

    6 October 2019

  269. Models for decision and action

    Hit and Miss #108

    29 September 2019

  270. Production and growth

    Models of action from Ursula Franklin

    29 September 2019

  271. A drop-in space

    Hit and Miss #107

    22 September 2019

  272. Bookmark finds

    Hit and Miss #106

    15 September 2019

  273. Travelling in place

    Hit and Miss #105

    8 September 2019

  274. Through the eyes of another

    Hit and Miss #104

    1 September 2019

  275. Structure

    Hit and Miss #103

    25 August 2019

  276. A geography of intentional sound

    Hit and Miss #102

    18 August 2019

  277. Happy days

    Hit and Miss #101

    11 August 2019

  278. Living principles

    Hit and Miss #100

    4 August 2019

  279. Levels of critical digital work

    Hit and Miss #99

    28 July 2019

  280. Questions for learning

    Hit and Miss #98

    21 July 2019

  281. Digital government and civic tech

    Hit and Miss #97

    14 July 2019

  282. Opera

    Hit and Miss #96

    7 July 2019

  283. Let’s take a walk

    Hit and Miss #95

    30 June 2019

  284. Words and links

    Hit and Miss #94

    23 June 2019

  285. Accessible public spaces

    Hit and Miss #93

    16 June 2019

  286. A working carrying capacity

    Hit and Miss #92

    9 June 2019

  287. Doors Open

    Hit and Miss #91

    2 June 2019

  288. Walking toward a social summer

    Hit and Miss #90

    26 May 2019

  289. Three blobs of words

    Hit and Miss #89

    19 May 2019

  290. Grounding history

    Hit and Miss #88

    12 May 2019

  291. A day off

    Hit and Miss #87

    5 May 2019

  292. Look up

    Hit and Miss #86

    28 April 2019

  293. Valuing openness

    Hit and Miss #85

    21 April 2019

  294. Thinking frames

    Hit and Miss #84

    14 April 2019

  295. Boomer empowerment

    Hit and Miss #83

    7 April 2019

  296. Framing conversation

    Distinguishing “praising/blaming” from “looking/puzzling”

    6 April 2019

  297. Ursula Franklin on inclusion

    Growing ourselves by recognizing the other in us

    6 April 2019

  298. Making time for music, for silence

    Hit and Miss #82

    31 March 2019

  299. A family day

    Hit and Miss #81

    24 March 2019

  300. Communicating depth

    Hit and Miss #80

    17 March 2019

  301. The signs

    Hit and Miss #79

    10 March 2019

  302. I, you, we (maybe?)

    Hit and Miss #78

    3 March 2019

  303. Words I avoid

    Hit and Miss #77

    24 February 2019

  304. The 80s and links

    Hit and Miss #76

    17 February 2019

  305. Standing in place

    Hit and Miss #75

    10 February 2019

  306. Jiro Dreams of Sushi

    Interviewing myself about a good movie

    7 February 2019

  307. When you want to get out and read

    Hit and Miss #74

    3 February 2019

  308. The wholesome social network

    Hit and Miss #73

    27 January 2019

  309. Libraries, physical and digital, visible and invisible

    Hit and Miss #72

    20 January 2019

  310. Rockeuses, and leaders as facilitators

    Hit and Miss #71

    13 January 2019

  311. Pacifist principles

    Ursula M. Franklin defines key terms

    12 January 2019

  312. What we remember, and why

    Hit and Miss #70

    6 January 2019

  313. Springsteen on Broadway

    The Boss, on the importance of stories

    5 January 2019

  314. Returning home and time’s triptych

    Hit and Miss #69

    30 December 2018

  315. Solitude

    Michael Harris on facing our own thoughts, alone

    28 December 2018

  316. Solitude connections

    For personal reference, reactions to Harris’s book

    28 December 2018

  317. Spotify wishlist

    Two musical concepts absent from Spotify’s features

    23 December 2018

  318. Reading (and writing) heals

    Hit and Miss #68

    23 December 2018

  319. What my library’s for

    A communications tool, with two audiences

    20 December 2018

  320. Speeches from the throne, thinking tools

    Hit and Miss #67

    16 December 2018

  321. Meanwhile the world goes on

    When nature and a poem strike you

    16 December 2018

  322. The certainty of the present moment, the certainty of change

    Why I appreciate Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels

    15 December 2018

  323. Scattered

    Hit and Miss #66

    9 December 2018

  324. When to stop writing

    Hemingway advises

    6 December 2018

  325. Working and rest

    Hit and Miss #65

    2 December 2018

  326. No choice

    Hit and Miss #64

    25 November 2018

  327. Competing priorities at Laurel Creek Conservation Area

    Hit and Miss #63

    18 November 2018

  328. Blogroll

    Hit and Miss #62

    11 November 2018

  329. Justifying the status quo

    If its context changes, a decision is no longer valid

    5 November 2018

  330. Misquoting Virgil

    Why context matters

    5 November 2018

  331. Thinky thinky

    Hit and Miss #61

    4 November 2018

  332. Thinking geographically

    Hit and Miss #60

    28 October 2018

  333. Three pairs of links

    Hit and Miss #59

    21 October 2018

  334. Digital history and digital humanities

    Hit and Miss #58

    14 October 2018

  335. Thanksgiving break

    Hit and Miss #57

    7 October 2018

  336. Dropping in

    Hit and Miss #56

    30 September 2018

  337. Communities of care

    Hit and Miss #55

    23 September 2018

  338. Growing up

    What learning looks like

    18 September 2018

  339. Repeated experiences

    Hit and Miss #54

    16 September 2018

  340. Writing in books, a personal history

    Hit and Miss #53

    9 September 2018

  341. A year in (review)

    Hit and Miss #52

    2 September 2018

  342. Learning and escaping through simulation

    Hit and Miss #51

    26 August 2018

  343. We shape the land

    Hit and Miss #50

    19 August 2018

  344. Learning languages, loving words

    Hit and Miss #49

    12 August 2018

  345. Cool recipes for a hot day

    Hit and Miss #48

    5 August 2018

  346. Turn to the local

    Hit and Miss #47

    29 July 2018

  347. “He was how old??”

    Analysing historical data about Members of Parliament

    22 July 2018

  348. Heat

    Hit and Miss #46

    22 July 2018

  349. How we work

    A manifesto for a good organization

    15 July 2018

  350. Humbly human

    Hit and Miss #45

    15 July 2018

  351. Working (remotely)

    Hit and Miss #44

    8 July 2018

  352. Centennial

    Hit and Miss #43

    1 July 2018

  353. Creative constraints

    Hit and Miss #42

    24 June 2018

  354. Historically minded

    Hit and Miss #41

    17 June 2018

  355. A quantified, incentivized life

    Hit and Miss #40

    10 June 2018

  356. Here I go again!

    Hit and Miss #39

    3 June 2018

  357. Pacifism

    Hit and Miss #38

    27 May 2018

  358. Working (together)

    Hit and Miss #37

    20 May 2018

  359. Science fair!!

    Hit and Miss #36

    13 May 2018

  360. Working

    Hit and Miss #35

    6 May 2018

  361. Portable pasta party kit

    Hit and Miss #34

    29 April 2018

  362. Keep going

    Hit and Miss #33

    22 April 2018

  363. Season 2, episode 22

    Hit and Miss #32

    15 April 2018

  364. Regularly local

    Hit and Miss #31

    8 April 2018

  365. M*A*S*H

    Hit and Miss #30

    1 April 2018

  366. On the environment

    Hit and Miss #29

    25 March 2018

  367. Robots!

    Hit and Miss #28

    18 March 2018

  368. Editing

    Hit and Miss #27

    11 March 2018

  369. Presenting work

    Hit and Miss #26

    4 March 2018

  370. The importance of internet access

    Hit and Miss #25

    25 February 2018

  371. Ode to the road

    Hit and Miss #24

    18 February 2018

  372. Some links

    Hit and Miss #23

    11 February 2018

  373. Life is long

    Hit and Miss #22

    4 February 2018

  374. Complex, connected problems

    Hit and Miss #21

    28 January 2018

  375. Profiles and interviews

    Hit and Miss #20

    21 January 2018

  376. Thinking about time

    Hit and Miss #19

    14 January 2018

  377. Digesting ideas

    Some things you don’t understand from the get-go

    12 January 2018

  378. “Feed”

    Hit and Miss #18

    7 January 2018

  379. On Mark Zuckerberg’s “personal challenge”

    Some things you can’t, and shouldn’t, solve alone

    4 January 2018

  380. Constant questions

    Hit and Miss #17

    31 December 2017

  381. Three welcome books

    Hit and Miss #16

    24 December 2017

  382. Small victories

    Hit and Miss #15

    17 December 2017

  383. Notes on The Prince

    Some Machiavellian lessons on life

    14 December 2017

  384. The Canadian Digital Service’s first show and tell

    A summary and some recommendations

    11 December 2017

  385. Our faves are problematic

    Hit and Miss #14

    10 December 2017

  386. The Seven Year Itch

    Hit and Miss #13

    3 December 2017

  387. The mind as a muscle

    Exercising it hurts just as much

    1 December 2017

  388. Readability troubles on Canada.ca

    Two small ideas for improvement

    29 November 2017

  389. Bye Bye Birdie

    Hit and Miss #12

    26 November 2017

  390. Walking routes

    A list of (roughly described) routes that I enjoy

    22 November 2017

  391. Therapeutic things

    Reminders of what I find relaxing

    22 November 2017

  392. No more (accidental) noise

    Taking a social media break

    22 November 2017

  393. What’s a personal bio good for?

    Hit and Miss #11

    19 November 2017

  394. Research reading

    Hit and Miss #10

    12 November 2017

  395. Earthworming

    Ursula M. Franklin’s advice for social change

    5 November 2017

  396. Modern monopolies

    Hit and Miss #9

    5 November 2017

  397. Civic tech

    Hit and Miss #8

    29 October 2017

  398. A revealing week

    Hit and Miss #7

    22 October 2017

  399. Veritable listening

    Hit and Miss #6

    15 October 2017

  400. Nature’s musical tastes

    Wendell Berry observes nature’s “patient ear”

    12 October 2017

  401. Newsletter recommendations

    Hit and Miss #5

    8 October 2017

  402. Loving libraries

    Hit and Miss #4

    1 October 2017

  403. Ursula M. Franklin suggests some readings

    Selections from The Real World of Technology’s bibliography

    30 September 2017

  404. Work isn’t the whole thing

    Two notes from Frank Chimero on keeping life in perspective

    26 September 2017

  405. Manguel’s tribute to dissatisfaction

    Putting into words the role of an essay

    24 September 2017

  406. Conversational contributions

    Hit and Miss #3

    24 September 2017

  407. Documenting drafts: Hit and Miss #2

    A peek behind the scenes of my editing process

    20 September 2017

  408. Questioning labels

    Hit and Miss #2

    17 September 2017

  409. Earthworming

    Hit and Miss #1

    10 September 2017

  410. Sunday mornings

    Establishing rituals

    10 September 2017

  411. Reading with a pen

    Observations from years of writing in my books

    31 August 2017

  412. Learning to code by failing safely

    Thoughts on my talk at WordCamp Ottawa 2017

    25 July 2017

  413. Transparency theatre

    Saying the thing is not doing the thing

    24 July 2017

  414. Quantifying reading

    What Goodreads can teach us about databases and shared understanding

    13 July 2017

  415. “I wouldn’t” by John Vance Cheney

    A perfect summertime poem

    13 July 2017

  416. On things left unfinished

    Manguel reminds us that a book is never truly read

    13 July 2017

  417. Tracey Lauriault on data at Ottawa Civic Tech

    Living in an age of data, we must critique the technology spread throughout our lives

    6 June 2017

  418. Paying for news

    Dave Winer offers an interesting proposal to pay for news from multiple outlets

    30 May 2017

  419. Stop reading, start writing

    Bayard pushes us to understand ourselves by seeing reading as the impetus for writing

    28 May 2017

  420. Zinsser’s thesis

    Saying a true thing again and again

    27 May 2017

  421. Wafting Westminster

    Frustration with the House reform process

    30 April 2017

  422. Why not design school

    Michael Bierut answers the question I receive most often

    9 April 2017

  423. Named colours

    The folly of subjective references

    10 February 2017

  424. Doing the real work

    The illusion of work, versus the act itself

    17 September 2016

  425. Stop hiding links

    We should celebrate the fundamental building block of the web

    11 September 2016

  426. Designated typist

    Anne Lamott on letting your subject talk

    10 September 2016

  427. The Cherkewski View

    A personal website manifesto

    9 September 2016