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. Reading, public service reform, diagetic theme songs

    Hit and Miss #392

    9 March 2025

  2. Burning, 18F, and change

    Hit and Miss #391

    2 March 2025

  3. 18F worked in the open

    Which, thankfully, enables its work to live on

    2 March 2025

  4. Try carpolling

    Hit and Miss #390

    23 February 2025

  5. Shovelling the snowbanks

    Hit and Miss #389

    16 February 2025

  6. Hair of the dog

    Hit and Miss #388

    9 February 2025

  7. “Brace for impact”

    Hit and Miss #387

    2 February 2025

  8. Paying attention

    Hit and Miss #386

    26 January 2025

  9. Government innovation with TREES

    Hit and Miss #385

    19 January 2025

  10. Mercurial January

    Hit and Miss #384

    12 January 2025

  11. “Finish”

    Hit and Miss #383

    5 January 2025

  12. Some books from 2024

    Hit and Miss #382

    29 December 2024

  13. No tinsel for you!

    Hit and Miss #381

    22 December 2024

  14. “Song for a Winter’s Night”

    Hit and Miss #380

    15 December 2024

  15. Doing hard things, together

    Hit and Miss #379

    8 December 2024

  16. Deferred maintenance

    Hit and Miss #378

    1 December 2024

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

    Hit and Miss #377

    24 November 2024

  18. November media diet

    Hit and Miss #376

    17 November 2024

  19. Disappointed, but not surprised

    Hit and Miss #375

    10 November 2024

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

    Hit and Miss #374

    3 November 2024

  21. Friendship’s sunshine

    Hit and Miss #373

    27 October 2024

  22. Categorized (try) todo lists

    Hit and Miss #372

    20 October 2024

  23. Humanity and turkey

    Hit and Miss #371

    13 October 2024

  24. Walking LeBreton

    Hit and Miss #370

    6 October 2024

  25. Walking, even after a while

    Hit and Miss #369

    29 September 2024

  26. A place to think

    Hit and Miss #368

    22 September 2024

  27. Maintenance, houses, and stuff

    Hit and Miss #367

    15 September 2024

  28. Gloom and the antidote to worry

    Hit and Miss #366

    8 September 2024

  29. Nearly fall vacation reading

    Hit and Miss #365

    1 September 2024

  30. SQL, community, and cool stuff

    Hit and Miss #364

    25 August 2024

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

    Hit and Miss #363

    18 August 2024

  32. Usable (legible!) for computers

    Hit and Miss #362

    11 August 2024

  33. Good spreadsheets

    Spreadsheetin’: making data usable for computers

    6 August 2024

  34. Fuzzy conversation feelings

    Hit and Miss #361

    4 August 2024

  35. Cutting back to grow more

    Hit and Miss #360

    28 July 2024

  36. Time outside, time well spent

    Hit and Miss #359

    21 July 2024

  37. An hour writing this newsletter

    Hit and Miss #358

    14 July 2024

  38. Eat your vegetables!

    Hit and Miss #357

    7 July 2024

  39. Human-sized places

    Hit and Miss #356

    30 June 2024

  40. Mostly complete

    Hit and Miss #355

    23 June 2024

  41. Sharing in abundance

    Hit and Miss #354

    16 June 2024

  42. Outdoor meals and Home Depot hauls

    Hit and Miss #353

    9 June 2024

  43. Facing west

    Hit and Miss #352

    2 June 2024

  44. Running back from Italy

    Hit and Miss #351

    26 May 2024

  45. Eat, sleep, rest, repeat

    Hit and Miss #350

    19 May 2024

  46. Digital reading lessgoooo

    Hit and Miss #349

    12 May 2024

  47. “Frozen in an uncomfortable slouch”

    Hit and Miss #348

    5 May 2024

  48. Grab bag

    Hit and Miss #347

    28 April 2024

  49. Clean the tabs, share the links

    Hit and Miss #346

    21 April 2024

  50. Books abound

    Hit and Miss #345

    14 April 2024

  51. Endless Saturdays

    Hit and Miss #344

    7 April 2024

  52. First quarter updates

    Hit and Miss #343

    31 March 2024

  53. The usual moves

    Hit and Miss #342

    24 March 2024

  54. Continuing themes

    Hit and Miss #341

    17 March 2024

  55. Blackbirds are back

    Hit and Miss #340

    10 March 2024

  56. Sure, winter, see ya later

    Hit and Miss #339

    3 March 2024

  57. How it goes these days

    Hit and Miss #338

    25 February 2024

  58. Love and friendship (and data and government)

    Hit and Miss #337

    18 February 2024

  59. Wintry neighbours

    Hit and Miss #332

    14 January 2024

  60. Benchin’, cattin’, linkin’

    Hit and Miss #331

    7 January 2024

  61. So, we made it

    Hit and Miss #330

    31 December 2023

  62. Another year’s books

    Hit and Miss #329

    24 December 2023

  63. omg me too

    Hit and Miss #328

    17 December 2023

  64. Hoorah for “blank time”

    Hit and Miss #327

    10 December 2023

  65. Bring on the winter of (inter)dependence

    Hit and Miss #326

    3 December 2023

  66. Independent living depends on a healthy land

    Hit and Miss #325

    26 November 2023

  67. Responding to change (links on)

    Hit and Miss #324

    19 November 2023

  68. Change for thee, but not for me?

    Hit and Miss #323

    12 November 2023

  69. Home from Japan

    Hit and Miss #316

    24 September 2023

  70. Links on data, exploitation, and hunkering down

    Hit and Miss #285

    19 February 2023

  71. Holding on

    Hit and Miss #284

    12 February 2023

  72. Existing in melancholy

    Hit and Miss #283

    5 February 2023

  73. Snowy brain

    Hit and Miss #282

    29 January 2023

  74. Links on recordkeeping and more

    Hit and Miss #281

    22 January 2023

  75. Living by the clock, by the light

    Hit and Miss #280

    15 January 2023

  76. More rest

    Hit and Miss #279

    8 January 2023

  77. 2022 to 2023

    Hit and Miss #278

    1 January 2023

  78. 2022 reads

    Hit and Miss #277

    25 December 2022

  79. Passing the baton

    Hit and Miss #276

    18 December 2022

  80. Assurance

    Hit and Miss #275

    11 December 2022

  81. See also

    Hit and Miss #274

    4 December 2022

  82. Transcripting

    Hit and Miss #273

    27 November 2022

  83. Extremely online

    Hit and Miss #272

    20 November 2022

  84. Promises to self

    Hit and Miss #271

    13 November 2022

  85. Constitutional unconstitutionalism

    Hit and Miss #270

    6 November 2022

  86. Crises abound

    Hit and Miss #269

    30 October 2022

  87. Convo dump

    Hit and Miss #268

    23 October 2022

  88. Serious links™ on work

    Hit and Miss #267

    16 October 2022

  89. Public delivery

    Hit and Miss #266

    9 October 2022

  90. Calls continue

    Hit and Miss #265

    2 October 2022

  91. Work, birds, tech, munipoli

    Hit and Miss #264

    25 September 2022

  92. Technicalities

    Hit and Miss #263

    18 September 2022

  93. Five years!? A thank you

    Hit and Miss #262

    11 September 2022

  94. 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

  95. Holding pattern

    Hit and Miss #261

    4 September 2022

  96. Learning in crisis

    Hit and Miss #260

    28 August 2022

  97. Just the links

    Hit and Miss #259

    21 August 2022

  98. A shout to the wind

    Hit and Miss #258

    14 August 2022

  99. Hot brain links

    Hit and Miss #257

    7 August 2022

  100. Toward an indie web(site)

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

    1 August 2022

  101. Malleable words

    Hit and Miss #256

    31 July 2022

  102. Welcome to the party, pal

    Hit and Miss #255

    24 July 2022

  103. Slow links

    Hit and Miss #254

    17 July 2022

  104. Systems

    Hit and Miss #253

    10 July 2022

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

    Hit and Miss #252

    3 July 2022

  106. Internalized stress

    Hit and Miss #251

    26 June 2022

  107. Decommissioned

    Hit and Miss #250

    19 June 2022

  108. Half caff

    Hit and Miss #249

    12 June 2022

  109. Financialized nesting dolls

    Hit and Miss #248

    5 June 2022

  110. Busy rest

    Hit and Miss #247

    29 May 2022

  111. Climate unpredictability

    Hit and Miss #246

    22 May 2022

  112. L’aride follie del viver mio

    Hit and Miss #245

    15 May 2022

  113. Sunny springtime links

    Hit and Miss #244

    8 May 2022

  114. Anniversary treat

    Hit and Miss #243

    1 May 2022

  115. Forces for good

    Hit and Miss #242

    24 April 2022

  116. Abundant, virtuous futures

    Hit and Miss #241

    17 April 2022

  117. April again

    Hit and Miss #240

    10 April 2022

  118. Spring (tab) cleaning

    Hit and Miss #239

    3 April 2022

  119. Links on ambition, resilient building, and more

    Hit and Miss #238

    27 March 2022

  120. Doing our parts

    Hit and Miss #237

    20 March 2022

  121. Seeking beautiful moments

    Hit and Miss #236

    13 March 2022

  122. Chase the sun (redux)

    Hit and Miss #235

    6 March 2022

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

    Hit and Miss #234

    27 February 2022

  124. Goodbye (?) to the occupiers

    Hit and Miss #233

    20 February 2022

  125. Savouring silence

    Hit and Miss #232

    13 February 2022

  126. Acoustic assaults

    Hit and Miss #231

    6 February 2022

  127. Ursula Franklin on silence

    Excerpts from “Silence and the Notion of the Commons”

    6 February 2022

  128. Occupied

    Hit and Miss #230

    30 January 2022

  129. Playing for team public

    Hit and Miss #229

    23 January 2022

  130. Where have the snow days gone

    Hit and Miss #228

    16 January 2022

  131. Melancholy and drama, but peace

    Hit and Miss #227

    9 January 2022

  132. Digging roots

    Hit and Miss #226

    2 January 2022

  133. A few books feed us well

    Hit and Miss #225

    26 December 2021

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

    Hit and Miss #224

    19 December 2021

  135. Fragments

    Hit and Miss #223

    12 December 2021

  136. What we lose

    Hit and Miss #222

    5 December 2021

  137. Outrunning the food coma

    Hit and Miss #221

    28 November 2021

  138. Stories within stories

    Hit and Miss #220

    21 November 2021

  139. Silent commemoration

    Hit and Miss #219

    14 November 2021

  140. One week down

    Hit and Miss #218

    7 November 2021

  141. Surviving November

    Hit and Miss #217

    31 October 2021

  142. Pandemic movie weekends

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

    31 October 2021

  143. Registering intent

    Hit and Miss #216

    24 October 2021

  144. Leaves pass to soil

    Hit and Miss #215

    17 October 2021

  145. A brief rom-com review

    Hit and Miss #214

    10 October 2021

  146. Truer histories

    Hit and Miss #213

    3 October 2021

  147. Star Trek days

    Hit and Miss #212

    26 September 2021

  148. Paths (not) taken

    Hit and Miss #211

    19 September 2021

  149. Little reading

    Hit and Miss #210

    12 September 2021

  150. September, you’re finally here

    Hit and Miss #209

    5 September 2021

  151. Reading and movies

    Hit and Miss #208

    29 August 2021

  152. August free fall

    Hit and Miss #207

    22 August 2021

  153. Democratic event(s)

    Hit and Miss #206

    15 August 2021

  154. Let’s get nerdy

    Hit and Miss #205

    8 August 2021

  155. Cool sunsets

    Hit and Miss #204

    1 August 2021

  156. Parables

    Hit and Miss #203

    25 July 2021

  157. Boredom, boiling frogs, and miscellany

    Hit and Miss #202

    18 July 2021

  158. Summer dreaming

    Hit and Miss #201

    11 July 2021

  159. “You give me life”

    Hit and Miss #200

    4 July 2021

  160. Loading

    Hit and Miss #199

    27 June 2021

  161. Cooking, staying hungry

    Hit and Miss #198

    20 June 2021

  162. Responding to violence

    Hit and Miss #197

    13 June 2021

  163. Doors Open (online)

    Hit and Miss #196

    6 June 2021

  164. 215 children

    Hit and Miss #195

    30 May 2021

  165. What’s on the mind

    Hit and Miss #194

    23 May 2021

  166. Lilacs

    Hit and Miss #193

    16 May 2021

  167. The world is cool

    Hit and Miss #192

    9 May 2021

  168. Anniversaries

    Hit and Miss #191

    2 May 2021

  169. To what grounds us

    Hit and Miss #190

    25 April 2021

  170. Furious, heartbroken—but not surprised

    Hit and Miss #189

    18 April 2021

  171. Daydream believer

    Hit and Miss #188

    11 April 2021

  172. Sunshine escape

    Hit and Miss #187

    4 April 2021

  173. Rainy day people

    Hit and Miss #186

    28 March 2021

  174. Spring—change, or not

    Hit and Miss #185

    21 March 2021

  175. On we go

    Hit and Miss #184

    14 March 2021

  176. Reporting thoughtfully

    Hit and Miss #183

    7 March 2021

  177. Keeping it light

    Hit and Miss #182

    28 February 2021

  178. Close to home

    Hit and Miss #181

    21 February 2021

  179. Another day older, closer to the grave

    Hit and Miss #180

    14 February 2021

  180. Chase the sun

    Hit and Miss #179

    7 February 2021

  181. Coding by any other name

    Hit and Miss #178

    31 January 2021

  182. Gettin’ sauced

    Hit and Miss #177

    24 January 2021

  183. Working (again)

    Hit and Miss #176

    17 January 2021

  184. This week in anti-democracy…

    Hit and Miss #175

    10 January 2021

  185. Zoom zoom

    Hit and Miss #174

    3 January 2021

  186. Revisiting

    Hit and Miss #173

    27 December 2020

  187. Five books for the year

    Hit and Miss #172

    20 December 2020

  188. Ugh, algorithms

    Hit and Miss #171

    13 December 2020

  189. PolySeSouvient

    Hit and Miss #170

    6 December 2020

  190. Waiting

    Hit and Miss #169

    29 November 2020

  191. Adventuring

    Hit and Miss #168

    22 November 2020

  192. For the love of knowledge

    Hit and Miss #167

    15 November 2020

  193. Trivial links

    Hit and Miss #166

    8 November 2020

  194. Blowing hot air

    Hit and Miss #165

    1 November 2020

  195. Argh

    Hit and Miss #164

    25 October 2020

  196. On Mi’kmaw waters

    Hit and Miss #163

    18 October 2020

  197. A sense of perspective

    Hit and Miss #162

    11 October 2020

  198. Leafing through

    Hit and Miss #161

    4 October 2020

  199. Books at hand

    Hit and Miss #160

    27 September 2020

  200. COVID crime

    Hit and Miss #159

    20 September 2020

  201. Rainy morning adventures

    Hit and Miss #158

    13 September 2020

  202. Maintenance, care, attention

    Hit and Miss #157

    6 September 2020

  203. Week in review

    Hit and Miss #156

    30 August 2020

  204. TV time and world-building

    Hit and Miss #155

    23 August 2020

  205. Remembering (how) to relax

    Hit and Miss #154

    16 August 2020

  206. Roads

    Hit and Miss #153

    9 August 2020

  207. Rain day thoughts

    Hit and Miss #152

    2 August 2020

  208. Some links

    Hit and Miss #151

    26 July 2020

  209. Virtual community

    Hit and Miss #150

    19 July 2020

  210. Snapshots of the week

    Hit and Miss #149

    12 July 2020

  211. Halfway through 2020

    Hit and Miss #148

    5 July 2020

  212. One link to listen

    Hit and Miss #147

    28 June 2020

  213. Heat, work, history

    Hit and Miss #146

    21 June 2020

  214. Who’s watching?

    Hit and Miss #145

    14 June 2020

  215. What to say

    Hit and Miss #144

    7 June 2020

  216. A difficult week

    Hit and Miss #143

    31 May 2020

  217. To your taste

    Hit and Miss #142

    24 May 2020

  218. New shelves

    Hit and Miss #141

    17 May 2020

  219. In memoriam

    Hit and Miss #140

    10 May 2020

  220. Beautiful words

    Hit and Miss #139

    3 May 2020

  221. Wordy cookbooks

    Hit and Miss #138

    26 April 2020

  222. Day off reading

    Hit and Miss #137

    19 April 2020

  223. Parliament carries on

    Hit and Miss #136

    12 April 2020

  224. Personal websites

    Hit and Miss #135

    5 April 2020

  225. Do nothing struggles

    Hit and Miss #134

    29 March 2020

  226. Sims

    Hit and Miss #133

    22 March 2020

  227. Now so fast, history so slow

    Hit and Miss #132

    15 March 2020

  228. Finding focus

    Hit and Miss #131

    8 March 2020

  229. 2x3 links (misc, archives) and a phrase

    Hit and Miss #130

    1 March 2020

  230. Spring, feelings, readings

    Hit and Miss #129

    23 February 2020

  231. Family time

    Hit and Miss #128

    16 February 2020

  232. Collected links

    Hit and Miss #127

    9 February 2020

  233. Mining my messages

    Hit and Miss #126

    2 February 2020

  234. Facilitating access

    Hit and Miss #125

    26 January 2020

  235. Snow slow

    Hit and Miss #124

    19 January 2020

  236. Retreat to the wholesome

    Hit and Miss #123

    12 January 2020

  237. Archives and walking and links

    Hit and Miss #122

    5 January 2020

  238. Engage!

    Hit and Miss #121

    29 December 2019

  239. This year’s books

    Hit and Miss #120

    22 December 2019

  240. Top shelf (think books, not booze)

    Hit and Miss #119

    15 December 2019

  241. Thirty years later

    Hit and Miss #118

    8 December 2019

  242. Principles of parliamentary practice

    Hit and Miss #117

    1 December 2019

  243. Web links

    Hit and Miss #116

    24 November 2019

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

    Hit and Miss #115

    17 November 2019

  245. Positions and the people in them

    A model of organizational change

    17 November 2019

  246. A parliamentary (precinct) tour

    Hit and Miss #114

    10 November 2019

  247. Stories beyond the data

    Hit and Miss #113

    3 November 2019

  248. Public service

    Hit and Miss #112

    27 October 2019

  249. Functions of a living situation

    Hit and Miss #111

    20 October 2019

  250. The sites I visit

    Hit and Miss #110

    13 October 2019

  251. The slump

    Hit and Miss #109

    6 October 2019

  252. Models for decision and action

    Hit and Miss #108

    29 September 2019

  253. Production and growth

    Models of action from Ursula Franklin

    29 September 2019

  254. A drop-in space

    Hit and Miss #107

    22 September 2019

  255. Bookmark finds

    Hit and Miss #106

    15 September 2019

  256. Travelling in place

    Hit and Miss #105

    8 September 2019

  257. Through the eyes of another

    Hit and Miss #104

    1 September 2019

  258. Structure

    Hit and Miss #103

    25 August 2019

  259. A geography of intentional sound

    Hit and Miss #102

    18 August 2019

  260. Happy days

    Hit and Miss #101

    11 August 2019

  261. Living principles

    Hit and Miss #100

    4 August 2019

  262. Levels of critical digital work

    Hit and Miss #99

    28 July 2019

  263. Questions for learning

    Hit and Miss #98

    21 July 2019

  264. Digital government and civic tech

    Hit and Miss #97

    14 July 2019

  265. Opera

    Hit and Miss #96

    7 July 2019

  266. Let’s take a walk

    Hit and Miss #95

    30 June 2019

  267. Words and links

    Hit and Miss #94

    23 June 2019

  268. Accessible public spaces

    Hit and Miss #93

    16 June 2019

  269. A working carrying capacity

    Hit and Miss #92

    9 June 2019

  270. Doors Open

    Hit and Miss #91

    2 June 2019

  271. Walking toward a social summer

    Hit and Miss #90

    26 May 2019

  272. Three blobs of words

    Hit and Miss #89

    19 May 2019

  273. Grounding history

    Hit and Miss #88

    12 May 2019

  274. A day off

    Hit and Miss #87

    5 May 2019

  275. Look up

    Hit and Miss #86

    28 April 2019

  276. Valuing openness

    Hit and Miss #85

    21 April 2019

  277. Thinking frames

    Hit and Miss #84

    14 April 2019

  278. Boomer empowerment

    Hit and Miss #83

    7 April 2019

  279. Framing conversation

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

    6 April 2019

  280. Ursula Franklin on inclusion

    Growing ourselves by recognizing the other in us

    6 April 2019

  281. Making time for music, for silence

    Hit and Miss #82

    31 March 2019

  282. A family day

    Hit and Miss #81

    24 March 2019

  283. Communicating depth

    Hit and Miss #80

    17 March 2019

  284. The signs

    Hit and Miss #79

    10 March 2019

  285. I, you, we (maybe?)

    Hit and Miss #78

    3 March 2019

  286. Words I avoid

    Hit and Miss #77

    24 February 2019

  287. The 80s and links

    Hit and Miss #76

    17 February 2019

  288. Standing in place

    Hit and Miss #75

    10 February 2019

  289. Jiro Dreams of Sushi

    Interviewing myself about a good movie

    7 February 2019

  290. When you want to get out and read

    Hit and Miss #74

    3 February 2019

  291. The wholesome social network

    Hit and Miss #73

    27 January 2019

  292. Libraries, physical and digital, visible and invisible

    Hit and Miss #72

    20 January 2019

  293. Rockeuses, and leaders as facilitators

    Hit and Miss #71

    13 January 2019

  294. Pacifist principles

    Ursula M. Franklin defines key terms

    12 January 2019

  295. What we remember, and why

    Hit and Miss #70

    6 January 2019

  296. Springsteen on Broadway

    The Boss, on the importance of stories

    5 January 2019

  297. Returning home and time’s triptych

    Hit and Miss #69

    30 December 2018

  298. Solitude

    Michael Harris on facing our own thoughts, alone

    28 December 2018

  299. Solitude connections

    For personal reference, reactions to Harris’s book

    28 December 2018

  300. Spotify wishlist

    Two musical concepts absent from Spotify’s features

    23 December 2018

  301. Reading (and writing) heals

    Hit and Miss #68

    23 December 2018

  302. What my library’s for

    A communications tool, with two audiences

    20 December 2018

  303. Speeches from the throne, thinking tools

    Hit and Miss #67

    16 December 2018

  304. Meanwhile the world goes on

    When nature and a poem strike you

    16 December 2018

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

    Why I appreciate Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels

    15 December 2018

  306. Scattered

    Hit and Miss #66

    9 December 2018

  307. When to stop writing

    Hemingway advises

    6 December 2018

  308. Working and rest

    Hit and Miss #65

    2 December 2018

  309. No choice

    Hit and Miss #64

    25 November 2018

  310. Competing priorities at Laurel Creek Conservation Area

    Hit and Miss #63

    18 November 2018

  311. Blogroll

    Hit and Miss #62

    11 November 2018

  312. Justifying the status quo

    If its context changes, a decision is no longer valid

    5 November 2018

  313. Misquoting Virgil

    Why context matters

    5 November 2018

  314. Thinky thinky

    Hit and Miss #61

    4 November 2018

  315. Thinking geographically

    Hit and Miss #60

    28 October 2018

  316. Three pairs of links

    Hit and Miss #59

    21 October 2018

  317. Digital history and digital humanities

    Hit and Miss #58

    14 October 2018

  318. Thanksgiving break

    Hit and Miss #57

    7 October 2018

  319. Dropping in

    Hit and Miss #56

    30 September 2018

  320. Communities of care

    Hit and Miss #55

    23 September 2018

  321. Growing up

    What learning looks like

    18 September 2018

  322. Repeated experiences

    Hit and Miss #54

    16 September 2018

  323. Writing in books, a personal history

    Hit and Miss #53

    9 September 2018

  324. A year in (review)

    Hit and Miss #52

    2 September 2018

  325. Learning and escaping through simulation

    Hit and Miss #51

    26 August 2018

  326. We shape the land

    Hit and Miss #50

    19 August 2018

  327. Learning languages, loving words

    Hit and Miss #49

    12 August 2018

  328. Cool recipes for a hot day

    Hit and Miss #48

    5 August 2018

  329. Turn to the local

    Hit and Miss #47

    29 July 2018

  330. “He was how old??”

    Analysing historical data about Members of Parliament

    22 July 2018

  331. Heat

    Hit and Miss #46

    22 July 2018

  332. How we work

    A manifesto for a good organization

    15 July 2018

  333. Humbly human

    Hit and Miss #45

    15 July 2018

  334. Working (remotely)

    Hit and Miss #44

    8 July 2018

  335. Centennial

    Hit and Miss #43

    1 July 2018

  336. Creative constraints

    Hit and Miss #42

    24 June 2018

  337. Historically minded

    Hit and Miss #41

    17 June 2018

  338. A quantified, incentivized life

    Hit and Miss #40

    10 June 2018

  339. Here I go again!

    Hit and Miss #39

    3 June 2018

  340. Pacifism

    Hit and Miss #38

    27 May 2018

  341. Working (together)

    Hit and Miss #37

    20 May 2018

  342. Science fair!!

    Hit and Miss #36

    13 May 2018

  343. Working

    Hit and Miss #35

    6 May 2018

  344. Portable pasta party kit

    Hit and Miss #34

    29 April 2018

  345. Keep going

    Hit and Miss #33

    22 April 2018

  346. Season 2, episode 22

    Hit and Miss #32

    15 April 2018

  347. Regularly local

    Hit and Miss #31

    8 April 2018

  348. M*A*S*H

    Hit and Miss #30

    1 April 2018

  349. On the environment

    Hit and Miss #29

    25 March 2018

  350. Robots!

    Hit and Miss #28

    18 March 2018

  351. Editing

    Hit and Miss #27

    11 March 2018

  352. Presenting work

    Hit and Miss #26

    4 March 2018

  353. The importance of internet access

    Hit and Miss #25

    25 February 2018

  354. Ode to the road

    Hit and Miss #24

    18 February 2018

  355. Some links

    Hit and Miss #23

    11 February 2018

  356. Life is long

    Hit and Miss #22

    4 February 2018

  357. Complex, connected problems

    Hit and Miss #21

    28 January 2018

  358. Profiles and interviews

    Hit and Miss #20

    21 January 2018

  359. Thinking about time

    Hit and Miss #19

    14 January 2018

  360. Digesting ideas

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

    12 January 2018

  361. “Feed”

    Hit and Miss #18

    7 January 2018

  362. On Mark Zuckerberg’s “personal challenge”

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

    4 January 2018

  363. Constant questions

    Hit and Miss #17

    31 December 2017

  364. Three welcome books

    Hit and Miss #16

    24 December 2017

  365. Small victories

    Hit and Miss #15

    17 December 2017

  366. Notes on The Prince

    Some Machiavellian lessons on life

    14 December 2017

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

    A summary and some recommendations

    11 December 2017

  368. Our faves are problematic

    Hit and Miss #14

    10 December 2017

  369. The Seven Year Itch

    Hit and Miss #13

    3 December 2017

  370. The mind as a muscle

    Exercising it hurts just as much

    1 December 2017

  371. Readability troubles on Canada.ca

    Two small ideas for improvement

    29 November 2017

  372. Bye Bye Birdie

    Hit and Miss #12

    26 November 2017

  373. Walking routes

    A list of (roughly described) routes that I enjoy

    22 November 2017

  374. Therapeutic things

    Reminders of what I find relaxing

    22 November 2017

  375. No more (accidental) noise

    Taking a social media break

    22 November 2017

  376. What’s a personal bio good for?

    Hit and Miss #11

    19 November 2017

  377. Research reading

    Hit and Miss #10

    12 November 2017

  378. Earthworming

    Ursula M. Franklin’s advice for social change

    5 November 2017

  379. Modern monopolies

    Hit and Miss #9

    5 November 2017

  380. Civic tech

    Hit and Miss #8

    29 October 2017

  381. A revealing week

    Hit and Miss #7

    22 October 2017

  382. Veritable listening

    Hit and Miss #6

    15 October 2017

  383. Nature’s musical tastes

    Wendell Berry observes nature’s “patient ear”

    12 October 2017

  384. Newsletter recommendations

    Hit and Miss #5

    8 October 2017

  385. Loving libraries

    Hit and Miss #4

    1 October 2017

  386. Ursula M. Franklin suggests some readings

    Selections from The Real World of Technology’s bibliography

    30 September 2017

  387. Work isn’t the whole thing

    Two notes from Frank Chimero on keeping life in perspective

    26 September 2017

  388. Manguel’s tribute to dissatisfaction

    Putting into words the role of an essay

    24 September 2017

  389. Conversational contributions

    Hit and Miss #3

    24 September 2017

  390. Documenting drafts: Hit and Miss #2

    A peek behind the scenes of my editing process

    20 September 2017

  391. Questioning labels

    Hit and Miss #2

    17 September 2017

  392. Earthworming

    Hit and Miss #1

    10 September 2017

  393. Sunday mornings

    Establishing rituals

    10 September 2017

  394. Reading with a pen

    Observations from years of writing in my books

    31 August 2017

  395. Learning to code by failing safely

    Thoughts on my talk at WordCamp Ottawa 2017

    25 July 2017

  396. Transparency theatre

    Saying the thing is not doing the thing

    24 July 2017

  397. Quantifying reading

    What Goodreads can teach us about databases and shared understanding

    13 July 2017

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

    A perfect summertime poem

    13 July 2017

  399. On things left unfinished

    Manguel reminds us that a book is never truly read

    13 July 2017

  400. 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

  401. Paying for news

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

    30 May 2017

  402. Stop reading, start writing

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

    28 May 2017

  403. Zinsser’s thesis

    Saying a true thing again and again

    27 May 2017

  404. Wafting Westminster

    Frustration with the House reform process

    30 April 2017

  405. Why not design school

    Michael Bierut answers the question I receive most often

    9 April 2017

  406. Named colours

    The folly of subjective references

    10 February 2017

  407. Doing the real work

    The illusion of work, versus the act itself

    17 September 2016

  408. Stop hiding links

    We should celebrate the fundamental building block of the web

    11 September 2016

  409. Designated typist

    Anne Lamott on letting your subject talk

    10 September 2016

  410. The Cherkewski View

    A personal website manifesto

    9 September 2016