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Team Mudslide
I figured I would share some photos here too. I pulled my photos that I posted on Instagram over the years. Many of them were during my 2015 Appalachian Trail thru-hike.
Hiking through Great Smoky Mountain National Park, I was lucky to hike with a great group of guys. We called ourselves Team Mudslide on account of the muddy conditions we were experiencing during that part of the hike.
Peace Dawg and I ended up hiking the rest of the trail together. Beowulf, a poet and English teacher ended up splitting from the group at some point. Dance Move got off trail in Virginia after running out of money. All of ‘em Hiker Trash at it’s finest.
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The Second Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
I’m speechless. A must read.
The Second Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr - by Ibram X. Kendi for The Atlantic
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Autofocus Todo System
I spend too much time looking at different notetaking tools and to-do systems with a preference for plain text and pen and paper solutions. Here is a recent discovery that has influenced my current mostly notebook-based system.
Despite my obsession, I still try to keep the HN comment [[2021-07-31-not-getting-things-done|I mentioned here]] in mind.
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Global Guide To Letting Kids Have Fun Without Stressing Parents Out
A Global Guide To Letting Kids Have Fun Without Stressing Parents Out : Goats and Soda : NPR
Not sure if bashing Western parenting is just a fad, easy or both but seems to be fodder for a lot of articles and books these days. Or maybe it has always been that way?
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Not Getting Things Done
Hundreds of Ways to Get S#!+ Done—and We Still Don’t
A succinct review of the problems with productivity and to-do apps and why they fail.
I equally enjoyed this comment from HN
Good. When we die, we will still have a giant todo list, and that’s OK. That doesn’t mean we haven’t done things, it just means the list didn’t capture the entirety of our desires and goals.
Maybe the point of writing them down is mostly reflective; to contextualize them as much as possible and do the ones that we find most important by some unconscious heuristic. That means there will always be uncompleted things.
Also we have to see when we itemize things to do, we also objectify ourselves as a doer of those things. Which is OK for making things graspable, but ultimately we are not mere doer of things, we are humans in an existential context.
Maybe it is a good thing that we left todo items unchecked, maybe that is our protest against being reduced too much, maybe that procrastination is an attempt at gaining our humanity back, maybe that resistive Netflix binge has some unconscious meaning that needs to be honored. “
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The lie of “expired” food
The lie of “expired” food and the disastrous truth of America’s food waste problem
“A big part of the problem is that most of us don’t really believe we’re capable of determining if a food is good for us. “
“There are two vital facts to know about date labels on foods in the US: They’re not standardized, and they have almost nothing to do with food safety. “
While on a personal level, we can “start trusting our senses to tell us if food is edible”, larger scale change would likely require regulation, and “Congress just moves slowly.”
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Slack
This, so much. I’ve been on both sides of the spectrum of having too much slack and not enough. I certainly see a lack of slack in those around me and always worry about efforts to improve efficiency.
We have been promised for years that new technology and workflows will make us less busy but it never pans out. We just change our expectations, move the goal post, and end up just as busy as before, without any slack.
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Recent
Risk
Been reading a lot about risk, especially in a medical context.
Just finished Gerd Gigerenzer’s Risk Savvy. A lot of great thoughts on uncertainty vs calculated risk, how we, as humans, think about risk, and how we communicate risk. I should definitely write a highlights post on it when I get a chance.
Move
Excited to move into our first home at the end of June!
Gardening
Got an early start this year sowing seeds indoors with a couple grow lamps. Cherry tomatoes, shishito peppers, red bell peppers, sugar snap peas – sewn (?) outside since they are cold weather tolerant – are all coming along nicely.
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