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What interesting things could use a library? What needs some sort of dedicated repository — whether online, in a book or museum or other space, for an audience…

One from the archives! It’s always fun to revisit old drafts and surprise myself with the weird stuff I wrote way back when. Some is just weird; some…

A list of favorite books, particularly ones that have had a long-term impact on how I think about or interact with the world. Sparked by this discussion on…

Have you ever tried coming up with a really great pangram? It’s surprisingly difficult! A pangram — aka a ‘holoalphabetic sentence” (thanks Wikipedia!) — is simple to define;…

Everyone knows that just by splitting your tasks into focused 25-minute increments, and like listing them out with proper prioritization, and fixing bum in chair daily — such…

Here are my reading notes for an interesting book I just finished reading, all about libraries and the organization of knowledge: The Dynamic Library: Organizing Knowledge at the Sitterwerk…

Holy hell, Unicode is fascinating and incredible! I recently found a list I’ve been keeping of my favorite typographical symbols, then got curious and spent hours today scrolling…

Why do I so often feel like art is broken? When it comes to how we conceive of arts education, and how we’re taught to practice and recognize…

The title of this post is a quotation from The Autobiography of Malcolm X. The entire book is incredibly compelling. But this phrase, and the section it comes…

Random fun idea: adding layers of content and modes of interaction to one’s website — say, for example, mine! What might this look like? This line of thought…

An idea I had a while back — catalog my micro-habits, my movement patterns and granular choices, the small things that make up my daily routine. I figured…