I use Obsidian the same way I use most productivity apps: simply. My email and my personal notes app have no folders. There are no tags in my task management system. If I’m not actively benefiting from a layer of complexity, I remove it from the system. In my experience, it takes at least a...
Ninn Salaün, a talented and expressive illustrator, seems to have equal skill wielding the pen as she does the proverbial brush if her ongoing short-form literary project is anything to go by: “Reports From Unknown Places is a daily project that aims to document meteorological and other natural events in various undisclosed locations since March...
I got an email this weekend from a reader that included (among other lovely things) a thought-provoking question: “If it’s a personal blog, why does the audience matter?” As I was thinking through my reply, I realized I could answer publicly and clarify something: my intention here isn’t to grow an audience. In my first...
Jason Velazquez recently wrote about the uncomfortable reality of the modern web. It’s a reminder that underneath all the fanfare about new technologies and how they’ll change our lives, a small group of companies have manoeuvred themselves into a place of unimaginable power. Nearly every platform, every app, every website, every AI model, everything that...
I had Friday off thanks to a company wellness day, and managed to convince my best friend Thomas that wellness requires cameras and companionship. With an abundance of both at our disposal, we grabbed our respective Ricoh GR IIIs (he, the classic 28mm version and I the 40mm variant) and headed downtown for the afternoon....
Not coincidentally, a couple of months before this new blog idea took root in my mind, I finished reading a fantastic book by Jess Pan. It’s about an introvert’s year of living as an extrovert. Jess celebrates introversion as a spectrum rather than a singular experience. She understands it because she lives it, so her...
That's what he called it: a fresh start. No content imports, no granular URL controls, no markdown. My new blogging software's creator was patiently explaining some of the limitations of the platform in this early iteration. Scribbles, a refreshing new take on hosted-but-indie blogging, is what you're looking at right now if you're visiting on...