I’ve been attracted the the venerable todo.txt approach: app-free, text file based. But I’ve never quite been able to make it work for me. Now I find that there’s a similar calendar.txt method, which I will also try and, I’m pretty sure, find that it won’t quite work for me. I think the moral is that in getting apps out of my life it often makes the most sense to go straight to pen & paper rather than trying stripped down computer gizmos.
Every now and then Fr Thomas Hopko’s 55 Maxims for the Christian Life resurfaces online. Always worth another look.
From Dense Discovery, a good suggestion: rather than the awful “What do you do”?, ask “What do you like to do? Such a difference. A question I wouldn’t hate to be asked.
Cory Doctorow in his (default) inflammatory mode: For tech firms, capitalism was a transitional phase between feudalism…and technofeudalism.
Deep down a typographic rabbit hole, trying to get my WP program to do hanging punctuation. No luck so far.
Read R W Kimmerer, The Serviceberry. Short, provocative; good thoughts on the possibility of a ‘giving economy.’ “What if scarcity is just a cultural construct, a fiction that fences us off from a better way of life?” My thoughts turned to the economic attitude (not system or program) of the Gospel.
Kevin Williamson made me smile (grimly): There is a cliché about not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good, and it’s a fine piece of wisdom as far as such maxims go, but the perfect is not the only enemy of the good. The bad, for example, is also the enemy of the good.