A View Inside My Mercurial Mind

I am a voracious highlighter of RSS feeds and email newsletters in Readwise Reader, an accumulator of songs in my Spotify “Liked Songs,” and a saver of “Watch Later” videos in YouTube, often with the thought that I should, one day, blog about whatever I’m noting. These piles of interesting things have now risen to the point where I need to disgorge them all at once. Here goes.

Music

• Night Vision, by JJ Heller and and Sandra McCracken. I am not constitutionally programmed to love Christian folk, but this song’s got me by the tail.
• Little Blue, by Jacob Collier. If you need an introduction to Collier, David Weinberger has you covered.
• Different When It Comes to You, by Bruce Cockburn.
• We Surrender, by The East Pointers. My favourite of a crop of their recent great tunes.

Videos

• Bruce Guthro Last Song, with Jodi & Dylan. Guts me every time.
• Steve Knightley - Romeo and Juliet.
• Bruce Sterling, Reboot 11 Closing Talk.
• The Raconteurs feat. Ricky Skaggs and Ashley Monroe - Old Enough.
• SCTV: Gerry Todd, and Michael McDonald (and McDonald’s memories of it).
• Casual by Chappell Roan but Make It Indie (Winnetka Bowling League).
• George Carlin, Stuff. I used to play this on my community radio show, from vinyl; I think about it every time I pack to travel.
• How One Building Changed Filmmaking (368 Broadway).

Blog Posts

• My approach to GTD and PKM, by Justin Duke (“It’s easy for me to overfocus on short-term urgent work to the detriment of longer-term, more important but less time-sensitive work.⁠”)
• Just do the thing, by Annie Mueller (“I start doing something I care about. I’m enjoying the rhythm. The feeling. The action.”).
• Creel Flies to Paree, by Thelma Phillips.
• Better conversations, also by Annie Mueller (“If things get really uncomfortable/you get bored, consider a spontaneous interpretive dance. It’s amazing how quickly people can exit a conversation when they really want to.”)
• Night Drive, by James Reeves.
• P&B: Alison Wilder, because who doesn’t like being referred to as a “wonderful person” by a stranger!
• Safari URL Bar, by Jamie Zawinski (a helpful hint for making the URL field longer).
• Parable of the Sofa, by Tim Bray.
• Note to Peter, by Elmine Wijnia. I love this reply.
• Silk Screen Printed T-Shirt, by Ton Zijlstra. Would but for the world work like this in general.
• Why accessibility is good for business (according to my mechanic), by Nic Steenhout (“Why should I?” he shrugged. “You’re the only disabled customer I have.”).
• Green Bay Packers 2023-24: Game Sketchnotes, by Mike Rohde. I took Mike’s Sketchnote Lettering Workshop, and use the lessons I learned every day.
• Earle’s Paintings, by Rob MacDonald.
• Release Notes: How to make self-hosted maps that work everywhere and cost next to nothing, by Chris Amico.