trebek: late summer, nighttime, before the internet, giant trees ushering you home, bugs in the porch light
contestant: what was lost
A while back Kottke wrote on Jason Fried's "I've never had a goal". That's a stance that comes naturally to people with fixed mindset; even back in middle school I was pushing back mightily against my mom's proposal for me setting goals for grades, preferring to promise to put in a good effort and see where I ended up.
I mean, I know that's as much "failure avoidance" as anything positive, but still, interesting work gets done. I still have a lot to learn about leaning into those challenges that are intimidating me and challenging my ego about being wikkid smaht and triggering my fear in feeling incompetent, but I'm not sure "goals" is the answer.
What about you? Where does goal-setting fit in?
RIP Mary Oliver... admittedly I hadn't heard much of her stuff but she seems to be really important to a lot of people--
I posted this link to the Consolation of Philosophy webcomic two years ago, and then reposted it last year. Maybe I will start a January 16th tradition... "There's so much stuff that matters, but so little of it matters to my well-being!"
I feel like "Don't Get It Twisted" is a more LGBTQ-friendly way of saying "Get It Straight"
RIP Carol Channing! I got to see her on Broadway in a 90s-era revival of Hello Dolly! - special stuff.
January 14, 2019
Its my best attempt so far to make sense of the decades I've been around, and clear out some of the natural fog of memory.
If anyone wants to make one of these for themselves I'd be happy to help them.
On my devblog I go over all the drafts that lead me to the final design.
One of those cases where I wish I had better channels to get it to even more people - at one point I had pipedreams of making this a product, but I recognize a lot of people don't have the raw dates or photos at hand, and maybe they are less interested in their history as I am in mine.
My response to a "challenge" going around, where people post a picture of themselves from like 10 years ago
In 2008 I liked turkey legs. In 2017 I preferred pickles. Also I have a short beard.
PS what is this challenge all about anyway? it feels like some weird "build raw data to improve our facial recognition algorithms."
