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Alexandrite members of the Alexandrian Youtube Channel can check out the latest After Action Report: This one taking a look at what a sequel session in my Mothership open table looks like. Check It Out!
Example from one of the worksheets Like a lot of my work, I take inspiration from many places. This post is going to reflexively unpack some of the process I used when taking the book Getting Research Funded: Five essential rules for...
Thank you to everyone who expressed interest in shaping OmFest. We’re still working out some details, but we’ve got a Luma registration page for the event up. Please join on September 29, 2026, Om’s 60th birth anniversary, for an...
The phone lit under a stack of hospice bills at 2:13 in the morning, and for a moment Mara thought some company had found one more way to ask for money from a dead man. She was sitting on the living room floor with bank statements spread...
Do you ever feel there’s too many ready-made answers that don’t fit your needs? Me too. That’s why I’m exploring an alternative: ’living questions’. Not quite Rilke, but also not not Rilke. writingslowly.com/living-qu… #NoteTaking...
In the wake of the letter calling on us to prepare to potentially Pace the Frontier, there has been much discussion of when pacing the frontier would be prudent, and whether it makes sense to prepare to do so. This has now been informed...
July was busy — like always — but we made sure to take some time and touch some grass. Or mountains in our case. With the high temperatures across Europe we went to the Trentino region and hike close to the Dolomites for 5 days. Cool...
A quote from Michael Coveny’s Guardian obituary of Sheila Ballantine (1928–2026), who was in Brecht’s The Resistible Rise of Arturio Ui with Leonard Rossiter and Alan Ayckbourn’s The Norman Conquests, among much, much else. Ballantine...
I'm being good and getting back to my monday blogging. I just wrapped up work which I did at home today because I ordered a switch 2 that is suppposed to be delivered today and I wanted to be there when it showed up so it wouldn't get...
My wife and I are watching the tenth season of Shetland (and looking forward to the eleventh, while mourning the recently announced departure of lead actress Alison O’Donnell), and I was delighted to see that one of the characters, a...
Oh my, 2011 was so long ago. This just came up in my memories, and now I feel ancient, I don’t even know him anymore.
Looks are Deceiving.Last year, Davidoff released an international travel exclusive fragrance called Indigo. I saw reviews for it in a few places, and a couple of YouTube reviews, but feedback on it is scarce, likely due to its limited...
Oh my gosh. Out yesterday on my bike to complete a 200km. I have been doing a least one long ride each month for the past couple of years. Occasionally much longer. I did not enjoy yesterdays ride at all. That is quite unusual. Something...
Because one healthcare horror story per day isn’t enough, I want to tell you the story of how I’ve been trying for over two months to get my uncle’s electric wheelchair repaired. It’s still broken. It still hasn’t even been picked up by...
John Gruber: Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was, in Fact, a Correct Rejection. Count me among those unsurprised that a purveyor of slop — fine artisanal slop, but slop nevertheless — was not an upstanding citizen. I...