We are in a situation where a large number of people worldwide are presenting with an illness that currently cannot be objectively explained. It seems that medicine was caught unprepared and that it doesn’t know what to do and what to think.
And then I had a great conversation with @cm! Today was the day to reach and talk to interesting strangers. Turns out Chad and I have a lot in common and we will be recording on Home | Racket soon.
I had a great chat with @warner this morning. We connected thanks to Micro.Camp and had a fascinating, wide-ranging conversation. Thank you, Laurence!
I came across this today in the Chronicle of Higher Ed:
I cannot possibly overemphasize the fact that I am neither unusually gifted nor very industrious nor really disciplined. I finished all of that writing with a deceptively simple system of doing just a little bit of work, mostly every day, and trusting that the “brilliance” (or acceptability) of the whole would come together through the drudgery of many, many, many (many) smaller, less-brilliant parts.
A New Series on Scholarly Productivity: ‘Are You Writing?’
The author is summing up the Agile project management process in a way that I haven’t seen before, but which resonates for me.
By the way, my kitty is doing very well. She’s the one who developed kidney disease in May and I was super worried about her. We do infusions for her about twice a week, she’s switched to expensive kidney diet food, she’s regained all the weight she lost and is as fun as ever.
Y’all, I have so many tabs open due to all the interesting speakers at Micro.camp! It’s going to take me a while to process all this fascinating information.
Currently reading: Home by Marilynne Robinson 📚
I’ve been curious about the “Teams” feature in micro.blog. I wonder if I could use it to bring my extended family over here from Facebook.
Features I want:
Simple account setup for family members. I’m willing to handle any complexity on their behalf, but I want it to be so easy for them. The no password/email link method would work well for my relatives.
Automatically following each other in the family, so that the Timeline at first for a new person shows all of our family posts and only our family posts. They can of course choose to follow others on MB, but to begin with, they are following everyone in the family.
Their own MB web pages are optional. If they want to grow into using their web pages they can, but they don’t have to.
iOS apps and Android apps are easy to log in to and use.
Getting ready for Micro Camp 2021: August 13-14, woo hoo!
Finished reading: Housekeeping: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson 📚Beautiful writing. Perhaps an unreliable narrator? I believe that yes, someone should have intervened to prevent two people from becoming the lifelong unhoused.
Hey, Micro.Camp! I’m doing a talk about Agile project management … what do you want to know? I’m recording a short video and wondering what information to include. Your input would be super valuable!
View from our local mountain
I ran sound for a wedding rehearsal yesterday in this beautiful spot. It was the first time I had touched a sound board in over 18 months.
Shared housing is the answer to the nationwide crisis of affordable housing (I serve on the board of this nonprofit)
Finished reading: My Century: A Novel by Günter Grass 📚 My continuing reading project into German/Polish post-WWII history. This one is quite accessible and informative without being pedantic.
Loving my new Stream Deck! I’ve only had it for one day but it’s worth it just for the ease of managing Toggl timing. I’m also enjoying the Apple Music button displays the current album art.
I’m finally moving from LiquidPlanner | Planning Intelligence For Smart Projects to OmniFocus after 15 years. I’m looking for OmniFocus best practices, who are your favorites or what is your structure? I have Kourosh and Sparks.
Interesting community science project
Brain imaging before and after COVID-19 in UK Biobank | medRxiv
We identified significant effects of COVID-19 in the brain with a loss of grey matter in the left parahippocampal gyrus, the left lateral orbitofrontal cortex and the left insula.
Ugh. I installed Big Sur on Tuesday on my iMac. Now I’m having intermittent network issues – it looks like the iMac is sucking up all my bandwidth (fiber 250M). Reboot fixes it for awhile. Apple Support gives me dumb advice. I make my living on the Internet! Frustrated.
Currently reading: The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates 📚
Finished reading: The Arrest: A Novel by Jonathan Lethem 📚
Finished reading: All for Nothing by Walter Kempowski 📚 I’m reading books about Germany and Poland during and after WW2. This one is especially brutal and especially good. It’s the mundaneness of the banal cruelty that is giving me nightmares and that’s the point.
Here’s my utterly baroque method for cooking breakfast cereal.
In a double boiler, add
Cook for 30 minutes, give it a really good stir, let it sit for 15 minutes, give it another good stir. Let it sit for 6-10 hours, then refrigerate.
Heat it up in the microwave, about 2 minutes. Add lots of fruit, fresh yogurt and some soaked chia seeds.
This amount feeds my husband and me for two breakfasts. We look forward to it every single day, year round.
Our local library is partnering with a new international market to do “Spice of the Month” where you can pick up a new spice and check out a cook book. This month’s spice is fenugreek.
I just spent some time in Facebook (trying to keep it to no more than once a week) and then came here to Micro.blog. The difference is stark! I have such a collection of interesting and thought-provoking posts here in MB. Thank you all.