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BITS & PIECES

I collect interesting information, thoughts and visual inspiration throughout my day, which I save here. Below, you’ll find insights from books, a wide array of images and links to varied sites. especiallyI enjoy browsing through past highlights.

Caste is insidious and therefore powerful because it is not hatred, it is not necessarily personal. It is the worn grooves of comforting routines and unthinking expectations, patterns of a social order that have been in place for so long that it looks like the natural order of things. Isabel Wilkerson in Caste
— Isabel Wilkerson, Caste
A caste system is an artificial construction, a fixed and embedded ranking of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups on the basis of ancestry and often immutable traits, traits that would be neutral in the abstract but are ascribed life-and-death meaning in a hierarchy favoring the dominant caste whose forebears designed it. A caste system uses rigid, often arbitrary boundaries to keep the ranked groupings apart, distinct from one another and in their assigned places. Isabel Wilkerson in Caste
— Isabel Wilkerson, Caste
The real threat to creativity isn’t a language model. It’s a workplace that rewards speed over depth, scale over care, automation over meaning. If we’re going to talk about what robs people of agency, let’s start there. Let’s talk about the economic structures that pressure people into using tools badly, or in ways that betray their values. Let’s talk about the lack of time, support, mentorship, and trust. Not the fact that someone ran a prompt through a chatbot to get unstuck. Greg Storey in The luxury of saying no.
— Greg Storey, The luxury of saying no.
I think that what we were being taught was less a body of knowledge than a way to be in the world: orderly, organized, attentive to direction. There is nothing wrong with developing those skills—in fact, I’ve learned the hard way how useful they can be. What is wrong is their fetishization, the way they were allowed to outrank the actual body of knowledge held within algebra or English lit. The result was that “learning” felt like a kind of bait and switch. And this frustrated me because I truly did love to learn—it just so happened I learned best away from my desk, where ideas and concepts could be made tangible. Ta-Nehisi Coates in The Message
— Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
I think many of us who are teachers and professors have forgotten that the syllabus serves the student, and all around us are teachers, administrators, and columnists who seem to believe that material should be hard for the sake of it and that education itself is best when rendered not in wonder but in force. Ta-Nehisi Coates in The Message
— Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
Chasing TikTok users doesn’t build a better platform for writers. It builds a different platform entirely. The value proposition collapses when your infrastructure for thought becomes optimized for the attention economy. You can’t serve two masters. You either build a tool for writers or you build an app for dopamine hits. Once you choose the latter, you’ve already traded your audience. Joan Westenberg in This Is Peak Featurecide
— Joan Westenberg, This Is Peak Featurecide
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I love that the plans are open source so anyone can quickly make their own.
A simple to make stool that does double-duty as a pin-up board or sign holder.
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Standing bbq area design - Home Decorating Trends - Homedit
The Expanse Poster
The Expanse - Galaxy Poster
The Expanse
From Ukraine's 11th International Book Arsenal Festival
Blade Runner
Outdoor kitchen
A pseudo-illustration of a koala captain of the Bear Space Force looking into the camera.
A pseudo-illustration of a polar bear captain of the Bear Space Force looking into the camera.
A pseudo-illustration of a resigned badger mechanic in the Bear Space Force looking into the camera.
A pseudo-illustration of a determined racoon/badger hybrid mechanic in the Bear Space Force looking into the camera.
A pseudo-illustration of a rabbit mechanic in the Bear Space Force looking into the camera.
A pseudo-illustration of a grizzly bear pilot of the Bear Space Force looking into the camera.
A pseudo-illustration of a panda pilot of the Bear Space Force looking into the camera.
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