Horsefinger

Habits and assumptions and the prospect of change — I just figured out why the keyboard tray seems to have done the opposite of what it was supposed to do. About a month ago, I got a pair of properly fitting glasses that made my prescription so much more effective. It’s brilliant — the world has crisp lines again…

It’s been exactly 5 years since I published “I Quit Liking Things On Facebook for Two Weeks. Here’s How It Changed My View of Humanity.” Here is where I landed earlier this year in March 2019. Aside from maintaining my Grace In Small Things group, I haven’t been active on…

A cheap and delightful pen mod — The Zebra F-701 retractable ballpoint pen is a beautiful writing instrument for one you can buy hanging off a hook in a stationery store for $8. It’s nearly uniform stainless steel body and knurled grip are quite handsome, but the pen falls short in one small area: its plastic push…

Get your email under control and kill your guilt. — I’ve been using email since at least 1994, and I’ve managed it on Rocketmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail, Outlook, and various email apps over that time. …

Creative will and capitalism don’t always play well together, but that’s okay. — It’s January, which means that there are a lot of life improvement things floating around. Life improvement things are sticky, and so I’ve been thinking a lot about words like “growth mindset” and “growth hacking” and “self-improvement” and “self-actualization”. I’ve been thinking about how we are influenced by the increasingly…