Scribbles

Twitter - as a traffic source - has no inertia whatsoever. If you’re not feeding it with links all the time, your traffic plummets.

After almost a year of leaving my website live its life, I’ve come back to it. I spent last week errands reading my past articles, my notes, my scribbles, etc. Everything.

And I enjoyed it! It was a surprised for me. I thought I’d be more blasé about my own production.

Turns out, I ended up being quite proud of what I wrote. I loved the words, the design, the articulation. I even learned a few things I had forgotten. Build a minimal feature flags manager in under an hour is one of my favorite posts from these past months.

So sometimes, just raise your nose from the keyboard, and enjoy the work you’ve put out there. It’s rewarding.

The best career advice I’ve ever heard, courtesy of Jodie Whittaker’s parents:

Whittaker says she never once suffer negativity from her family. “The only discouragement I got was from a career adviser when I was 15 who told me [acting] was a stupid idea. She said you need a back-up plan, and thank God, my mum and dad are completely adamant that that’s the wrong way to go. They said ‘You’re only 15, you don’t need a back-up plan. Get a back-up plan if it all goes pear-shaped at 30. Just go do it’. I went ‘Yeah!’.”

I had a spare bit of solid wood table top. I decided to turn it into a console-table for my amp and turntable.

I was able to cut all necessary pieces into that single piece of oak. Only had to buy a beech gudgeon to assemble the feet.

I’ve assembled and glued the feet. Waiting for the glue to dry. Then, I’ll oil everything.

[2020-07-20 update] Glue and oil are dry. Final assembly is done. Ready for some music.

Some new sensations:

• the smell of dry bamboo sticks when it rains
• the sound of birds in the morning
• the sound of cicadas in the afternoon
• seeing the mountain when I look over the distance
• walking paths barefoot
• sourdough bread + fresh goat cheese + honey + grain coffee == joy

Acquiring languages != learning languages

This video describes my own path with getting intimate with the English language these past years:

• no grammar, no corrections
• listen to people describing simple things for you
• talk as much as you can, to whoever you can
• read stories you already know in your target language
• do not focus on “learning”, accept that you’ll suck at it for some time

I’m currently acquiring German that way. Ich kanne noch nicht Deutsch sprechen aber verstuche ich ☺️.

More great resources on acquiring languages (versus learning) on Juanito’s murmur.

Read tonight in Jessica Dore’s April tarot offering:

One of The Fool’s active ingredients is the lesson—derived from myths—that in a troubled society salvation always comes from the outskirts, not the center.

Jessica Dore

You tell me that I make no difference

Well at least I’m fucking trying

What the fuck have you done?

True that, fuckers!

Finally managed to create anchors for each scribble. Now I can share specific ones with friends without having them to scroll through the entire page.

A small improvement I’ve stollen from Juanitofatas’ murmurs. 🙏