still rules youtu.be/oRn_dGg4x… #metal #doom

Astonishing: A Wartime Zine Made in 1943-45 by a Jewish Man Hiding From the Nazis

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collage art from zine of a gorilla dressed in a nazi uniform

Amazing these survived, and how incredible the design and artwork is. This type of collage style design work was all the rage when I got into design in the 90s, and this man’s work just shines through, as it was obviously extremely constrained and authentic in the message they were portraying.

Installed busycal last night from setapp after trying it a long time ago and immediately dismissing it because it was so ugly. It’s actually kinda nice now? Seriously considering saving the money on the fantastical subscription next time around ๐Ÿค”

an extremely handsome capybara

a capybara we met in japan

App Defaults 2023

Inspired by the App Defaults page that lists the stuff a bunch of different people use, I figured I’d make one too. I live for this shit.

๐Ÿ“จ Mail Client: Currently using Spark (via SetApp), but might go back to Fastmail UI in a tab
๐Ÿ“ฎ Mail Server: Fastmail
๐Ÿ“ Notes: Notebooks (Plotter, Midori, Field Notes), Obsidian digitally
โœ… To-Do: Notebooks (Plotter, Midori, Field Notes), Ugmonk Analog, Things 3
๐Ÿ–‹๏ธ Pens: Pilot Vanishing Point, Studio Neat Mark One, Lamy Multipen
๐Ÿ“ท iPhone Photo Shooting: Halide via action button shortcut
๐ŸŸฆ Photo Management: Photos.app
๐Ÿง‘๐Ÿปโ€๐Ÿ’ป Photo Editing: Darkroom
๐Ÿ“† Calendar: Fantastical
๐Ÿ“ Cloud File Storage: iCloud Drive
๐Ÿ“– RSS: Feedbin, web UI on desktop, Reeder on phone
๐Ÿ“š Book: Kindle on Boox Palma, Libro.fm and Prologue for audio
๐Ÿ™๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ Contacts: Cardhop
๐ŸŒ Browser: Arc on laptop, Safari on phone
๐Ÿ” Search: Kagi
๐Ÿ˜ Mastodon: Phanpy and Mona
๐Ÿ’ฌ Chat: Messages, Signal
๐Ÿ”– Bookmarks: micro.blog, Goodlinks
๐Ÿ“‘ Read It Later: Readwise Reader
๐Ÿ“œ Word Processing: Obsidian, Ulysses, Google Docs for work
๐Ÿ“ˆ Spreadsheets: Google Sheets I guess
๐Ÿ“Š Presentations: Google Slides because I have to, Obsidian advanced slides plugin when I can
๐Ÿ›’ Shopping Lists: Reminders
๐Ÿด Meal Planning: Mela
๐Ÿ’ฐ Budgeting and Personal Finance: Empower (formerly Personal Capital)
๐Ÿ“ฐ News: Apple News, Mastodon, YouTube
๐ŸŽต Music: Apple Music
๐ŸŽค Podcasts: Apple Podcasts (because it works in my car now), Snipd is pretty rad though
๐Ÿ” Password Management: 1Password
๐Ÿš€ Launcher: Raycast

I’ll probably write individual posts for a bunch of these things over time, we’ll see how far I get. It’ll probably end up like Sufjan Stevens making an album for each state.

a onewheel in the foreground with the columbia river gorge in the background

living in oregon is pretty rad #onewheel

just finished watching the Hillsong: A Megachurch Exposed documentary, and damn. megachurches just doin' the megachurch thing. how could anyone not know that carl lentz dude was a gigantic piece of shit from the very beginning?

Lingua Ignota #photography

A singer performing on stage, illuminated by a spotlight, singing into a microphone with emotional expression, while surrounded by a crowd.

God DAMN this song is absolutely perfect youtu.be/liVnl2gIdhs

a wide mushroom that's kind of orange with white dots

a cute mushroom i saw on the trail

woman in a pink puffer jacket from behind looking at a sunset over the ocean with a seagull flying over head

took a trip to Yachats for my birthday, the Oregon coast is amazing

black and white photo of the silhouette of Botch playing on stage with a dude doing a big thumbs up in the crowd

Botch in Portland #metal #nostalgia

A cozy workspace with an open notebook, pen, markers, and a disposable coffee cup on a wooden table. In the background, shelves are lined with various figurines and memorabilia under warm ambient lighting. A decorative table lamp with a wireframe shade.

Notebooking at Wonderwood Springs

had a really fun holiday party for work last night

HAHA! BUSINESS BOOKS

A man in a business suit ecstatically laughing with his head thrown back and fists clenched in a triumphant gesture, holding a stack of books in one arm against his side. The man is Caucasian with short, tidy hair, wearing a black suit, white shirt, and a grey tie. He is outside, possibly on a city street with buildings in the soft-focus background. The image has a candid, spontaneous feel, as if capturing a moment of pure joy. The text at the top reads HAHA BUSINESS BOOKS! in large, white, capitalized font with a drop shadow to make it stand out against the background.

๐Ÿ“š My work is giving me access to a business coach, which has been pretty cool. I’d been thinking it would be pretty nice to have someone to talk to, essentially like a work therapist, and then I got added to a program at work that gives people access to BetterUp, which is BetterHelp for work, without all the podcast ads. I filled out a survey thingy and they matched me up with a coach that could help with the stuff I wanted to talk about. We had a kickoff session and they seemed like a good fit, so we scheduled some weekly sessions.

In one of the sessions I was telling them about a big project I’m helping lead and the questions I had about how to get the word out to the right people, get them to buy into the vision, get excited, etc. After talking things through for a bit, they assigned a PDF to me that was an excerpt from Harvard Business Review by some dude named John P. Kotter. It was titled “Leading Change โ€“ Why Transformation Efforts Fail” and it was originally published in 1995, the year after I graduated high school. Almost 30 years ago.

I was skeptical.

As I read it, though, I found myself nodding my head like an old lady in the front pew of a Baptist church. This mf was spittin'. He was laying out pretty much all the stuff I was facing and struggling to formulate strategies for to a T. And, he had an Eight Step Planโ„ข I could follow to address everything I was worried about, as well as all the stuff I hadn’t yet considered.

Which made me realize that none of this shit is new. The same politics, bureaucracy, and jockeying this dude was writing about from the mid 90s is the same old stuff every business is still dealing with. For all the technical advancements, management trends, LLMs, real-time collaboration, etc., good old human dysfunction will always reign supreme. Undefeated World Champion.

Anyways, I just finished listening to the full book on libro.fm (referral link for a cool Audible alternative that gives money to the local bookstore of your choice) and, while obviously dated and read by a dorky narrator, it was all still super relevant. I went to Powell’s and bought some more of his books used to read over the holiday. If you’re working on trying to introduce some big changes at work, check out this 30 year old book full of apparently evergreen ideas.

๐Ÿ–‹๏ธnotebooking at wonderwood springs