Julie and I are in a YouTube rut — the algorithm keeps throwing videos I don’t want to watch. What are some YouTube videos and channels you like. Under 15 minutes per video because life is short and rounded with a sleep and who has time for long videos not me.
My newsletter migration is complete! (I think)
I think I have successfully moved my mailing list from Mailchimp to Micro.blog. If you’re reading this in email, you’ll know I did it right. If you don’t see this post, please message me and I’ll get it straightened out (hahahahaha — I make a funny, yes?).
Here’s where you can subscribe to my newsletter. It’s a daily digest of posts I make here.
Micro.blog is the service that I use to host mitchw.blog. I recommend it.
Thanks to @manton for making the process (relatively) easy. A couple of bumps but probably nothing at all to someone with a bit more skills than I have.
A colleague was working in a library and got shushed by the librarian and a fellow patron.
I was immediately impressed and jealous. I haven’t been shushed at a library since I was 17 years old.
The small, prosperous Parsi community of people in India leave their dead out naked in the forest to be consumed by vultures. [99percentinvisible.org] — Learning about this tradition horrified me at first — but only for an instant. The Parsi tradition is no weirder than burying dead people, burning them up, or chucking them in the ocean. The Parsi tradition just seems revolting to me because I’m not used to it.
I’m in Inoreader several times a day, every day, workdays, weekends and holidays. It is one of those products that makes me wonder if the people who build it actually use it.
I spoke bluntly at an internal team meeting this morning. I fear I am so not invited to the presenter’s Bat Mitzvah.
… lesson one from pilot school was “fly the plane.” Strange noises? Fly the plane. Zero visibility? Keep flying the plane. Stomach bug kicking in? Fly the plane. Whatever was going on, first you had to fly the plane. Then you could try to address everything else. He saw that as something of a life lesson. Whatever is most important is what you have to do first, despite distractions, interference, or a powerful desire to be elsewhere at the moment. And while you can be on autopilot a lot of the time, when things demand your complete attention, they have to get 100% of your attention.
Om Malik: The future of writing: How AI will shape our tools.
AI doesn’t write for me, but it helps me write and I expect more of that.
“Mayor of Kingstown” is like if Scorsese made a TV series and decided his movies were too family-friendly and sunny.
We watched three episodes, and we’re done. It’s a fine series, but the news is depressing enough.
Garbage Day: “Project 2025 is the policy paper-equivalent of a school shooter manifesto…. The Republican Party is full of weird men that talk like The Joker and all you really have to do is hold a mirror up to them and they fizzle. My most steadfast view of American politics is that it’s not about having coherent political beliefs or clear policy objectives, it’s simply about not being a huge fucking weirdo.” Yes.