Using the Beta I’ve been using Stream for Mac in its default mode for quite a while now and I really love it. I can see things I need to tweak but the overall shape and stability of the app put…

Listening to some old stuff today

TransLink recently released its 2025 Bus Speed and Reliability Report and found that bus delays caused by congestion are a significant concern, slowing bus travel times and costing TransLink about…

MELBOURNE | When musician, Tamer Taşkaya, set out to open his own bar, music was his starting point. He teamed up with musicians and architects, Emily Crocker and Jack Monte of Studio Heck, to…

Sucks ass. Firstly it is extremely small and had only 2 bed spots, while we always with 3 people. No piloting place, for the controller, charges, the drone. Very low celling - never can be in full…

Here are a few things I’m sharing this month: 1. Question: “Where did we nourish and foster the creative imagination that permits you to bring into the world something that does not now…

Here at Flagrant, we’re big fans of our fur babies and critters alike (we even have a dedicated Slack channel to share photos with each other). This week’s Delightfully Friday Junior is brought to…

The number always doubles. The comfort never arrives. Here's why the finish line keeps moving — and what it means to finally define enough.

I realized recently that Halls cough drops do more than assist with a cold. They also assist with your mental health! These are some of the phrases I’ve captured on the wrappers than come with…

I looked it up.

A mantra to push decisions down and let your people own the outcome

Misha Glouberman on how worried we should be about climate change, based on what the studies actually say. This was hopeful. While we still ought to do everything we reasonably can to avoid making…

The strongest organization I advised last year was also the most fragile. Nobody inside the building could see it, because everything was working. Revenue was up. The flagship program had a waiting…

Something I've been struggling with recently has been what I'll call choice insanity. Now, that's just because I can't think of anything better to call it, but choice paralysis doesn't fit quite…

Today, I officially turned 44, as being an entrepreneur. Let me briefly walk you through what happened and how it got here.

Learn how to prepare clean Word manuscripts and mark PDFs for book production—avoiding unnecessary formatting and using styles correctly to save time.

lately, I've been having a hard time falling asleep. I can't call my bf or my family because they are several hours ahead of me in a different timezone. thus, I lurk on Bear Blog. i need to sleep,…

I am off to Espelkamp, where mittwald run their Event Head in the Cloud. After sending in a Call for Papers, I found out that they’d wanted me to open this years summit with my talk “Weniger Slides.…

It's been very hot in the UK* for the last week, so much so that the weather agency issued a warning, suggesting people should not travel unless they really need to. The last few days have been…

Has anyone mentioned it's been a bit hot in Europe recently? With 34° - 36° C forecast for today, and red weather warnings for heat from the Met Office, I thought it best to stay indoors in the cool…

”Do you see how you’ve grown? Don’t be sorry, then.” hello, Today was my graduation. I guess I hadn’t really thought in depth about what it really meant until it was over. It wasn’t bittersweet,…

The LeadershIT Podcast Episode 55

There is this Universal Stigma, that if you are not making a full living as an artist, you are not really "a true artist". Since when the term "artist" heavily linked towards monetary gain? When…

this is a theme i've been running into quite a few times in the past year or so. i've been trying to make efforts to improve the quality of my life by: going out more, either touching grass or…

moving forward doesn't happen in a straight line

"you really shouldn't care so much what others think of you" is a beautiful name for a baby girl. a perfect closed loop system. if Khrushchev and Kennedy blocked each other on instagram during the…

Second edition of my seasonal magazine discussing the things in fashion I'm into right now in fashion.

I still owe you another genealogy deep-dive, but it's going to have to wait (again) because there has been a development (of sorts). We all know that Bill can't run for mayor this time around - not…

It requires a different sort of mental toughness to run an enterprise. The juggernaut of switching context is one; the uncertainty is another. It feels like sailing a rocket ship in uncharted…

i'll have to look into like a tarp or some other protective cover for when it rains unexpectedly, but it was my first attempt at gardening (with my dad) so i'm just glad we got to see something grow…

I think we’re all familiar with the true statement that “relationships are built on trust.” One way that you trust in a relationship is seeing through the moment to the person…

Free conversations with a neutral sounding board

I was at Studio Litho a few weeks ago recording some stuff. Just me and a guitar, a few folk covers and one original song. I've been writing again after a long drought following the Car Trouble…

How I use Anki to learn anything

Multiple months of patch notes extrordinaire for your eyeballs.

Short one. One the way to the airport I left my phone with both sims in a rental car. It's probably stuck in that country for a couple of months. The flights were delayed, there's a heatwave, so…

This is my submission for the June 2026 IndieWeb Carnival. The theme is “No way!?”, hosted by Alex Hsu. It is widely known that people don’t remember the first 1-3 years of their childhood,…

The Algorithm brought me this job ad:

In my first job, I built an app for people to sell their old clothes to one another. Sure, it had developed into something more culturally specific, a marketplace for hype beasts to speculate on 80s…

The things I write the most are thoughts, ideas, introspections, because for me is hard to write about my life. It doesn't have to do with the fact of if I publish it or not, generally I can't write…

0.0 Context Setting Wednesday, June 24 2026 in Portland, Oregon where the high today is 86f/30c and the high in the U.K. was 97f/36.1c, and yesterday 40 drowning deaths were reported in France over…

One of the most useful things I learned in the past few years is that doing the work and making the work visible are two different jobs, but of equal importance in a “big boy” corporate…

Her there. I hope you are doing well :) Today I want to talk a little about letting things - people, things, friendships - go. Or more precisely, my inability to do so. Recently there have been two…

Jack Naglieri solo-founded Panther Labs in 2018 after reaching a conclusion he couldn't shake: security is a data problem.Over the next eight years, he built the company around that idea.…

Councils across Melbourne have united to get the State Government to add bus services and improve networks. This comes in the form of a resolution from the Municipal Association of Victoria passed by…

I’m typing on my phone holding horizontally. It feels a bit weird, I don’t usually write this way. Usually I write vertically or “portrait” mode or whatever you call it. I kind of like this way…

Trust your team, protect the culture, and outsource the work without outsourcing the understanding.

This spring, we moved to Greater Liverpool. Cambridge has been a fine place for many years, but it was time for a change - more scenery, more sea, a proper city. Now, exploring new communities, new…