{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"Micro.blog - Finn","home_page_url":"https://micro.blog","feed_url":"https://micro.blog/posts/finns","_microblog":{"about":"https://micro.blog/about/api","id":"1650091","username":"finns","bio":"An experiment in learning in public.","pronouns":"","is_following":false,"is_you":false,"following_count":1,"discover_count":0},"author":{"name":"Finn","url":"https://finns.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2024/52/1650091.jpg"},"items":[{"id":"89185653","content_html":"

“Strategy is accepting that you are doing something better than the other and the other is doing something better than you. You have to pick your fight.” – Axel Dumas, CEO of Hermes

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via Sari Azout

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I gave too much of myself away. Not just code. Myself. My time, my energy, my emotional bandwidth, my identity. I made myself a public resource and then was surprised when the public felt entitled to my resources.

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I don’t know too much about the open source world, but this resonates.

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Open Source Gave Me Everything Until I Had Nothing Left to Give

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Note to self: Only a to do list is a to do list. An email inbox is not a to do list. Open tabs are not a to do list. Open files are not a to do list. Only a to do list is a to do list.

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This is a test of a full post: finns.micro.blog

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I’m back! I wanted a space to post again! This is just a test!

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As nation states rise, fall, and change shape, who decides whether and when to retire a country’s domain? When a domain is deleted, what happens to all of the websites and mailing lists under it, and all of the knowledge they contain?

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Yugoslavia’s Digital Twin

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“It’s scary to think that you could buy a piece of medical equipment for your hospital, just to have the manufacturer wake up one day and decide they will monopolize all repairs for that product,” Nathan Proctor, senior director of consumer rights group PIRG’s campaign for the right to repair, told 404 Media. “The people who are trained to fix that equipment won’t suddenly forget all they know, but they will suddenly be restricted from doing the repairs. I think that’s just absurd.”

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via 404 Media

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Gall’s Law:

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A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.

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via Jorge Arango

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From Jesse Alford at Nonlinear Garden:

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Slice smaller, finish, reorient. Feed your intention with victory. Let the parts of you that are afraid you will never progress see that it is not true.

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I loved the way this whole piece made a parallel with Several Short Sentences About Writing.

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Disability Dongles: finns.micro.blog

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Fascinating article on the sparkles icon, which has proliferated as an indicator for AI.

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DNF’d Playing to Win by Alan G. Lafley at 16% because the first chapter was so repetitive that I lost all faith in the author.

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From Alice Sparkly Kat:

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We don’t use astrology to manufacture doom. We use astrology, which is a divination tool, to help us narrate the futures we are building. The future isn’t something that happens to us. It’s what we build together. That is what we use astrology to narrate—a determined vision of the future that supports our inventiveness.

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Revisiting Promotional Principles for Creative People, a collaborative project from Metalabel.

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Lots of interesting additions in the comments, including this quote from William Zinsser:

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Believe in your own identity and your own opinions. Writing is an act of ego, and you might as well admit it. Use its energy to keep yourself going.

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And Corita Kent’s Ten Rules.

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Energy audits: finns.micro.blog

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A website makes it real: finns.micro.blog

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I decided to code my own website and here's what happened (Part 1 of many): finns.micro.blog

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Maybe I’ll start to adhere to a one-in, one-out policy when it comes to my inbox. For each newsletter I subscribe to, I need to unsubscribe to a different one.

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Public domain image of the day. Armour & Co.\nPortrait of Electric Light Installers, c. 1904. National Gallery of Art.

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“Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.” - Linus Torvalds

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A metaphor is a system for sensemaking.

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\"Illegibility comes from complexity without clarity.\": finns.micro.blog

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Spent some time in the Gapingvoid Culture Design Group archives. I liked these in particular.

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Simplicity is Complexity Resolved - Gapingvoid

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The Psychology of Sugar Water - Gapingvoid

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When Small Becomes Tall - Gapingvoid

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