[Confidence is like a shrug: “Okay, no problem.”]
Let’s talk about changing American foreign policy….
[Build power for yourself and your community instead of borrowing it from elected officials.]
[If you want to make a difference in areas where the USA invades, you’re better off buying solar panels or an electric car because it helps shift the dynamics to not require the resources for that intervention.]
[Each new tab feels like a choice: how do I want to spend my time?]
What a ’new tab page’ this is! I prefer queries (via keystroke launchers like Quicksilver or ‘Command-K’) over big lists, but this is beautifully personal and makes me drool; stable options can leverage muscle memory and reduce distractions. 👍🏽
Provokes me to wonder about social patterns and ‘formats’ like /now or ‘daily note’, ways of organizing that many people can practice and share so that we can all learn from each other.
Growing your own food is the highest form of meditation.
[Soak cardboard in water for fifteen minutes, wrap around a glass jar, and remove just before dry. Use as a plant pot and place in soil to prevent root interference.]
Individual initiative, corporate inertia and good bad advice
Good luck finding books that somberly advise corporations on how to encourage a dangerous reliance on unsupervised individual inspiration.
A company needs to be able to treat its employees as interchangeable and expendable, both individually and collectively. It needs to be able to periodically layoff 17% of its workforce to cut its margin overhead by 1% and temporarily boost its stock price by 5%, without having to endure existential upheaval to its ongoing business processes. It needs to be able to double and redouble recklessly in size for the same dubious market reasons, without those people all piling up in the lobby where their chaos is visible from the street.
The key to these flexibilities, as we have understood at least since Henry Ford, is to formalize the operational roles so that their function in the overall system is symbolic and anonymous. As long as people are just units inserted into well-defined slots, the machinery doesn’t need to care who they are.
The secret truth of business advice is that it’s mostly about how to grimly extract residual value from the luck you already had, and the unearned love you were already unguardedly given, because there’s really no method for making more of it.
what happens in the conversations I have with the ppl I’m coaching
[I offer: space away from the rat-race to reflect, breathe more deeply, move deliberately; a good bullshit detector; place to practice, prepare, or role-play tough future conversations; help to find the right amount of stretch in your development goal without overdoing to short circuit progress; encouragement if you need someone telling you to quit your job.]
[Improve your interpersonal dynamics by seeing the relationship as something that can be co-designed in process rather than ‘agreed upon’.]
[My formal training is in engineering and agriculture. I coach because people ask me, not because I’m certified.]
[Smaller organizations might not be able to afford leadership coaching from professionals but can afford peer-to-pear from like-minded companions.]
[Welcome:
- Does everyone feel invited to participate?
- Does the space guarantee users a safe experience?
- Does the space encourage the humanization of others?
- Can people express themselves without compromising their identity and data?
Connect:
- Does the space cultivate a sense of belonging?
- Does the space encourage fruitful connections between groups that aren’t naturally alike?
- Does the space strengthen emotional, structural, and participative ties to geographically local communities?
- Does the space make it possible for people to be heard by those in positions of power?
Understand:
- Does the space allow for shared concerns to be raised for broad attention by society at large?
- Is the information being elevated and shared reliable, factual, and true?
- Does the space build civic competence and encourage democratic participation?
- Does the space promote thoughtful conversation and room for respectful disagreements?
Act:
- Does this space boost a community’s resilience in the face of significant stress or adversity?
- Does this space facilitate our ability to participate in each others’ lives and shape society?]
Paul’s notes on how JSON-LD works
[The JSON-LD data model is a graph with documents as nodes and properties as edges to other nodes or ‘values’.]
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@vocabmaps a default prefix to keys not mapped explicitly in@context].
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@contextprovides only definitions to map your keys, it’s not a type.@typeis a type, and can be defined with a URL or a term from@context.
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@id’s value is a reference to another object or node.]
[Chop fresh herbs to bash with oil, or press into butter, or flavour plain yogurt into a sauce.]
In autumn, roast a whole butternut squash. Smash it in a bowl with good olive oil, a little freshly grated Parmesan, and a lot of freshly cracked black pepper. Spread the squash thickly on the toast, drizzle it with more olive oil and a squeeze of lemon juice, and sprinkle it with roughly chopped toasted almonds.
[Stale bread can’t be bought. You must wait for it.]
bread soup that’s true to the spirit of bread, which is that if you have it, all you need to turn it into a meal is whatever else you have.
[Form leftover bread soup into cakes and fry with olive oil into pancakes; probably better than either the soup or the bread.]
Almost any fruit tastes good sliced, laid out on a plate, and sprinkled with salt and olive oil. Most taste good with herbs, or onions, or olives, or chiles, or nuts added, too.
[Share a list of ways you can help as a consultant, then offer a sliding scale of hourly rates.]
At this point I basically upgrade iOS when there are new Progressive Web App features.
How to save money and making a homemade cleaning spray out of lime peels!
[Chop finished lime peels and put into a spray bottle, add 1/2 cup cup white vinegar, 1 tsp salt, a bit of dish soap, and fill the rest with water. Shake and spray for a nice household cleaner.]
Apple System Preferences URL Schemes
Open a macOS preference pane via URL like file:///System/Library/PreferencePanes/Keyboard.prefPane or terminal with open "x-apple.systempreferences:<PaneID>"
How do I play a YouTube video in the background on my iOS?
[Start a YouTube video full-screen via Safari, then:
tap the home button or swipe up to show the home screen;
when playback stops, open the back ground audio controls in control center;
then press Play to resume playback in background.]
How to concatenate two MP4 files using FFmpeg?
(echo file '/alfa/bravo.mp4' & echo file '/charlie/delta.mp4' ) > echo.txt
ffmpeg -f concat -safe 0 -i echo.txt -c copy foxtrot.mp4
If you have a website, what are your earliest meaningful links that still work? I have almost no broken links since 2012.
a “protocol” sync engine, with multiple storage backends, and hooks to tie into “storage providers”, would be an amazing public good
Let’s talk about Biden, banking, and overdrafts….
[USA banks make over eight billion dollars a year from overdraft fees (by charging people who don’t have money).]
The difference between a blog and journal is the title field.
Instead of queuing ideas onto an infinitely expanding todo list, blogging (or microblogging) about it can be a useful way to find synergy. If someone else had maximum information to pick up where you left off, maybe you’d be free to do other things?