Category: Weeknotes 🗓️
A weekly missive from the virtual desktop of Jay Springett. Begun as an attempt to cultivate a regular writing and posting rhythm. Weeknotes newsletters cover what I’ve been; reading, doing, thinking about, and include links recommendations, a good meme and more. Every week without fail.
He escapes into absurdity
The battle for freedom is not fought alone on the great fronts. It is fought in every home, in every community, in every state in the world. it is fought in the mind and heart of every man. Jack Whiteside Parsons – Freedom is a Two-edged Sword Narrative Returned from Berlin invigorated and renewed with…
“New Nerds”
I am/I’ve been in Berlin for a while. Right now I am typing this from Trust one of the many Blockchain Co-Working spaces that are in Berlin.
Stella Maris
The Shrine of Our Ladye Star of the Sea was an old chapel on the cliffs at Broadstairs. Dating back at least to the 1350s
A strange sort of collapse
Let nothing disturb you,Let nothing frighten you,All things are passing away:God never changes.Patience obtains all thingsWhoever has God lacks nothing;God alone suffices. — St. Teresa of Avila Narrative I walk from Bank down Bishopsgate. A man shouts ‘Standard’ over and over. I wonder if he’s an NPC: street dressing in the simulation. Though the new…
Eternity can be found in the minuscule…
….in the place where earthworms, along with billions of unseen soil-dwelling microorganisms, engage in a complex and little-understood dance with the tangle of plant roots that make up their gardens, their cities.”― Amy Stewart, The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms Narrative Despite all the stuff I’ve been up to so far this…
Every mile is two in winter
“Good words are worth much, and cost little.” ― George Herbert Narrative I think I’m going to move my post day to Saturday. Fridays is getting busier as the day I have to go in to London. It’s also the reason I’ve spent most of today hung over. I’ve spent the week grazing on the…
EndSerenading
Recovery from last week continues. A birthday and building of flatpack furniture.
Well, fuck them. Make it personal
Oh so sick, just mark the middle of our door with a red cross a foot long. I’m writing this with an extremely light head. Narrative Jay Springett, uno de los principales paladines del solarpunk como movimiento, el objetivo es responder a la gran pregunta: “¿qué aspecto tiene una civilización sostenible y cómo podemos llegar…
A rich palette of ecosystems
It’s frustrating that it costs you well over £10 to step out your front door in London. Hashtag 2018 I suppose.
Minister of My Own Labor
It’s been a strange week thats for sure but I’m not going to talk about that here. Narrative I’m now twelve days into my new social media diet. The essay “Avoid News, Towards a Healthy News Diet” by Rolf Dobelli has been a big influence on me since I read it back in 2012/13 ish. We…
I used to bother to post things here
I’m aware that I lament almost every time I bother to login to wordpress to post something… I used to write a round up of all the things that happened during the previous year but stopped in jan 2016.
EOY 2015
It’s been nearly a year since i posted here and the funny thing is the last post #017 was literally being a round up for 2014.
