Alex Dobrenko

Naive Weekly | Kristoffer | Substack

But the pleasant surprise: It has been enormously helpful in my attempts to resurrect and improve my rusty engineering knowledge, and level up my middle-aged forays into maker-ing things. The killer app for me is the ability to go deep in a domain for remedial learning. The most immediately helpful use-cases for me have been:

1. Getting back into

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It’s Not ‘Mess.’ It’s Creativity.

“I’ve always hated the phrase ‘speak truth to power,’ because it assumes all power is bad. It should really be ‘speak truth to power when the power is false or damaging—or even just plain bizarre,’” Swisher writes. Her rebuke to the Quaker slogan is idiotic, to be sure, but it is on to something, if only for the wrong reasons. We shouldn’t be... See more

Even as a kid, I always wanted the most words to rhyme. Say I saw a word like “transcendalistic tendencies.” I would write it out on a piece of paper— trans-cend-a-lis-tic ten-den-cies—and underneath I’d line a word up with each syllable: and bend all mystic sentence trees. Even if it didn’t make sense, that’s the kind of drill I would do to... See more

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I've had this frustration for a long time. But only had the impulse to mock up a tangible solution after reading Julian Lehr's beautiful reflection on Multi-layered Calendars.

Seeing others beautifully present ideas always compels me to contribute my own. Thanks to Julian for making the effort, and everyone else consistently publishing small,... See more