LOGS
Ideas floating along in my stream of my consciousness
LOGS
Biking is the closest thing to flying like a bird that most of us will ever see.
Productivity is so insidious, much akin to riptide. As soon as you dive in, it pulls you deeper in, and despite how hard you try, you're basically swimming in place, tiring yourself out and more likely to drown in it. The more productive I try to be, the more I feel like I'm falling behind.
Some of this can also be attributed to the tools we try to
... See moreAn idea is different than a story. An idea can be sparked by a pattern noticed or an observation seen. But on its own an idea is not a story. A story is a compelling way to communicate ideas to others.
Its important to consider the the appropriate contexts for technologies, asking ourselves if this usage or behavior brings us closer together or further apart. Or if its usage comes at the expense of other's well-being. Tools inevitably change how we interact with the world. We need to build technology that enables experiences and opportunities to
... See moreCaptured by convenience: There is urgency and perceived inconvenience inherent at any efficiency a tool or technology enables. Cars vs. Bikes, Planes vs. trains.
Noting the insidious side effects of more efficient technology, both of the bullet journals vs TeuxDeux, written vs typed, car vs bicycle — doing something for the speed sake of convenience/efficiency leads to this compulsion to further optimize, to continue to automatic reflexive behavior, the downward spiral of trying to do/go more places — inste
... See moreHow can I encapsulate this tension I'm noticing into a story? Supercharged tech: blindly hurtling forward without consideration of where we're going or how we'll land.
I've realized that I get so many ideas while doing things that require enough of my conscious attention (hiking, biking, showering) that they cause my self-editing mind to take a back seat.
Intrigued to do observational creative expression (writing, photography). Work that forces me to keep my eyes open to things hiding in plain sight in day-to-day life; the paradoxes, the themes, commonalities, the absurdities. To see things in a way that we hadn't before.
Style is a series of choices that we make and formula we develop for representing things in a certain way it's the lens through which we look at the world and the rules that we apply when we try to re-create that.