Passdown Project
Exploring how we "pass down" things to our children and grandchildren in an increasingly digital world
Passdown Project
In conversation with friends, I realized that this was a common problem. My best friend’s home screen is a dizzying mass of screenshots, essays, and audio recordings for future reference. My mother’s internet browser regularly crashes because of the fifty-three tabs she keeps open at all times. My partner never deletes a photo without putting it on... See more
Bami Oke • Life in Fifteen Gigabytes - Journal #146
Community archives sites locally in nodes
I turned forty earlier this March, and as I enter my forties, I’d like to leave a breadcrumb to revisit when I’m fifty.
These four themes are what I intend to be guiding principles for how I live my life and prioritize my time in my 40s:
Peter Kangtwitter.comthe idea of leaving a personal digital 'breadcrumb' for 10 years down the line
We’re gardeners, and we don’t want these traditions to die off. Our kids are the seedlings. I’m doing the programming for the young people: We put a lot of energy and care into teaching our students the values and traditions of our community, and making them accessible. The work is a constant dance of responding to what the community needs now.... See more
How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves.