This Public Library
@loveandlogic
It keeps my digital soul intact, yo.
This Public Library
TIL(aughed/earned), for some, “Bacteria” means the back door of the cafeteria.
About A.E. Housman | “…poetry was an emotional and physiological experience that began with a sensation in the pit of the stomach. The apparent discrepancies in this man who became both a first-rate scholar and a celebrated poet should be a reminder that, whatever else poetry does, it also records the interior life, a life that has its roots well beneath the academic gown or the business suit.”
“The laws of God, the laws of man,
He may keep that will and can;
Not I: let God and man decree
Laws for themselves and not for me;
And if my ways are not as theirs
Let them mind their own affairs.
Their deeds I judge and much condemn,
Yet when did I make laws for them?
Please yourselves, say I, and they
Need only look the other way.
But no, they will not; they must still
Wrest their neighbour to their will,
And make me dance as they desire
With jail and gallows and hell-fire.
And how am I to face the odds
Of man's bedevilment and God's?
I, a stranger and afraid
In a world I never made.
They will be master, right or wrong;
Though both are foolish, both are strong,
And since, my soul, we cannot fly
To Saturn or Mercury,
Keep we must, if keep we can,
These foreign laws of God and man.” Last Poems XII, Project Gutenberg
- You need shared contexts and shared interests. The reason why it’s difficult to make friends as an adult is because where there's shared context (seeing the same people over many months daily i.e. workplaces), there's a lack of shared interests. Where there's shared interest (hobby groups, bookclubs, etc), there's a lack of shared context. A place
Patricia Mou • Introducing "The Fourth Place" & Why "Third Places" Have Fallen Short on Their Promise
Programming in the long-term
0 to 1 says go from novice to master. Along the way, there was the supporter, the instigator, the field marshal, and the whole cast and crew. In the excitement to ideate, remember those roles that propelled you from novice to master. They contributed toward the outcome and continue.
Food For Thought and
Culture just bends toward whoever shows up. This should empower and motivate us as much as terrify us.
Matt Klein • Lessons From My Grandma Inventing DoorDash
DISCOVERTOOLS and
"Functionality creates trust, but it doesn’t create love. Whether it’s the way a waiter remembers your name or how Google Photos quietly curates your best memories into a story, connection comes from the human layer around functionality."