A friend asked me recently where I get my news. My reflex was to say “the BBC, probably.” But the question stuck with me, because the honest answer turned out to be more complicated than a single channel, and getting to it meant retracing about twenty years of deliberately rearranging how information reaches me.
A while back I heard a friend of mine flirting with a girl that I knew he was into. I could only overhear the conversation but he was going on and on about how he won't dance and he especially won't dance at a wedding because it’s awkward. He was a bit bigger of a guy and he even mentioned that as a factor for his awkwardness. I knew immediately that he had lost that girl's attention.
Vincent Di Fate is one of the most prolific Sci-Fi illustrators of all time. he has over five thousand works of art and a breath-taking portofolio that contains some of the top sci-fi authors of the genre. Vincent and I discuss art, life, and how to maintain such a high output.
Soul Eubanks is an Vegan activist that I first heard about when I saw his quote. "Some people are so skeptical of trying vegan food, they act like it's made out of dead animals" I found that hilarious so I reached out to him to have a discussion. As it turns out he is a musician as well. In this interview we discuss art, activism, music and veganism of course.
As of late I have been thinking a lot about just how bad the internet has gotten. Google search is almost useless as it’s full of ads and not real links for page after page. Content farms and bots have made actual human content hard to find. Social media is just a giant manipulative echo chamber and it’s all done in the name of business and extracting every last penny from the user of the site.
How I finally replaced my noise machine and nightstand clock with my iphone.
In my quest for minimalism i’m always looking at how a device can fill multiple rolls so I need less items.
With the new standby mode I can replace my bed side clock. I have also been playing with using my iPhone to replace my noise machine that I did have setup with HomeKit to turn on at 9pm and off at 11pm. Using my phone is a bit more manual but i like that it’s very intentional. It is nice when I travel that I have the same noise machine on the road as I do at home. So I got a mag safe stand and have that and one HomeKit light by my bed. It looks a lot cleaner and it’s simpler.
