Thoughts

1. Pick a card

   I’ve collected a few card decks and books over the years. This year I’ve made a new habit of making time in my day to pick one concept from each, summarise and link in my Obsidian vault.

   

2. I deleted my Amazon account

   Continuing the slow process of Big Tech Exorcism™. This time Bezos’ nightmare factory is up for the chop.

   

3. One calendar month away

   The last 2 weeks have made it clear that people, culture and the planet should be at the top of our priority list. Join the ten empathic, future(s)-focused speakers and workshop facilitators at #ResearchByTheSea to find out how.

4. Prototyping self-expression

   Sketching out some ideas for making the Research by the Sea lanyard something that attendees might want to keep for later rather than throw away.

   

5. Pave the cowpaths

   Interesting to see Monzo releasing fully-fledged saving products within their app based on user-generated IFTTT recipes using their API. Leveraging interoperability as a way to innovate is a smart move. This https://ifttt.com/applets/GutUrxFv-take-on-the-1p-savings-challenge has become this https://monzo.com/features/1p-saving-challenge

6. Watching Async: How We Built the World Wide Web in Five Days

   Watching @rem@front-end.social and @adactio@mastodon.social walk us through building the World Wide Web in five days, from the comfort of my own home. We’ve come a long way! Thanks to Async for livestreaming! Do I spot @markboulton@typo.social and @briansuda@loðfíll.is in that pic too? Watch along here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XONerj4rE2I

   

7. I Deleted My WhatsApp Account

   After hearing about Zacebook’s CEO M. Fuckerberg’s move to align his range of poison products to the same toxicity levels of Xitter, I deleted my WhatsApp account in a heartbeat. Let the Big Tech Exorcism™ continue in 2025! #FreeTheFacebookPrisoners

   

8. Online/Offline

   That moment of confusion when you accidentally visit localhost in your browser and your Eleventy site is up despite it not being built locally. You then recall @adactio@mastodon.social helped you setup an offline service worker and what you’re actually visiting are cached pages. Then come the warm fuzzy feelings.

9. What are we doing?

   Social media platforms have suffered the same fate as Slack groups. The same people posting the same content across multiple platforms. So much wasted time, effort and energy. What are we doing?

10. Explore Explain Live!

    Excited to watch the Explore Explain Live! webinar to learn more about Dataviz. Hosted by @andykirk@vis.social and 6 other fascinating guests.