Favorite quote:
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children . . . to leave the world a bit better . . . to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived; this is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can still succeed now, maybe more so.
Cool videos to share with your kids:
I mean, just look at some of these:
Tilly the golden eagle flies above the Scottish highlands: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/tilly-the-golden-eagle-soars-above-the-scottish-highlands
Hummingbird frenzy: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/hummingbird-frenzy
Science experiments to do with kids: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/ten-easy-home-science-experiments-kids
Using YouTube as a platform for serving video but collecting it in a way that’s fun and better than using YouTube.
My favorite new for me sites/resources on the pandemic:
The Corona Virus explained:
Our World in Data, a brilliant site for interesting facts:
(the Coronavirus page I find particularly good: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus)
A blast from the past:
The origin of the name SEGA and other surprises in this strange-but-cool commemoration to 60 years of SEGA. I was such a huge fan of the Sega Genesis and SEGA ruled the arcades as well (another thing I was a huge fan of).
Music to revisit:
Lots of good new music out now (hi Caribou, Jay Electronica) but the Radiohead Public Library made me go back and revisit their discography.
https://www.radiohead.com/library
Writing process that I was thinking about:
This is what I do for everything I post:
Write all of my thoughts on a subject.
Argue against those ideas.
Explore different angles until I’m sick of it.
Leave it for a few days or years, then repeat those steps.
Hate how messy these thoughts have become.
Reduce them to a tiny outline of the key points.
Post the outline. Trash the rest.
From Derek Sivers: https://sivers.org/7
(also be sure to check out How to ask your mentors for help: https://sivers.org/ment)
Everything is going to be ok:
Is it? That depends.
Lastly, check out what we’re up to now.
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