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Hello/Salut Interoperable readers! I'll spare as much of the New Year dribble as I can. This year will be less about setting challenging goals and more about maybe "themes?" to borrow a term from the venerable duo of Myke Hurley and CGP Grey. This year&
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Photo: The author in front of Lego spaceman mural, Soho, London July 2022 Hello Interoperable readers! And welcome to August 2022. These days I now see August with two faces. As a kid, August would mean an end to summer holiday freedom and a return to school with its rigour
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Photo: Regent Street decorated for Pride, June 2022 Hello Interoperable readers, June was merely a decent reading month, not the great reading month I might have hoped for. I must admit that news from my home country that Women's rights are being stripped away has made my largely
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Photo: Cows grazing on the slopes of Horsenden Hill, a favorite local walking spot of the author who is also the person who took the photo. June 2022 Alright, we're halfway through 2022, the year where I've tried to be more intentional about my reading. I
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Photo: Piccadilly Circus London, UK Sunday 5 June 2022 Credit: The Author Greetings Interoperable readers! (Nearly all half dozen of you!) Another month has passed and it's time to recap my mission to attempt to read five books a month, every month for 2022: 1. Beyond: The Astonishing
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Photo: 207 Bus towards White City. Photo Credit: The Author Whew! April was not a kind month. Between (finally?) catching the virus and travelling in haste to care for an ailing relative, I did not dig as deeply into my reading backlog as I would have liked. Frustratingly I only
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Photo: Two-up on a scooter, just outside of Holland Park. London, UK 2022 Credit: The Author Interoperable readers! Maybe you're new here or have forgotten about my 2022 Reading Challenge, there are some rules/goals I set for myself. Basically, I want to try to complete five
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Image: El Lissitzky, Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge, 1920 “Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.”— President Dwight D. Eisenhower Alright, so I am riding a self-care high. I just left my 4th incredibly productive therapy session, I'm listening to Judge John Hodgman, and I
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Photo: National Art Library London, UK (Credit: The author) In my current note-taking application of choice, I have a small section called "External Brain" where I dump handy nuggets that I think will be useful or that I am in the process of internalising. I thought for
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Time to go over another month of my 2022 reading challenge (rules are posted here). Overall, February was anxious and not a personally productive month. I can probably write a whole post on the whys and hows behind that. But overall, I'm pretty proud of the reading and
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I can't remember where I first saw this little meme/macro above; it was probably on are.na (which is hopelessly hip Pinterest). Despite being hopelessly hip, the artsy nerds on are.na have that, je ne sais quoi, that creative spark that has been vacuumed up from
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I should have written this long before I posted the dismal results of my January Reading Recap. It's never much of a challenge if there aren't any rules. I don't want to bog reading down with too many restrictions, but I don't