David Thomson on Ingmar Bergman
Currently reading: The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: Sixth Edition by David Thomson. This is another one of those that I won’t be finishing any time soon – and won’t ever “finish” in any strict sense. 📚
Cal Newport: “The open office boom is right up there with the spread of Slack as representing the peak of early 21st century distraction culture — a period in which the knowledge sector completely disregarded any realities about how human brains actually go about the difficult task of creating value through cogitation.”
Finished reading: Analogia: The Emergence of Technology Beyond Programmable Control by George Dyson. A fascinating, frustrating, and in the end I think incoherent book. 📚
I keep taking pictures of live oaks because they have such distinctive interior architectures – what the poet Hopkins called inscape.
Every morning when I’m putting my shoes on. Every. Morning.
hiatus
Heads up, friends: I’ll be taking a break from this blog in order to work on several projects — some essay-length, one (or maybe two) book-length — that my daily commentary here has been distracting me from.
But while I’m away from here, I’ll be more active than usual at my micro.blog page, because links and images that I would ordinarily post here I’ll be posting there. The plus for you, dear readers, of my relocating to micro.blog is that there you can subscribe to a weekly digest of my posts.
And of course my weekly newsletter will continue.
I wrote for Echoes, the H.E. Butt Foundation’s magazine, about repairing to the canyon to be repaired.