Our friend David Hooker is an amazing artist, and we’re so excited about this fabulous new pot we got from him.

Huge if true

Over at my Buy Me a Coffee page, I explain the new ways I’ll be using micro.blog.

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. πŸ“š

Cal Newport: β€œThe open office boom is right up there with the spread of Slack as representing the peak of early 21st century distraction culture β€” 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. πŸ“š

I keep taking pictures of live oaks because they have such distinctive interior architectures – what the poet Hopkins called inscape.