Kimberly Hirsh

🔖 Micro.blog is one my favorite places on the Internet, and Jean MacDonald’s article A Guide to Micro.blog For People Who Have A Love/Hate Relationship With Twitter is a good introduction.

🔖 Read Cranking.

🔖 Read The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done.

I’ve been thinking a lot about personal productivity, what it’s good for and what it isn’t. This article is about a year and a half old now but it points in a direction of collective solutions.

🔖 Read Who Is Steven Hotdog? Or, Untangling the “Braided Essay” |.

What’s Steven Hotdog to me, or I to Steven Hotdog, that I should weep for him?

Ever since I learned about the Steven Hotdog essay I have loved this descriptor. Jess Zimmerman is one of my favorite writers.

🔖 Read 11 Bookish Accessories to Make Reading More Accessible.

I love pieces like this. Getting a book holder changed my reading life.

🔖 Read Should you ever NOT listen to user feedback?.

I’m exploring the possibility of a career in UX research & reading this article showed me that it’s definitely an area I could get into.

🔖Read Being a Public Librarian Can Be Dangerous Work, Why Don’t We Acknowledge That? - Electric Literature

Libraries are resolutely radical institutions. They are free to use and open to the public, spaces that demand nothing from you to enter and nothing for you to stay. No exchange of money occurs between library user and library, save for overdue book fees, which are becoming more and more obsolete. Libraries are sanctuaries for the mind, body, and spirit. They are repositories of language, literature, community care, and human growth. And they are also places of objectification, racism, sexual assault, and other human atrocities. They are embodiments of our history and culture, for better, and also for worse.

🔖 Read Projects: The Alastair Method.

Alastair Johnston has created a Kanban-like tracking system for the Bullet Journal that I may modify for use as an analog writing audit/pipeline.

🔖 Read ecosystem theory: how to reframe the “i do this or i do that” binary (Thrive PhD) by Katy Peplin

Such a helpful perspective.

🔖 Read Plan to rewrite NC teacher licensing could also raise pay, but it’s too early to say

Educators, what do you think? I’m not sure about the options for evaluation, but I like the idea of teacher leaders getting paid for their leadership work.

🔖 Read How to Use Evernote for Your Creative Workflow.

A couple key quotes:

Start acting like every idea you come across or come up with has the potential for brilliance, and that potential is more likely to be realized.

…don’t pursue goals; instead create systems that encourage attractors to emerge on their own.

🔖 Read The Secret Power of ‘Read It Later’ Apps.

🔖 Read One-Touch to Inbox Zero: How I Spend 17 Minutes Per Day on Email.

🔖🎭 Read Having a Child Meant Imagining a New Way to Make Theater (Catapult) by Lindsey Trout Hughes.

This resonated with me more than anything else I’ve read recently.

“I wanted not abandonment but expansion.”

🔖 Read I Gained 70 Pounds During COVID. Here’s What Happened On My First Day Back In The Office. (HuffPost) by Emily McCombs

A good read; not nearly as dramatic as the headline makes it sound.

🔖♿ Read Disability Status Shouldn’t Have a Hierarchy (Catapult) by s. e. smith.

Excellent column illuminating the challenges in and importance of recognizing disability as a spectrum of experiences.