🔖📚 Kate McKean writes in today’s Agents and Books about professional jealousy. Her advice applies to academics, too, and probably any field. “No one is being successful AT me.”

🔖📚 Read Cozy Flash: The Cat and the Conerian.

Adorable. Cozy fantasy is my current genre of choice.

🔖 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 Review: A riveting biographer — and mother — works to solve ‘the mind-baby problem’.

🔖 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.