🔖 Read Four Ingredients for a Memorable Learning Experience (LXD.org) by Rodrigo J. Gallego

Studying up on Learning Experience Design & Research. Feeling it out for a potential career pivot in 2024.

🔖 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 “The Queerest of the Queer”: Listening to Garbage in the Nineties (Catapult) by Niko Stratis.

I enjoy Garbage so much and I appreciate this meditation on what Shirley Manson signifies about gender.

🔖 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.

🔖📚 Read After the Green Ribbon (Catapult) by A. E. Osworth

The Green Ribbon is a favorite of mine. I love Osworth’s discussion of how it marks gender and symbolizes vulnerability. I want a world where masculinity embraces vulnerability.

🔖 Read My Mother Has Terminal Cancer, and I Can’t Seem to Stop Buying Sweaters (Catapult) by Rachel Vorona Cote