🔖📺 Watched Pokemon Concierge and read Pokémon Concierge’s Psyduck Is for the Millennial Pokémon Fans.
I’m a Xennial: Pokemon was more for the kids I babysat than for me, though I did get into the card game my freshman year of college.
Psyduck has long been my Pokemon soul mate, with her constant headaches and love of water. And this article articulates why Psyduck appeals to me even more in Pokemon Concierge.
🔖 Read The Web Renaissance Takes Off by Anil Dash.
Sign me up.
(I’m trying to make a web-related pun here about Lucrezia Borgia, but it’s just not happening.)
🔖 Read Ambient Co-Presence by Maggie Appleton.
This sounds really nice. My favorite locale for physical ambient co-presence is a university library, which I use a Winter Whale sound video to replicate at home. I use a few co& working sessions via a Mighty Networks or Zoom to do this, too. I wonder what the role of services like Focusmate or Flow.club is here.
🔖 Austin Kleon’s list of 100 things that made his year is excellent, as always.
🔖 Read 2024: The Year of the Personal Website by Matthias Ott.
How about, from now on, we make every year the year of the personal website – and make the internet human, creative, personal, and weird again?
I’m down.
🔖📚 Read How To Get Started Reading Romance Novels by Stephanie Fallon (The Good Trade).
This is an excellent guide. Also? If you have unkind things to say about romance as a genre, please say them somewhere else. They’re not welcome in my replies.
🔖 Read Bring back the blog by Alan Jacobs.
Hear, hear.
🔖💻 Read The Indie Web Manifesto.
Before the IndieWeb, there was the Indie Web. This was published in 1997.
🔖💻 Read The Hacker Manifesto.
the beauty of the baud
I love this turn of phrase.
We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn’t run by profiteering gluttons…
This was published in 1986.
🔖 Read True/useful by Seth Godin.
Seth shares a handy matrix for helping us stay resilient and cultivate belief, shaking off cynicism and avoiding traps.
