: How to be interested in everything Thomas Edison claimed he was interested in everything “One day while Mr. Edison and I were calling …
: To build something big, start with small fragments Building something big from something small. That’s how everything big gets built. 💬 …
: Let's have another new logo Matti is unimpressed that the notetaking app Obsidian has a new logo. Change. It happens all the …
: 📷🐋 Just when we thought we would see nothing, this humpback whale popped up at the mouth of Broken …
: The lost index cards of Harold Innis Chris Aldridge has discovered yet another writer who used index cards to construct an extensive body …
: With the rise of large language models (LLMs), we are once more suffering from La Stilla Syndrome. …
: Jules Verne could have told us AI is not a real person A castle of mysterious voices In one of French writer Jules Verne’s many sensational novels, …
: Very happy the videos are already available from micro.camp. It was frustrating to be (not) watching …
: I read the top ten Zettelkasten posts on Hacker News so you can do something more wholesome with your day I really did read a lot of geeky Zettelkasten posts and now I’m going to share them with you …
: More than ever, embracing your humanity is the way forward. Innovation makes people panic. Every so …
: 🍳📷 I made this. Just saying.
: 📷🐦Though they’re a common site on Sydney Harbour and the Parramatta River, I rarely see this …
: Thanks to a post by @chrisaldrich I was finally prompted to write about Aby Warburg’s …
: Aby Warburg's Zettelkasten and the search for interconnection Aby Warburg and the compulsion to interconnect Aby Warburg was a German art historian obsessed with …
: Emotional Ignorance by Dean Burnett 📚demolishes the old myth that we only use 10% of our brains. …
: Was Dracula foiled by a gang of obsessive note-takers? May 3 is the date Bram Stoker’s famous novel, Dracula begins. It’s a classic tale of …
: 30 years of the World Wide Web. An incredible journey! I recall wondering if it would supersede …
: More discontent in the world of academic publishing. It’s amazing how far the brightest people …
: “The question: what are you making with your notes?” An important question, and a great …
: “Everyone needs their own thinking space.” Sometimes it’s a room of your own, …
: “Do you know exactly what you want?” It’s a very good question. I do, and my word of the year is …
: An amazing Femi Kuti concert last night. The recordings are great but they don’t do justice to …
: 📷 Golden early-evening light on the route home.
: The Writer’s Journey began as a memo. Working at Disney during the 1980s, Christopher Vogler …
: April already 📷📚It’s April already. Do the months slip past ever faster? Autumn has arrived again and it’s …
: 💬 “In a society that profits from your self doubt, liking yourself is a rebellious act”. A magic …
: Personal publishing is still the future The online writing gurus say it’s pointless starting your own blog, because no one will read …
: Can’t believe I’ve only just found out about the Parks board game. (Hat tip to John Chandler) …
: Visited the Wildcat Zine Fair in yesterday’s rain. Did I mention I really like zines? Something …
: Adding two plugins to the website this morning. ‘Search space’, by @sod is now at 1.0 so definitely …
: We think best when we bring opposites together “We think best when we bring opposites together, when we realize that all these realities, one …
: 📷 Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 31: “practice “. Keeping the instruments out and ready to …
: 📷 Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 30: “mirror” Penultimate day of the photo challenge!
: 📷 Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 29: “slice” One of our local bakeries does a quite decent …
: 📷🚲Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 28: “prompt” I like to keep this old prompt front-of-mind: …
: 📷 Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 27: “support” Sydney has many more bridges than just the …
: 📷 Day 26 of the Micro.blog March Photoblogging Challenge. The prompt is ‘instrument’. This small …
: 📷 🌮Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 26: “variety” Fond memories of the time my kids and their …
: 📷 🌮Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 25: “spice” When I searched my photographs for “spice”, …
: 📷 Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 24: “court”. Walking through the parks near my house just …
: 📷 Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 23:”chance”
: 📷 🐝Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 22: “insect” Just in time for a photograph, this native bee …
: 📷 Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 21: “tiny”
: 📷🪴Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 20: “houseplant” In hot weather, spraying the leaves of this …
: How’s your coffee art these days? I predict big improvements for my game. ☕️
: 📷 🗂️🗃️Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 19: “analogue”
: 📷 Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 18: “portico” When it comes to fancy architecture, nothing …
: A gift from my son: three intriguing books for my to-read pile (which never seems to get any …
: 📷 Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 17: “early”. Cloud on the headland, slow to …
: 📷 🚴Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 16: “road” Came across a surprising sign on a cycling tour …
: 📷🐈 Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 15: “patience” If you wait long enough, something is bound …
: 📷 Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 14: “horizon” Mysterious Lake George. The …
: 📷 Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 13: “connection” At work I’m into …
: 📷 Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 12: “shiny” It’s often very bright at my …
: 📷 Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 11: “gimcrack” The very opposite of gimcrack: a …
: 📷 Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 10: “ritual” My daughter goes surfing almost …
: 📷 Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 9: “together” Spotted during my regular bike …
: Micro.blog March Photo Challenge Week 2 Preview Just thought I’d provide a preview1 of week 2 of the photoblog challenge. Week 2 prompts: 🗓 …
: 📷 Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 8: ‘Walk’ Exploring the mangrove walkway at …
: 📷 Micro.blog March photo challenge, day 7: ‘Whole’ The leaves of my Swiss cheese plant, …
: 📷 Micro.blog March Photo Challenge, day 6 “Engineering”. This time last year we were …
: You don't build art, you grow it Finished reading: Dancing with the Gods by Kent Nerburn 📚 This book is advice on the artistic life …
: 📷 Micro.blog March photo challenge, Day 5: Tile. A home renovation uncovered these original hearth …
: 📷 March Micro.blog photo challenge day 4: Zip I imagine commuting by zip-line to my office in the …
: I woke before dawn to find someone had left a beach campfire alight through the night. As the sun …
: 📷 March Micro.blog photo challenge day 2: Weather The view from the train window this morning neatly …
: 📷 March Micro.blog photo challenge, day 1: Secure Well, that’s what the cat’s feeling, …
: Can AI give me ham off a knee? Last night I lay awake thinking about how AI-automated writing is about to change our entire …
: When someone believes they have no expertise, that doesn’t mean they have nothing useful to say. We …
: Free books! 📚 TIL: A search on Amazon Kindle produces loads of free academic book titles, many of …
: Putting yourself out there attracts people who are likeminded. That’s one benefit of making it …
: Despite AI, the Internet is still personal Blogging is great and it will never die. That’s why I keep coming back to it and you do too. Dave …
: A home to endangered pied oystercatchers. The city is just visible in the distance.
: What I saw on my bike ride this moring - a view through the bird-hide window.
: Footnotes Footnotes For some reason I really like footnotes. And sometimes 1 it’s good to see the …
: Finished reading Cold Enough for Snow Finished reading: Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au 📚 This was a quite mezmerising read. It …
: The coming ellipsis eclipse Eclipse of the ellipsis: should you be worried? Apparently, using an ellipsis marks you out as …
: Here’s a photo of where I live. It wasn’t sunny today though. Today we had nearly 10cm of rain. In …
: Why I'm writing slowly There’s an emerging movement in favour of ‘slow productivity’. And writing is one …
: Want to read: Pirate Enlightenment by David Graeber 📚 I’ve long been fascinated by the idea …
: The thing about advice is that people do what they want with it Currently reading: Dancing with the Gods by Kent Nerburn 📚 I know nothing at all about Kent Nerburn, …
: Finished reading: Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout 📚 This was an intriguing character study. Lucy …
: Can sentimental writing ever be as exact as reality? Finished reading: The Forest of Wool and Steel by Natsu Miyashita 📚 There’s a section of the …
: Big changes at writingslowly.com New year, new website (backend) It’s a new year, so it must be time for new web connections! …
: The past is as urgent as ever Finished reading: The War of the Poor by Eric Vuillard 📚 This incendiary novella - only 66 pages …
: Visions of a utopian Middle Ages Finished reading: Matrix by Lauren Groff 📚 I found this an intriguing, highly fictional …
: My piano is a forest Currently reading: The Forest of Wool and Steel by Natsu Miyashita 📚 I love the metaphor of the …
: What I learned from Austin Kleon about sharing what you know Learning and sharing, sharing and learning. It’s a virtuous circle. That’s what I …
: Without democracy, no true creativity Finished reading: Against Creativity by Oli Mould 📚. This is a critique of everything symbolised by …
: I'm now @Richard@mastodon.au - yes I joined Mastodon. There's an original idea. As though there …
: Not thinking of writing a novel in November Well, I didn't sign up to NaNoWriMo, where you undertake to write 50,000 words in a month. Partly, …
: Thinking of writing a novel Manton mentioned NaNoWriMo and that has got me thinking. …
: Living beneath the shadow of the past In former times people lived their lives beneath the shadow of their past. The golden age was always …
: My range is me The actor and film director Taika Waititi made an interesting comment on his creative process: "I'm …
: You can get a lot done by writing slowly “People say to me, ‘Oh, you’re so prolific’…God, it doesn’t feel like it—nothing like it. But, you …
: When I publish a post with no title, where does it go and who gets to see it?
: Thanks to Tom Critchlow, I now know a simple JS trick for including the micro.blog feed into a …
: Best albums of 2018 Thanks to NPR’s list of great albums of the year, I found Jeremy Dutcher, Wolastoqiyik …
: I had forgotten that posts to my wordpress site only show up on micro.blog if there’s no …
: Finally the iPad Having finally got hold of an iPad, I’m expecting more posts here soon - and by extension on …
: zines I'm imagining writing a handful of 'zines and setting up stall at one of those 'zine fairs. I would …
: Great bike ride down the river and along the bay this morning. Cold to start but warmed up nicely. …
: You have been warned It starts innocently enough, then they take over the world. You have been warned.
: Fit for humans Vrypan says ‘social networks don’t scale socially’. It’s true. We need a distributed alternative to …
: A big win for civilization in England? A judge has ruled that a local council in England needs to …
: What keeps me from blogging? Mark Sample asks himself what it is about blogging that keeps him from blogging. For me, to be …
: Shelter [caption id="" align=“alignnone” width=“393”] Olivia Chaney - …
: Blogs are back According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, blogs are back! The article references one of my …
: Should I read the Indieweb Guide? I’ve now added the Indieweb plugin along with webmentions. Looking forward to finding out how …
: Only sinners left down here I miss my old habit of blogging regularly. It used to make me happy. I like the idea of cultivating …
: Just by posting on my site, the post is automatically mirrored to micro.blog
: New micro.blog account I did in fact add a micro.blog account, which you can find at micro.blog/writingslowly (but it's …
: I’m thinking of adding a connection between this site and Manton Reece’s micro.blog …
: Welcome Hello,Thanks for reading my first post here. As you can see the site certainly lives up to its name. …