Hey y’all!

In every single renovation project, there is the ugly part. In the current reworking of the portfolio of publishing projects I have going on, I’m ass-deep in the ugly part. I’m several hundred dollars and many, many man-hours into it at this point, so I’m just powering through.

As I mention below, we had guests from out of town this week, which also didn’t help my productivity at all. And in my day job, I’ve been swamped because of some foolishness at the State Legislature. (One thing about Mississippi politics is that you can always count on foolishness at the state legislature.)

But anyway – here’s what I wrote this week, and here’s hoping that I can get all this wrangled soon. Thanks for your patience.

What I published this week:

• Streams of Consciousness: It was the end of the day, and I was fried, so I tried some magic.
• Transition Rituals: A brain hack I have learned, for moving from context to context
• Showing your work: If we want more people from disadvantaged backgrounds to have access, we must make it more accessible. And one way we do that is by showing our work.
• The Banality of Good: We want to believe evil is massive – but it isn’t, it’s banal. But so is Goodness.
• On Monday we had guests in from out of town, and my whole routine got hosed, so I didn’t publish anything at Humidity and Hope. But I did spend the morning putting the final touches on my Reader Survey results from my Monday newsletter readers, which I put up over at Leftovers.

Things I thought you might like:

The last few years have been an exercise in information management. The desire to not go insane and the desire to remain informed have been a precarious balance and one that most folks I know are struggling with. So, I liked Oliver Burkman’s ideas here around becoming News Resilient.

Some of you may recall that I have recommended Burkeman before as the author of the only time management book worth the time it takes to read it, called 4,000 Weeks. The number in the title is roughly the life expectancy of a human. (I call it a time management book here, but really, it’s a life management book. It’s beautiful. Really.)

I love swimming each day, but it’s boring - back and forth, back and forth - so I’ve been using this waterproof MP3 player to listen to podcasts while I do it. The jury is still out if I like it or not. Technically, it works fine - it's astonishing how well it works. But now I find I miss the boredom and time to just think.

The war in Ukraine is approaching a month now, and new horrors are revealed nearly daily. Early on I found The War Diary of Yevgenia Belorusets. She’s a writer in Ukraine, who has been documenting the war from her position there.

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