Farewell, Ribbonfarm.

Another day, another news article using the smoking photo. I’ve lost count at this point.

Another day, another use of a creative commons photo I took in college. This is by far my most widely published photo, taken late one night on the quad while we were taking a break from putting together that week’s newspaper.

• Do more collaboration
• Be short status
• Do more spaced repetition. Probably Anki.
• Travel is the only way to understand the depth and breadth of the world.

Any general-purpose strategy you have which will cause you to pay attention to the world is incredibly valuable

Fediverse governance can work, and here is the quickstart guide. Here is the full report.

I love the IndieWeb Carnival posts and should start participating!

I’m loving the recent updates to Gravatar. Here is my updated profile: https://gravatar.com/cagrimmett

Contrary to what Imran, Ken, and I’m sure many others at Humane believe, the iPhone didn’t begin with their work in the 2000’s on Project Purple. It began in 1976 with the Apple computer, and the decades of goodwill it built up in consumers. The project was spearheaded by a guy ready to waste billions in iPod revenue if it helped achieve his vision, and he answered to nobody. It came together at the perfect point in time, when everyone knew the power of the Internet, but there wasn’t a way to carry the whole experience in your pocket. You can’t replicate all these factors in a few years, no matter how much money a VC throws at you.

I love this insulator imagery!