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Another month has passed - October 02021
Nov. 1st, 2021 08:56 amLet's begin with the firm understanding that people are infinitely more valuable than things, expressed in a way that stuck with someone who had spent a lot of their time having negative experiences over broken things.
In the same vein, A Twitter thread about all the science we have that says hitting children is universally bad for them.
And the idea that burnout may be of different types, each requiring different solutions to get a person back on good terms with their work (or co-workers). Because all the experiences that we have in our lives contribute to the things we do and what comes out in our creative efforts.
The creator of Nimona and head of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power has a Substack of comics about his life and experiences. I really like his style of writing and drawing, which seems like a shallow thing to say with the seriousness and gravity of the topics themselves, but it's true. There's something about the style itself that helps with the subject matter. Definitely worth a look.
Simone Biles is unquestionably the greatest gymnast of a generation, not just because of what she could do on the apparatuses, but also in the fortitude involved in choosing herself and speaking up about the abuse she suffered.
( Plenty of other things that may be of interest to you inside )
Last for tonight, Medusa laments being a plaything of the Gods, even if there are a couple perks that go along with it.
And reasoning like an engineer when confronted with a novel problem or a black box. Which, coincidentally, was the name of a "guess where the stars are in this unknown box based on knowing the rules of how beams fired into it should behave" that I never was all that practiced at.
A playlist of two songs, constructed based on the responses to a survey about what styles, instrumentations, lengths, and so forth of music the respondents enjoyed and what they detested. This was in 1996, but the "Most wanted song" sounds pretty much like popular music of the 2020s, so clearly they were on to something about how replicating what most people have been taught to believe is musical, even if on closer look it's chaotic, still produces a general feeling of enjoyment. On the Most Unwanted Song, the seams are more obvious as it's intended to be wrong. (All the same, there are genuinely enjoyable parts of that piece, and I have to congratulate the musicians involved for doing exactly the thing that was written on the page without trying to make it better.) The lyrics are available for both songs if you would like to know what's being sung.
And finally, building an October holiday skeleton that is house sized, rather than large sized.
In the same vein, A Twitter thread about all the science we have that says hitting children is universally bad for them.
And the idea that burnout may be of different types, each requiring different solutions to get a person back on good terms with their work (or co-workers). Because all the experiences that we have in our lives contribute to the things we do and what comes out in our creative efforts.
The creator of Nimona and head of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power has a Substack of comics about his life and experiences. I really like his style of writing and drawing, which seems like a shallow thing to say with the seriousness and gravity of the topics themselves, but it's true. There's something about the style itself that helps with the subject matter. Definitely worth a look.
Simone Biles is unquestionably the greatest gymnast of a generation, not just because of what she could do on the apparatuses, but also in the fortitude involved in choosing herself and speaking up about the abuse she suffered.
( Plenty of other things that may be of interest to you inside )
Last for tonight, Medusa laments being a plaything of the Gods, even if there are a couple perks that go along with it.
And reasoning like an engineer when confronted with a novel problem or a black box. Which, coincidentally, was the name of a "guess where the stars are in this unknown box based on knowing the rules of how beams fired into it should behave" that I never was all that practiced at.
A playlist of two songs, constructed based on the responses to a survey about what styles, instrumentations, lengths, and so forth of music the respondents enjoyed and what they detested. This was in 1996, but the "Most wanted song" sounds pretty much like popular music of the 2020s, so clearly they were on to something about how replicating what most people have been taught to believe is musical, even if on closer look it's chaotic, still produces a general feeling of enjoyment. On the Most Unwanted Song, the seams are more obvious as it's intended to be wrong. (All the same, there are genuinely enjoyable parts of that piece, and I have to congratulate the musicians involved for doing exactly the thing that was written on the page without trying to make it better.) The lyrics are available for both songs if you would like to know what's being sung.
And finally, building an October holiday skeleton that is house sized, rather than large sized.
