Other People's Projects
This is not an imposition, it’s a kindness. The point of a suspense file isn’t to nag others into living up to their commitments, it’s to form a network of support among collaborators where we all help one another make those conscious choices about what we’re not going to do, rather than having the stuff we really value slip away because we forgot about it.
This is important…I’ve often wondered about good boundaries around reminding other people of their obligations. Should I send out a reminder email about the meeting, or assume we’re all adults? Instead of seeing it though through the expectation of perfection, if I admit that we all need help (this is why I have a Getting Things Done system after all), reminding others turns into a collaborative system in which we’re all trying to do our best.
“merlin mann” apple site:music.apple.com at DuckDuckGo
Merlin doesn’t share his profile on Apple Music but you can find his public playlists with this search.
Finished reading: Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich 📚
Finished reading: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan 📚
Finished reading: Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker 📚
Finished reading: Low Anthropology by David Zahl 📚
Finished reading: Free of Charge by Miroslav Volf 📚
Finished reading: America’s Theologian by Robert W. Jenson 📚
Finished reading: A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders 📚
Finished reading: The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne 📚
Finished reading: The Humans by Matt Haig 📚
Finished reading: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 📚
Finished reading: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It’s a big book with diverse parts so I have big and diverse feelings about it. 📚
Finished reading: Saving Time by Jenny Odell 📚
Perhaps [‘the history of anarchism, almost alone among modern social movements, is one of unrelieved failure.’]; but its failures are different and less shameful than the failures of Marxism. There are many ways for a social movement to fail, and I prefer those that don’t result in the murder of tens of millions of human beings.
Maybe a good question for leaders of any social movement: how will you fail? Failure is guaranteed but not all failure is equal.
A great test for Large Language Model AI’s would be to remove some artist’s specific work and see if it could be anticipated based on the remaining work. I don’t think the nature of super large datasets would ever allow this, though.
Finished reading: Across the Everglades by Hugh Laussat Willoughby 📚
Finished reading: I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven 📚