2017 wk.19: Web excursions

- Bullet Journal [1]

The Bullet Journal is a customizable and forgiving organization system. It can be your to-do list, sketchbook, notebook, and diary, but most likely, it will be all of the above. It will teach you to do more with less.

- Alistair Johnston [2]

- Derek Sivers [3]

- [now page](http://nownownow.com/about)

> Most websites have a link that says “about”. It goes to a page

> that tells you something about the background of this person or

> business. For short, people just call it an “about page”.

> So a website with a link that says “now” goes to a page that

> tells you what this person is focused on at this point in their

> life. For short, we call it a “now page”.

- Mother Jones: Neal Stephenson Interview [4]

MJ: Is the failure to get big things done something science fiction can address?

NS: I guess I'd turn it around and say that if you're a science-fiction writer, that's the only tool you’ve got. It may actually be useful—or useless. I think you can make an argument that there is a practical value in a more optimist kind of science fiction, and that's sort of the basis for the [Hieroglyph anthology][] we published last year. The argument there is that a lot of times people who want to build a new thing can sort of rally around visionary science fiction and say, "This expresses the vision of what we're trying to build."

[Hieroglyph anthology]: http://hieroglyph.asu.edu/book/hieroglyph/

- Sandra Álvaro: Living with Smart Algorithms [5]

- Dadhacker: Documentation is for the weak [6]

- Dadhacker: Keeping sharp [7]

- Notational Velocity meets org-mode: org-velocity [8]

- Haunt: A static site generator written in Guile Scheme [9]

- Tim Bray: Still Blogging in 2017 [10]

Not alone and not unread, but the ground underfoot ain’t steady. An instance of Homo economicus wouldn’t be doing this — no payday looming. So I guess I’m not one of those. But hey, whenever I can steal an hour I can send the world whatever words and pictures occupy my mind and laptop. Which, all these years later, still feels like immense privilege.

- Miniflux: a minimalist self-hosted RSS reader [11]

References:

[1] Bullet Journal

[2] Alistair Johnston

[3] Derek Sivers

[4] Mother Jones: Neal Stephenson Interview

[5] Sandra Álvaro: Living with Smart Algorithms

[6] Dadhacker: Documentation is for the weak

[7] Dadhacker: Keeping sharp

[8] Notational Velocity meets org-mode: org-velocity

[9] Haunt: A static site generator written in Guile Scheme

[10] Tim Bray: Still Blogging in 2017