Nectar Cafe
#pedalpalooza tofu and mimosas ride! šŸ¾šŸš² — with anomalily
ā˜ļøā›°ā˜ļø Summer is coming. 10+ miles of #SFRC #trailrun this morning under and through thick #fog. Miwok cut-off trail (1) with fog above, ahead, and below (2). Fox trail at the start: looking back downhill (3) and looking ahead uphill (4) appear similar thanks to fog blocking the sky and any distant hills. Temperatures lower than usual. Our #SanFrancisco summer is coming.

#Marin #trail #run #trails #runner #50ktraining #optoutside #getoutside #fitstrongfierce #MarinHeadlands #California #nofilter
#SFRC #trailrun #fog #SanFrancisco #Marin #trail #run #trails #runner #50ktraining #optoutside #getoutside #fitstrongfierce #MarinHeadlands #California #nofilter

I'm glad to hear you are ok and taking steps to get better. And hoo boy, do I feel that "not good at being loved" thing. Thank you for your vulnerability. 3

The Fields Neighborhood Park
#pedalpalooza kickoff ride! — with anomalily, Don, JK

Rachel Held Evans’ funeral was today. Her loved ones were gracious enough to arrange for it to be livestreamed so people around the world who were impacted by her could watch. I’m not sure the video is going to remain on YouTube long-term, so I recommend watching it soon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyoxUwdSnzA

Nadia Bolz-Weber’s words were powerful and I loved her benediction:

ā€œBlessed are the agnostics.
Blessed are they who doubt.
Blessed are those who have nothing to offer.
Blessed are the preschoolers who cut in line at communion.
Blessed are the poor in spirit.
You are of heaven and Jesus blesses you.

Blessed are those whom no one else notices.
The kids who sit alone at middle-school lunch tables.
The laundry guys at the hospital.
The sex workers and the night-shift street sweepers.
The closeted.
The teens who have to figure out ways to hide the new cuts on their arms.
Blessed are the meek.
You are of heaven and Jesus blesses you.

Blessed are they who have loved enough to know what loss feels like.
Blessed are the mothers of the miscarried.
Blessed are they who can’t fall apart because they have to keep it together for everyone else.
Blessed are those who ā€œstill aren’t over it yet.ā€
Blessed are those who mourn.
You are of heaven and Jesus blesses you.

I imagine Jesus standing here blessing us because that is our Lord’s nature. This Jesus cried at his friend’s tomb, turned the other cheek and forgave those who hung him on a cross. He was God’s Beatitude — God’s blessing to the weak in a world that admires only the strong. Jesus invites us into a story bigger than ourselves and our imaginations yet we all get to tell that story with the scandalous particularity of this moment and this place. We are storytelling creatures because we are fashioned in the image of a storytelling God. May we never neglect that gift. May we never lose our love for telling the story. Amen.ā€

— Nadia Bolz-Weber

She just said: thumb.

May 2019: Skating and Kickstarter Launch

Such beautiful, holy words being shared at Rachel's funeral. Sending love to her loved ones and all mourning. https://youtu.be/XyoxUwdSnzA #becauseofRHE #RememberingRHE

I saw a bookmarklet that would switch to the rel=canonical, if the page had it. I think I've seen @kevinmarks change the value in utm params.

Heh. Have you ever gassed up in New Jersey or Oregon? No self-serve gas there.

[Notes] A highly opinionated guide to learning about ActivityPub

šŸ”– Bookmarked Changing my Mind about AI, Universal Basic Income, and the Value of Data – The Art of Research https://theartofresearch.org/ai-ubi-and-data/
#AI #UBI #economics #data #labor #capitalism
@SwarmApp @Foursquare update:
2 weeks after my account was mysteriously deleted: @4sqSupport restored all but profile photo & last 3 days (May 15-17) checkins, unrecoverable per eng. team. Still unknown: how/why deletion happened, were others deleted?

The @W3C Needs You: Please Vote For Change In The @W3CAB Election

OER for Tackling a Wicked Problem

RSVPed Attending IndieWeb Summit - June 29-30, 2019 - Portland, Oregon
The ninth annual gathering for independent web creators of all kinds, graphic artists, designers, UX engineers, coders, hackers, to share ideas, create and improve their personal websites, and build upon each others creations.

I’m still working out a conflict to figure out if I’ll physically be in Portland in person, but at the very worst, I’ll definitely attend remotely. This is my favorite event of the entire year, so I definitely won’t miss it.

There are still some tickets left so RSVP now! I hope you’ll join me.

Syndicated copies to:
#indieweb #rsvp #social-stream #indieweb-summit-2019

Fun day speaking at the AWS Chicago Summit ā˜ļø

Listened to Steven Johnson on the Importance of Play and the Decisions We Make by Alan Alda from Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

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How do we come up with ideas? How do we make decisions? And how can we do both better? Steven Johnson has explored this question and written a dozen books about it. In this playful, thoughtful episode, Steven has some fascinating stories, like how Darwin made the decision to get married — or how a defecating duck helped lead to the invention of the computer. Through their own stories, Steven and Alan Alda share their thoughts about the transformative nature of ideas and what sort of environments best give rise to creativity.

I love the idea of the slow hunch discussed here. It’s part of the reason I keep a commonplace book. Johnson also discusses his own personal commonplace book, though he doesn’t give it that particular name here.

The commercial about Alda Communication Training makes me wonder if they recommend scientists and communicators have their own websites? In particular, I’m even more curious because of Johnson’s mention of his commonplace book and how he uses it in this episode. I suspect that scientists having a variety of interconnecting commonplaces (via Webmention) using basic IndieWeb or A Domain of One’s Own principles could better create slow hunches, create more links, increase creativity and diversity, and foster greater innovation. I’ll have to follow up on this idea. While some may do something slightly like this within other parts of social media, I don’t get the impression that it’s as useful a tool in those places (isn’t as searchable or permanent feeling, and is likely rarely reviewed over). Being able to own your digital commonplace as a regular tool certainly has more value as Johnson describes. Functionality like On This Day dramatically increases its value.

But there’s another point that we should make more often, I think, which is that one of the most robust findings in the social sciences and psychology over the last 20 years is that diverse groups are just collectively smarter and more original in the way that they think in, in both their way of dreaming up new ideas, but also in making complicated decisions, that they avoid all the problems of group think and homogeneity that you get when you have a group of like minded people together who are just amplifying each other’s beliefs.—Steven Johnson [00:09:59]

Think about a big decision in your life. Think about the age span of the people you’re talking to about that choice. Are they all your peers within three or four years? Are you talking somebody who’s a generation older and a generation younger?—Steven Johnson [00:13:24]

I was talking to Ramzi Hajj yesterday about having mentors (with a clear emphasis on that mentor being specifically older) and this quote is the same sentiment, just with a slightly different emphasis.

One of the things that is most predictive of a species, including most famously, humans, of their capacity for innovation and problem solving as an adult is how much they play as a newborn or as a child.—Steven Johnson [00:28:10]

Play is important for problem solving.

I think you boil this all down into the idea that if you want to know what the next big thing is, look for where people are having fun.—Alan Alda [00:31:35]

This is interesting because I notice that one of theĀ  binding (and even physically stated) principles of the IndieWeb is to have fun. Unconsciously, it’s one of the reasons I’ve always thought that what the group is doing is so important.

Ha! Alda has also been watching Shtisel recently [00:50:04].

Syndicated copies to:
#indieweb #listen #microbiology #science #social-stream #biology #charles-darwin #commonplace-books #creativity #domainofonesown #eureka #fun #innovation #play #shtisel #slow-hunch #steven-johnson

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