I know "I hope this message finds you well" is a normal way to start an email, but what about if I am in fact not well? Am I supposed to say thanks but this message didn't find me well??
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"text": "I know \"I hope this message finds you well\" is a normal way to start an email, but what about if I am in fact not well? Am I supposed to say thanks but this message didn't find me well??"
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"text": "Ben Werdmuller \nrecently published an inspiring and thought-provoking blog post:\n \u201cSubscribing to the blogs of people I follow on Mastodon\u201d. \n\nBeyond the insights and excellent developer how-to in his post, I believe it points to something larger: a fundamental thoughtfulness difference between writing rapid short-form posts (whether tweets or toots) and medium or longer form writing (on blogs or journals), and the impact of that difference on readers: that the act of reading more thoughtful writing nudges & reinforces a reader into a more thoughtful state of mind.\n\n\nIf you have not read \n Derek Powazek\u2019s watershed blog post \n\u201cThe Argument Machine\u201d, \nI highly recommend you do so. In the nearly ten years since his post, Derek\u2019s hypothesis of Twitter\u2019s user interface design being the ultimate machine to create & amplify disputes has been repeatedly demonstrated.\n\n\nDerek\u2019s post predated Mastodon\u2019s release by nearly three years. Ironically, by replicating much of Twitter\u2019s user experience, Mastodon has in many ways also replicated its Argument Machine effects, except distributed across more servers.\n\n\nI\u2019ve witnessed numerous otherwise rational, well-intentioned individuals write reactive posts on Mastodon, exactly what the Twitter-like interface encourages. Quick emotional responses rather than slower, more thoughtful posts and replies. \n\n\nI\u2019ve seen the artificial urgency of tweets & toots bleed over into emotional essays on public mailing lists. New participants join a list and immediately make entitled demands. Fearful bordering on paranoid assumptions are used to state assertions of \u201cfacts\u201d without citations. Arguments are made that\n appeal to emotion \n (argumentum ad passiones) \nrather than reasoning from principles and shared values.\n\n\nImplicit in Ben\u2019s post, \u201cSubscribing to the blogs of people\u201d \n(emphasis mine), is a preference for reading longer form writing, published on a site a human owns & identifies with (a la \n #indieweb), \nneither silo nor \n someone \n else\u2019s garage.\n\n\nThe combination of taking more time (as longer form writing encourages) and publishing on a domain associated with your name, your identity, enables & incentivizes more thoughtful writing. More thoughtful writing elevates the reader to a more thoughtful state of mind.\n \n\nThere is also a self-care aspect to this kind of deliberate shift. Ben wrote that he found himself \u201ccraving more nuance and depth\u201d among \u201cquick, in-the-now status updates\u201d. I believe this points to a scarcity of thoughtfulness in such short form writings. Spending more time reading thoughtful posts not only alleviates such scarcity, it can also displace the artificial sense of urgency to respond when scrolling through soundbyte status updates. \n\n\nWhen I returned from \n #W3CTPAC, \n I made a list of all the thoughts, meetings, sessions that I wanted to write-up and publish as blog posts to capture my experiences, perspectives, and insights beyond any official minutes.\n\n\nYet due to distractions such as catching up on short form posts, it took me over a week to write-up even a \n summary of my \n TPAC week, nevermind the queue of per-topic notes I wanted to write-up. To even publish that I had to stop and cut-off reading short form posts, as well as ignoring (mostly postponing) numerous notifications.\n\n\nThere\u2019s a larger connection here between \n thoughtful \n reading, \nand finding, restoring, and rebuilding the ability to focus, a key to thoughtful \n writing. \nIt requires not only reducing time spent on short form reading (and writing), but also reducing \n notifications, \nespecially push notifications. That insight led me to wade into and garden the respective IndieWeb wiki pages for\n notifications, \n push notifications, \n and document a new page for \n notification fatigue. \n That broader topic of what do to about notifications is worth its own blog post (or a few), and a good place to end this post.\n\n\nThanks again Ben for your blog post. May we spend more time reading & writing such thoughtful posts.",
"html": "<p>\n<a class=\"h-card\" href=\"https://werd.io/\">Ben Werdmuller</a> \nrecently published an inspiring and thought-provoking blog post:\n \u201c<a href=\"https://werd.io/2023/subscribing-to-the-blogs-of-people-i-follow-on-mastodon\">Subscribing to the blogs of people I follow on Mastodon</a>\u201d. \n\nBeyond the insights and excellent developer how-to in his post, I believe it points to something larger: a fundamental thoughtfulness difference between writing rapid short-form posts (whether tweets or toots) and medium or longer form writing (on blogs or journals), and the impact of that difference on readers: that the act of reading more thoughtful writing nudges & reinforces a reader into a more thoughtful state of mind.\n</p>\n<p>\nIf you have not read \n <a class=\"h-card\" href=\"https://powazek.com/\">Derek Powazek</a>\u2019s watershed blog post \n\u201c<a href=\"https://powazek.com/posts/3368\">The Argument Machine</a>\u201d, \nI highly recommend you do so. In the nearly ten years since his post, Derek\u2019s hypothesis of Twitter\u2019s user interface design being the ultimate machine to create & amplify disputes has been repeatedly demonstrated.\n</p>\n<p>\nDerek\u2019s post predated Mastodon\u2019s release by nearly three years. Ironically, by replicating much of Twitter\u2019s user experience, Mastodon has in many ways also replicated its Argument Machine effects, except distributed across more servers.\n</p>\n<p>\nI\u2019ve witnessed numerous otherwise rational, well-intentioned individuals write reactive posts on Mastodon, exactly what the Twitter-like interface encourages. Quick emotional responses rather than slower, more thoughtful posts and replies. \n</p>\n<p>\nI\u2019ve seen the artificial urgency of tweets & toots bleed over into emotional essays on public mailing lists. New participants join a list and immediately make entitled demands. Fearful bordering on paranoid assumptions are used to state assertions of \u201cfacts\u201d without citations. Arguments are made that\n <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_emotion\">appeal to emotion</a> \n (<i>argumentum ad passiones</i>) \nrather than reasoning from principles and shared values.\n</p>\n<p>\nImplicit in Ben\u2019s post, \u201cSubscribing to the <em>blogs</em> of <em>people</em>\u201d \n(<em>emphasis</em> mine), is a preference for reading longer form writing, published on a site a human owns & identifies with (a la \n <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span class=\"p-category\">indieweb</span></a>), \nneither silo nor \n <a href=\"https://tantek.com/2023/022/t2/own-your-notes-domain-migration\">someone \n else\u2019s garage</a>.\n</p>\n<p>\nThe combination of taking more time (as longer form writing encourages) and publishing on a domain associated with your name, your identity, enables & incentivizes more thoughtful writing. More thoughtful writing elevates the reader to a more thoughtful state of mind.\n</p> \n<p>\nThere is also a self-care aspect to this kind of deliberate shift. Ben wrote that he found himself \u201ccraving more nuance and depth\u201d among \u201cquick, in-the-now status updates\u201d. I believe this points to a scarcity of thoughtfulness in such short form writings. Spending more time reading thoughtful posts not only alleviates such scarcity, it can also displace the artificial sense of urgency to respond when scrolling through soundbyte status updates. \n</p>\n<p>\nWhen I returned from \n <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/w3cTPAC\">#<span class=\"p-category\">W3CTPAC</span></a>, \n I made a list of all the thoughts, meetings, sessions that I wanted to write-up and publish as blog posts to capture my experiences, perspectives, and insights beyond any official minutes.\n</p>\n<p>\nYet due to distractions such as catching up on short form posts, it took me over a week to write-up even a \n <a href=\"https://tantek.com/2023/262/b1/w3c-technical-plenary-tpac\">summary of my \n <span class=\"p-category\">TPAC</span> week</a>, nevermind the queue of per-topic notes I wanted to write-up. To even publish that I had to stop and cut-off reading short form posts, as well as ignoring (mostly postponing) numerous notifications.\n</p>\n<p>\nThere\u2019s a larger connection here between \n <span class=\"p-category\">thoughtful</span> \n <span class=\"p-category\">reading</span>, \nand finding, restoring, and rebuilding the ability to focus, a key to thoughtful \n <span class=\"p-category\">writing</span>. \nIt requires not only reducing time spent on short form reading (and writing), but also reducing \n <span class=\"p-category\">notifications</span>, \nespecially push notifications. That insight led me to wade into and garden the respective IndieWeb wiki pages for\n <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/notification\">notifications</a>, \n <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/push_notification\">push notifications</a>, \n and document a new page for \n <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/notification_fatigue\">notification fatigue</a>. \n That broader topic of what do to about notifications is worth its own blog post (or a few), and a good place to end this post.\n</p>\n<p>\nThanks again Ben for your blog post. May we spend more time reading & writing such thoughtful posts.\n</p>"
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"published": "2023-10-03T16:25:24-07:00",
"url": "https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/1067-Upcoming-choir-shows",
"name": "Upcoming choir shows!",
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"text": "Here are the upcoming shows for the choir I participate in:\nFall Talent Show: Saturday, October 21 at 6:00 pm at Rainier Beach Presbyterian (tickets)\nOne More Light: a Trans Day of Remembrance Concert\n\nPerformance 1: Saturday, November 18 at 3:00 pm at Rainier Beach Presbyterian (tickets)\nPerformance 2: Monday, November 20 at 7:30 pm at Seattle University Pigott Auditorium (tickets)\n\nI hope to see some of you some of there!",
"html": "<p>Here are the upcoming shows for <a href=\"https://stanceseattle.org/\">the choir I participate in</a>:</p>\n<ul><li>Fall Talent Show: Saturday, October 21 at 6:00 pm at Rainier Beach Presbyterian (<a href=\"https://givebutter.com/STANCEfall2023\">tickets</a>)</li>\n<li>One More Light: a Trans Day of Remembrance Concert\n\n<ul><li>Performance 1: Saturday, November 18 at 3:00 pm at Rainier Beach Presbyterian (<a href=\"https://www.purplepass.com/#264002\">tickets</a>)</li>\n<li>Performance 2: Monday, November 20 at 7:30 pm at Seattle University Pigott Auditorium (<a href=\"https://www.purplepass.com/#264003\">tickets</a>)</li>\n</ul></li>\n</ul><p>I hope to see some of you some of there!</p>"
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