The open web as gift economy (Part 4)

Highlight of the week: got asked to contribute to a newsletter I read 😀 Looking forward to: getting some rest this weekend — this week was emotionally exhausting even though I didn’t do much Stuff I did: 3 hours consulting 8 hours proposal prep — almost done — just need to write the intro letter and […]

I saw someone* share a list of guiding principles for their website they described as “Core Website Tenets,” and I love the idea of codifying my approach to my website. Some are operational, some are aspirational, some are decision points if I’m on the fence. Be friendly and kind Be open (but not too open) […]

“Origin stories tell us who we think a people are–who we think we are, and why. The American origin story is written in Native genocide, transatlantic slavery, and imperial subjugation overseas. That is its originating fact, and so to write the next chapter of that story means contending with this prologue, which most Americans find […]

Corn tastes better on the honor system by Robin Wall Kimmerer — with cool paper illustrations by Suus Hessling The writings of some early colonists reveal that they thought corn a primitive crop, because it did not require machines or draft animals to cultivate and process, as did their familiar wheat. They mistook the apparent […]

Highlight of the week: heard from several people in response to my post on friction in indie web connection 😄 Looking forward to: making this blood orange olive oil cake Stuff I did: 7.75 hours writing — I committed to my accountability buddy that I would make a decision this week and I regret that […]