2024 in Review

Interesting framing in We’re all (folk) programmers by Spencer Chang: In contrast to fine art created for aesthetic value, folk art emerges from cultural significance and needs. Folklore encompasses emergent practices and traditions, passed down person-to-person within communities, as opposed to “high culture” which is universal and prescriptive,...

Sara does a better job than me laying out what it means that blogs are part of oral culture — how that influences what we get from the blogs we read and what we’re sharing when we write on our blogs: Because blogging is the oral culture and therefore we are looking at each other […]

This is part three of a series on tackling wants, managing my media diet, and finding enough. Read the introduction on “the mindset of more.” The Internet feels like an old relative’s hoarder house, the hallways so packed with clutter you can barely squeeze through. At one point they remembered where some of the important […]

Win of the week: posted the intro and first two posts of the series I’ve been working on! third post scheduled for Saturday! Looking forward to: just got several books from the library I’ve been looking forward to, hopefully they’re good! Stuff I did: 0.5 hours consulting — took most of the week off work again, […]

What I listened to in 2024 I listened to about 11890 songs — on average, 32 songs a day. 2831 unique tracks (down 30% from 2023) 688 artists (down 46% from 2023) 954 albums (down 52% from 2023) Monthly listening roundups My favorite music of 2024 My top played song was Pa Pa Power by […]