🔗 40 questions to ask yourself every year – Steph Ango
A set of reflective prompts from the CEO of Obsidian.
The first sketchy advent is out. Hope and Isaiah 9:2,6-7.
The first sketchy advent drops tomorrow. I’m using the themes of the advent candles to guide the verses, images and reflections. Tomorrow, is hope.
Well. Guess I need to go to the optometrist. I was really struggling to read text on my laptop screen yesterday. I’ve had a feeling for a few weeks that I ought to get my eyes checked just to be sure. Now I know I need to.
Snipd, The podcast app I like (if you triple tap it adds a bookmark and makes an AI summary of the section) has a Black Friday offer on its premium version. I wish it had a desktop app but otherwise I love it.
Apparently the Australian mint have made Bluey “1 dollar (buck) coins”. This is clearly a clever ploy to drive up the value of the Australian Dollar by getting millions of foreign nationals to invest.
Listening to U2: How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (Remastered 2024).
I love this album. I know hating U2 became a thing for a while but it’s good (as are many of the other earlier albums).
Finished reading: Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon 📚
Reread partially to juice my reading numbers, partially for an easy read to get back into reading but mostly to remember some of the ideas.
Sometimes I see stuff about “liberals” and think “that’s such a straw man”.
After 5 minutes on bluesky, I can see where some of the crazy stereotypes come from.
WordPress 6.7 is here as is the new default theme Twenty Twenty-Five. Seems like it might suit Sketchy Ideas well (and allow me to move away from a WP Engine related theme)
My brother is visiting so I took him to the Jewish coffee shop and cultural centre. One of my favourite spots in krakow.
I opened the mac App store to update Final Cut Pro (this one goes to 11) and it made me realise something.
I miss minimal writing apps.
Yes, there are still some out there but most now are some sort of PKM app. There was something beautiful about the basic writing app era.
Now, please excuse me while I add a note about this to Obsidian.
(Can’t remember the source of this idea).
Governments SHOULD do inefficient things. If those things were efficient and profitable, then business would do them but we need governments to do the things that don’t have an immediate payoff.
An example, building roads and other infrastructure to connect rural communities. No business would do this as it wouldn’t be worth the ROI, governments should and many businesses benefit as well as the residents.
This doesn’t mean governments can’t/shouldn’t be more efficient and seek to limit waste, but judging a government by a corporation is dangerous.
I just updated the Sketchy Gospel about page as I try to get my sketchy advent devotional series ready in time. I have a cool theme for the series and it’s just four/five emails so it should be easily doable. We’ll see!
My daughter wanted to send a letter to Santa so I cleaned and refilled my fountain pens for the first time in years. I’m glad to have finally had a push to do this. Time to use these much more!
Finished reading: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles 📚 a very enjoyable read. The writing style was fantastic and a very character driven book. I have a writing theory about one character but it would be too spoiler-ish to share in public.
Ah instagram. Where I’m being offered “get paid for drawing: beginner illustration course”. Maybe, just maybe, if you’re an absolutely beginner you shouldn’t do it with the goal to get paid for it. Maybe, just maybe, it’s okay to have hobbies for fun and not hustles for money.
🔗 Does Tim Keller Have an Intellectual Successor? - Jordan Cooper some good reflections here from Jordan but I’d certainly debate some throw away points he makes.