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Rain, Tables, and a Job Offer – Covid Part 4
Week seven brought a job offer and a wet walk through the nature reserve. Week ten brought the particular exhaustion of the middle stretch… neither crisis nor normal, just the…
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Small Acts of Ridiculous – Covid Part 3
Getting drunk on a video call and shaving my head. Watching a seven-year-old discover that Infinity War does not have a happy ending. Lockdown weeks that were smaller and stranger…
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The Blackest Good Friday – Covid Part 2
Week three of lockdown. Good Friday, April 2020. Written in real time, which is the only reason I’d share it. Some things are only honest when they’re written in the…
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An Observer No Longer – Covid Part 1
March 2020. For the first time in my life, I wasn’t watching from a distance. Isaac came home from school on a Thursday and didn’t go back for months.
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Emily
Written the day after we lost Emily. She beat cancer twice, and then an infection her new immune system couldn’t fight. She was intimidatingly talented, and she deserved much more…
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The Friendliness of Crowds
Two things I noticed on crowded platforms: how quickly strangers will help when you ask directly, and how easily a whole crowd will follow the wrong person down the wrong…
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AlgoArt — Yasmin: Weaving Threads of Code
Yasmin is a generative art experiment in making threads weave over and under each other. The technical challenge turned out to be the interesting bit: how do you get code…
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AlgoArt — Zara: On Process Over Outcome
Zara didn’t look the way I hoped it would. That turned out to be the point. A reflection on what you learn from algorithmic art that doesn’t come out impressive.
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Letter to Isaac: Have Faith
A letter to my son about the thing that took me the longest to find. Faith isn’t an escape from reason. It’s where I ended up after taking reason seriously…
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Letter to Isaac: Be Nice… Love
Of all the things I want Isaac to carry with him, this is the simplest and the hardest: be kind. Not as performance, not as weakness. As the actual shape…