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Things, week 2, 2026 This week I ... Enjoyed clicking around this retro-inspired web desktop. Nodded along to New year, new notebook. Finished reading Ensorcelled. Went straight...

Some distractions I enjoyed this week:

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Things, week 1, 2026 This week I ... Am digging the idea of the rollback. Am all in on weird phones. Am hoping for a year of thick. Printing a single page 2026 calendar to keep...

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Week 49: playlists, samples, learnings, and more: https://thingstoclick.com/week-49-playlists-samples-learnings-and-more

phish pepsi: https://thingstoclick.com/phish-pepsi

A tiny two seater car. It’s red with a white stripe. The car has no doors, but the roof lifts up to allow for entry.

XP 512E: https://thingstoclick.com/xp-512e

“Intertapes is an updating collection of found cassette tapes from different locations. The audio fragments include: voice memos, field recordings, mixtapes, bootlegs and more.”

A Charlie Brown Christmas: Live at The Jazz Estate

A Charlie Brown Christmas: Live at The Jazz Estate. (youtube.com, 58:20)

What podcasts do to our brains I quit podcasts for a month and discovered a new reality.

What podcasts do to our brains. “Silence activates the brain’s “default mode” — and that’s good. Quiet time makes space for self-reflection, planning, and daydreaming.” (vox.com)

Recipe for a good week /via Chris Glass. An ingredient that works for me: take a bit of time to just stare out the window, drinking some coffee, checking in with the locals (birds, bunnies, and squirrels). (tracydurnell.com)

Radiant Computer. “We believe the current trajectory of personal computing is leading us to a less free world, and that only a new computing movement rooted in human dignity and creativity can change its course.” (radiant.computer)

The Resonant Computing Manifesto Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.

The Resonant Computing Manifesto. “… rethinking the system architectures, design patterns, and business models that have undergirded the tech industry for decades.” (resonantcomputing.org)

Best Songs of 2025. “Songs I love more than demon-hunters, damselflies and the numbers six or seven.” (saidthegramophone.com)

Untitled www.patrickjoust.com ... Fujica GW690 Kodak Portra 160

Somewhere in Utah (flickr.com)

What is My Cookie Cutter

↑ Red nose studio’s puppets are just great!

→ A 60 plus song playlist for just about any service you can think of. I’m super appreciative of this type of work for my musical discovery needs. Related, listening to music reduces yo... https://thingstoclick.com/2025/12/03/red-nose-studios-puppets-are/

The Argument for Letting AI Burn It All Down When the AI bubble bursts, the nerds will do their best work.

The Argument for Letting AI Burn It All Down

"But maybe when the crash comes it’ll look like the dotcom crash: A Pets.com or two gets razed to the ground, but the new infrastructure remains, and we humans spend years—decades—weavi... https://thingstoclick.com/2025/11/26/the-argument-for-letting-ai/

We used to look forward to things Have we ruined anticipation?

We used to look forward to things

"I hope we will either begin to detach ourselves from instant tech or find ways to use tech more intentionally to deliver a more immersive experience. To give us back time… porous time. Time to spend with a piece of art. Time to listen deeply. Time to world build."

The story behind this photo is really great.

Last Light On The Creek by Steven Weinberg. https://www.stevenweinbergstudio.com/shop/lastlightprint

Personal Business | Are.na Editorial “Whatever else anything is, it ought to begin by being personal.”

Personal Business

"The type of business that both sustains and is sustained by a community."

A fire ring with a hop cut out. The setting sun shines through the cut out to show the hop on the firewood.

Fire season.

I'm currently:

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Currently:

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a painting of heavy clouds over a mountain

Brett Allen Johnson

grug.design “grug make design. grug not know much. but grug know pain. grug try to avoid pain. grug learn over many fire-cycles.”

"What I love about pencils is the balance they strike: you can geek out on materials, production, or mark-making, and yet some of the best pencils being made will only run you a dollar or two. So you don’t have to sweat lending one out or losing one."

BTW № 3: Analog Edition

a painting of a car driving down a dark road at night

By William Mackinnon.

"Dystopia is easy. You take what people are afraid of and tell them it’s right outside their door. The cure is to open the door and see the truth for yourself. What’s on the other side of the door is your neighbors, and some of them brought donuts."

How to stay hopeful: buttondown.com/monteiro/…

"There’s nothing at all wrong with honing in, developing your craft, making variations of things you’re good at, and getting better each time. Nothing small about it. Nothing unfulfilling about it."

Knives and battleships: world.hey.com/jason/kni…

"There seems to be a certain essence in us that we must allow to guide us through life. If we defy this compass, we can end up in places we don’t belong. But if we trust it, follow it, we might do something as grand as fulfilling our purpose."

vague, inchoate feeling: rebeccatoh.co/vague-inc…