Temporal Dwelling

Personal and philosophical explorations of how bodies, places, and seasons shape one's experience of time, home, and the rhythms of a life in motion.

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2024-08-15 Intellectual Menopause
2024-07-14 Imagination vs. Creativity
2024-06-14 Covid and Noun-Memory Effects
2024-06-05 Bangalore Meetup Report
2024-05-24 Going Sessile
2024-05-14 Arbitrariness Costs
2024-05-12 Decision Brownouts
2024-05-12 News from the Universe
2024-04-16 The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet
2024-04-16 Stack Map of the World
2024-04-12 Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities by Bettany Hughes
2024-03-08 My Post-AI Writing
2024-03-07 Matter and Life
2024-02-06 A Tale of Two Kits
2024-02-01 The Bartleby Trough
2024-01-31 Lego Soup
2024-01-18 Adventures in Mediocre Sweetmaking
2024-01-10 Knowledge Management
2023-12-28 2023 Ribbonfarm Extended Universe Roundup
2023-12-21 Charnel Vision
2023-11-09 Touching Transistors
2023-10-23 Vastness
2023-07-13 Worldly, Yet Carefree
2023-07-06 The Resourceful Life
2023-06-14 Hello Again, Seattle
2023-04-20 Storytelling — The Penumbra of Mortality
2023-03-30 Tessellations for the End of History
2023-03-16 Report Cards
2023-03-01 Salt-Seeking
2022-12-29 2022 Ribbonfarm Extended Universe Roundup
2022-11-17 The Art of Gig Books
2022-11-03 Storytelling -- End-Times Tales
2022-09-16 ε/δ Thinking
2022-09-08 September 2022 Blog Update
2022-08-04 A Dreaming World
2022-07-28 Tubeworld
2022-07-13 Storytelling -- Tellability
2022-07-07 Virtue Degeneracy
2022-06-23 What is a Life?
2022-06-02 Storytelling -- Mediocre Metamodernism
2022-05-26 Infirmity
2022-05-18 Crisis Mindsets
2022-04-28 Elderblog Sutra: 13
2022-04-21 The Ribbonfarm Lab
2022-02-10 Tools
2022-01-20 Animation Sublimation
2022-01-12 Storytelling -- Narrative Wet Bulb Temperature
2021-12-06 Thinking in OODA Loops
2021-11-03 Ghost Protocols
2021-10-27 MJD 59,514
2021-10-05 Storytelling -- Cringe and the Banality of Shadows
2021-09-30 MJD 59,487
2021-09-20 Mediocratopia: 11
2021-09-02 MJD 59,459
2021-08-10 MJD 59,436
2021-07-29 Mediocratopia: 10
2021-07-01 MJD 59,396
2021-04-22 MJD 59,326
2021-04-19 MJD 59,323
2021-04-08 Here's why we don't understand heavier-than-air flight
2021-03-18 Kinds of Potential
2021-03-11 Elderblog Sutra: 12
2021-02-11 MJD 59,256
2021-01-21 Nostalgia for Network Effects
2021-01-06 Boilerplate Advice
2020-12-29 Notes: Pale Rider by Laura Spinney
2020-12-09 Stoned Strategy
2020-11-16 MJD 59,169
2020-11-10 MJD 59,163
2020-10-29 MJD 59,151
2020-10-21 MJD 59,143
2020-10-14 Clockmaking: 2
2020-10-06 MJD 59,128
2020-10-04 Mansionism 2: Bungalows
2020-09-16 Notes: The Starship and the Canoe by Kenneth Brower
2020-09-02 Hyperreality Prevails
2020-08-26 The Stack: A Love/Hate Story
2020-08-13 Clockmaking: 1
2020-07-30 Elderblog Sutra: 11
2020-07-07 The Venus Effect
2020-07-06 Notes: A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman
2020-06-09 A Spectre Is Haunting The West
2020-06-04 MJD 59,004
2020-05-26 Through a Glass Lightly
2020-05-21 New E-Book, and a Portfolio Update
2020-05-12 Whistler's Giantess
2020-05-07 Leaking into the Future
2020-04-28 Alamut, Bosch, Gaddis: Introduction to Epochal Art
2020-04-14 Liminality?...Well, there's a free sample!
2020-02-10 MJD 58,889
2020-01-24 How To See Voids
2020-01-23 Being Your Selves: Identity R&D on alt Twitter
2020-01-18 MJD 58,866
2020-01-06 MJD 58,854
2020-01-03 MJD 58,851
2019-12-31 Complete 2019 Roundup
2019-12-25 Predictable Identities: 23 - The Self
2019-12-13 Disassembling the Empathy Machine
2019-12-11 Predictable Identities: 22 - The Entropic Brain
2019-11-25 Elderblog Sutra: 10
2019-11-20 Predictable Identities: 21 - Enlightenment
2019-11-19 The Other Simulation Hypothesis
2019-11-04 Domestic Cozy: 9
2019-10-29 The City as Weakly-Escaped Reality
2019-10-15 Observability and Time
2019-10-11 PermaPunk - Visionary Non/Fictions
2019-10-08 Becoming the Internet
2019-09-25 Elderblog Sutra: 9
2019-09-16 Mediocratopia: 8
2019-09-10 Elderblog Sutra: 8
2019-09-04 Worlding Raga 7: Worlds of Worlds
2019-08-16 Multitemporality: 1
2019-08-15 Meaning as Ambiguity
2019-08-01 Mediocratopia: 7
2019-07-16 Mediocratopia: 6
2019-07-11 Pleasure as an Organizing Principle
2019-07-09 Elderblog Sutra: 7
2019-07-04 Semi-Annual 2019 Roundup
2019-06-27 Regenerations
2019-06-20 Reflections on Refactor Camp 2019
2019-06-18 Worlding Raga 6: World To Live
2019-05-30 The Age of Diffraction
2019-05-08 Predictable Identities: 9 - How to Change
2019-04-25 Worlding Raga: 5 -- World How?
2019-04-23 Elderblog Sutra: 6
2019-04-03 Predictable Identities: 6 - Creeps
2019-04-01 Weirding Diary: 6
2019-03-28 What If We Already Know How to Live?
2019-03-18 Elderblog Sutra: 5
2019-03-12 Weirding Diary: 5
2019-02-21 Worlding Raga: 1
2019-02-19 Elderblog Sutra: 4
2019-02-12 Mediocratopia: 2
2019-02-11 Elderblog Sutra: 3
2019-02-08 Mediocratopia: 1
2019-02-05 Elderblog Sutra: 2
2019-02-04 Weirding Diary: 3
2019-01-31 Elderblog Sutra: 1
2019-01-30 Weirding Diary: 2
2019-01-24 Weirding Diary: 1
2019-01-17 Stack Luck
2019-01-10 Remembering Pierre Kabamba
2018-12-20 Why We Slouch
2018-12-07 “Something Runs Through The Whole Thread”
2018-11-21 The Age of Early Divinity
2018-11-08 May You Live in Epic Times
2018-10-11 Pack Experience
2018-10-05 Light of the American Whale
2018-09-20 Dodo Thoughts
2018-09-07 Social Media Consciousness
2018-08-23 Flying Blind into the Anthropocene
2018-07-24 Armpit Futures
2018-07-13 Hedonic Audit
2018-06-21 Near-Deathness
2018-05-29 Reality Maintenance
2018-05-10 Notes on Doing Things
2018-04-19 Symmetry and Identity
2018-04-06 Deep Laziness
2018-03-29 The Key to Act Two
2018-03-01 Luxuriating in Privacy
2018-02-15 Make Your Own Rules
2018-01-11 Cringe and the Design of Sacred Experiences
2017-12-14 A Glitch in the Theocratic Matrix
2017-12-07 Feeling the Future
2017-10-05 Rectangle Vision
2017-09-28 The Internet of Electron Microscopes
2017-08-10 Questions Are Not Just For Asking
2017-08-03 Body Pleasure
2017-07-26 On Being Nosey
2017-07-25 I Can’t Be Your Hero, I’m Too Busy Being Super
2017-07-13 Crash Early, Crash Often
2017-07-11 Memory Transplants and Climate Risks
2017-06-27 Been There, Done That
2017-06-15 How I Hired Your Mother
2017-06-13 Ten Years of Refactoring
2017-06-06 Thingness and Thereness
2017-04-13 Idiots Scaring Themselves in the Dark
2017-04-11 Zorba, Spock, or Voldemort?
2017-03-30 Nobody Expects The Mongolian Earthship
2017-03-23 Bourbon Crossing
2017-03-07 Sulking Through a Subprime Presidency
2017-03-02 The Limits of Epistemic Hygiene
2017-02-28 A Brief History of Existential Terror
2017-02-14 Caring and Reality
2017-02-02 After Temporality
2017-01-10 Rolling Your Own Culture and (Not) Finding Community
2017-01-05 Tendrils of Mess in our Brains
2016-12-30 Complete 2016 Roundup
2016-12-15 Robert Martinson and the Tragedy of the American Prison
2016-12-01 A Pseudoethnography of Egregores
2016-11-17 Paradox and the Origins of Civilisation
2016-11-10 King Ruinous and the City of Darkness
2016-09-22 Speak Weirdness to Truth
2016-08-25 The Liminal Explorer of the Adjacent Possible
2016-06-29 The Daredevil Camera
2016-06-23 The Principia Misanthropica
2016-05-19 Examining the Accidental Life
2016-05-12 Artem vs. Predator
2016-04-28 Immortality Begins at Forty
2016-04-21 A Framework of Experimental Habit Formation
2016-03-24 The Holy Grail of Self-Improvement
2016-03-22 Berliners #11: Snowflaking Out
2016-02-25 The Epic Struggle between Good and Neutral
2016-02-09 Berliners #9: The Scent of a Yak
2016-01-28 Productivity for Precious Snowflakes
2016-01-19 Berliners #7: Organic, Free-Range Chicken and Egg
2016-01-14 Berliners #6: Purgatorinomics
2016-01-07 On Some Possibilities for Life as a Joke
2015-12-17 We Are All Architects Now
2015-12-08 Berliners #5: Grandparents
2015-11-23 Artisanal Hand-Crafted Electrons
2015-11-17 Berliners #4: Cactus and Weasel
2015-11-12 The Awe Delusion
2015-10-13 The Berliners #1
2015-10-01 Meaning and Pointing
2015-09-24 Samuel Beckett's Guide to Particles and Antiparticles
2015-09-22 Significance Appreciation
2015-09-17 How to be a Precious Snowflake
2015-08-25 Learning is the Opposite of Healing
2015-08-11 Low Humanity Orbit
2015-07-30 The Chinese Compressibility Parable
2015-07-01 A Neptune Kid, Waiting to Always-Already Know Pluto
2015-06-12 The Things You Carry
2015-06-04 Puzzle Theory
2015-05-20 Pretending to Care, Pretending to Agree
2015-04-08 The Essence of Peopling
2015-04-02 The Art of Gig III
2015-03-26 The Art of Gig II
2015-03-19 The Art of Gig
2015-03-12 The Art of Agile Leadership
2015-02-24 Colin Dickey: Tempo Shifts
2015-02-18 A Dent in the Universe
2015-01-28 The Heroine's Journey
2015-01-16 On the Design of Escaped Realities
2015-01-08 Ritual and the Consciousness Monoculture
2014-12-18 Learning from Crashes
2014-12-11 Striving, Surviving, Suffering and Slacking
2014-11-20 Learning to Fly by Missing the Ground
2014-11-05 Don't Surround Yourself With Smarter People
2014-10-29 Crash-Only Thinking
2014-10-12 I Will Not Rest Until...
2014-09-24 The Rhythms of Information: Flow-Pacing and Spacetime
2014-09-02 When is a Year not a Year?
2014-08-27 Why Sleeping-In Makes You More Tired
2014-08-06 Seoul Station
2014-08-05 The Four Seasons of Lifehacking
2014-07-17 How Different Cultures Understand Time
2014-07-16 Close Encounters of the Missing Kind
2014-07-09 A Koan is not a Riddle
2014-06-05 The Rumsfeld Behavioral Landscape
2014-05-10 Two Examples of Narrative Time
2014-05-08 Science! and Other Off-the-Wall Études
2014-04-16 A Life with a View
2014-03-10 Reboot Travel vs. Pause Travel
2014-03-06 Immortality in the Ocean of Infinite Memories
2014-02-27 Demons by Candelight
2014-01-13 When Finishing is Easier than Starting
2014-01-10 Consent of the Surveilled
2014-01-01 Free, as in Agent
2013-12-30 New Year's Resolutions as Self-Directed Camp
2013-12-17 Morality for Exploded Minds
2013-12-16 Maintenance Thinking
2013-12-09 The Three Clocks of Trial and Error
2013-10-31 On Staying Grounded
2013-10-24 On Lifestyle Rigidity
2013-09-18 Freedom in Smooth Space
2013-09-04 Projected Presence
2013-08-26 On Thinking Caps
2013-08-20 I and Thou and Life in Aspergerstan
2013-08-11 Personality Ambidexterity: Or How to Turn Yourself Inside-Out
2013-08-08 On Freedomspotting
2013-07-01 Consciousness: An Outside View
2013-07-01 Coincidences and Correlations
2013-06-26 Players versus Spectators
2013-06-17 Extrovert-Introvert Fog
2013-06-06 On the Unraveling of Scripts
2013-05-30 Aphorisms: Collection 1
2013-05-16 The Gervais Principle VI: Children of an Absent God
2013-05-14 Deliberate Practice versus Immersion
2013-04-29 Sensitive Dependence on Paperwork Conditions
2013-04-17 So I Shall be Written, So I Shall be Performed
2013-04-10 A Beginner's Guide to Immortality
2013-04-01 Why Habit Formation is Hard
2013-03-26 Allowing Personality to Flow
2013-03-18 How Many Steps Do You Really Look Ahead?
2013-03-13 The Dead-Curious Cat and the Joyless Immortal
2013-03-05 Honesty and the Human Body
2013-02-28 Binoculars versus Cameras
2013-02-28 The National Day of Unplugging
2013-02-15 Adventures in Amateur Talking-Headery
2013-01-17 Data is Eating Clocks
2013-01-16 Eternal Hypochondria of the Expanding Mind
2012-12-14 The Ultimate Lifestyle Planning Guide and Map
2012-11-14 Jason Ho on Cultivating a Jiu-Jitsu Mindset
2012-11-05 At Home, in a Car
2012-10-31 Deskless in Seattle, Future of Data Survey
2012-10-29 The Examined Life
2012-10-04 The Abundances of Ages
2012-10-02 Annealing the Tactical Pattern Stack
2012-09-27 Cloud Mouse, Metro Mouse
2012-09-20 Money as Pain Relief
2012-09-11 Romanticism and Classicism (Assembly Required)
2012-08-30 The Varieties of Scientific Experience
2012-08-09 The Interesting Times Triangle
2012-07-09 Stress Failures versus Decay Failures
2012-07-03 Five Years of Blogging
2012-06-18 Analysis-Paralysis and The Sensemaking Trap
2012-06-13 Getting Ahead, Getting Along, Getting Away
2012-06-04 Time Lensing
2012-05-21 The Daily Ugly
2012-05-17 Discussion Note: Sartre's Nausea vs. Future Nausea
2012-05-09 Welcome to the Future Nauseous
2012-05-07 Creative Desks versus Administration Desks
2012-04-25 Go Deep, Young Man: 2012 Call for Sponsorships
2012-04-11 How Do You Run Away from Home?
2012-03-14 Reviewing Refactor Camp 2012
2012-03-01 The Second Most Important Archetype in your Life
2012-02-29 Just Add Water
2012-02-20 Live Life, Not Projects
2012-02-16 Glimpses of a Cryptic God
2012-02-09 Refactor Camp 2012: Generativity and Captivity
2011-12-21 Complete 2011 Roundup
2011-12-08 Acting Dead, Trading Up and Leaving the Middle Class
2011-11-29 The Pomodoro Technique
2011-11-21 The Towers of Priority
2011-11-07 Ancora Imparo: Warsaw, Poland.
2011-11-03 Ribbonfarm Field Trip #3: Computer History Museum, 11/19/2011
2011-10-04 The Stream Map of the World
2011-09-22 Forgivable Sloppiness: The Art of Epoch-Driven Time Management
2011-09-12 The Gervais Principle in New York, and Friday 9/16 NYC Meetup
2011-08-26 The Scientific Sensibility
2011-08-19 The Calculus of Grit
2011-08-17 Daemons and the Mindful Learning Curve
2011-08-12 The August Reading List Freeze
2011-07-31 On Being an Illegible Person
2011-07-21 Houseboats, Containers, Guns and Garbage: the 2011 Ribbonfarm Field Trip
2011-07-14 Diamonds versus Gold
2011-07-07 The End of the Parade
2011-06-30 California Visit: July 11 - Aug 4, including a 4th Anniversary Field Trip
2011-06-29 Never Stop Marketing, Silver Spring, MD
2011-06-16 The Las Vegas Rules II: Stuff Science
2011-06-06 Bardic Mystique: Maastricht, Netherlands
2011-06-02 The Las Vegas Rules I: The Slightly Malevolent Universe
2011-05-24 Dulce Domum
2011-05-24 Dulce Domum
2011-05-21 Timepass and Boredom
2011-05-20 My Competition?
2011-05-20 \"Ready, Fire, Aim,\" with Wild Bill
2011-05-18 How Clock Time Replaced Narrative Time
2011-05-18 Smalltalk with Gary and Harpreet
2011-05-17 On Rest Stops 2.0
2011-05-17 The Best Chips in the World
2011-05-17 Mississippi Flooding
2011-05-16 Startup Deathwatch in Memphis
2011-05-16 The Memphis Drum Shop
2011-05-16 Week 3: Memphis, St. Louis, Omaha, Carhenge, Deadwood, Yellowstone
2011-05-16 Week 3: Memphis, St. Louis, Omaha, Carhenge, Deadwood, Yellowstone
2011-05-15 On Ritual Time
2011-05-14 The Author's Journey and the Blogger's Journey
2011-05-12 Freytag Staircases in Nashville
2011-05-11 The Car/Truck Ratio
2011-05-09 Week 2: Ann Arbor, Nashville, Atlanta, New Orleans
2011-05-09 Week 2: Ann Arbor, Nashville, Atlanta, New Orleans
2011-05-09 Time Travel for Ghosts
2011-05-08 Darwin, Some Rationalists and the Joker
2011-05-08 Peak Oil and the Tempo of the Earth
2011-05-07 My Experiments with Introductions
2011-05-07 Talking Temporal Illegibility in Montreal
2011-05-05 Why Some Drives are Fun
2011-05-04 Haircuts and the Guy Clock
2011-05-04 An Evening of Pace, Pace, Lead with Chuck
2011-05-03 Island Time vs. Mainland Time
2011-05-03 The Tempo of Food
2011-05-03 A Moment of Silence with John Boyd
2011-05-02 Week 1: DC, Wilmington, Albany, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto
2011-05-02 Week 1: DC, Wilmington, Albany, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto
2011-04-28 The Tempo Road Trip
2011-04-21 The Tempo Road Trip
2011-03-24 Say Hello to "Barbarian," the Crowd-Funded Ribbonfarm Laptop
2011-03-01 Where the Wild Thoughts Are
2011-02-23 Memories of Namdapha
2011-02-10 Waiting versus Idleness
2011-01-19 Boundary Condition Thinking
2011-01-01 How Leveraged are Your Resolutions?
2010-11-29 What Does it Mean to Work Hard?
2010-10-27 Warrens, Plazas and the Edge of Legibility
2010-09-14 Cricket as Metaphor
2010-08-30 Morning is Wiser Than Evening
2010-08-09 How to Take a Walk
2010-07-07 Becalmed in the Summer Doldrums
2010-06-30 The Philosopher's Abacus
2010-06-03 Three Off-Ribbonfarm Posts
2010-05-27 In the Real World...
2010-05-12 A Bumper May Harvest of Good Reading
2010-04-14 The Gervais Principle III: The Curse of Development
2010-04-12 Four-Hour Workweek or Executricks?
2010-04-01 An Elephant, Some Batteries and Julianne Moore
2010-03-23 Amy Lin and the Ancient Eye
2010-03-13 Linchpin by Seth Godin, and 8 Other Short Book Reviews
2010-03-07 An Infrastructure Pilgrimage
2010-01-28 The Misanthrope's Guide to the End of the World
2010-01-23 Impro by Keith Johnstone
2010-01-17 \"Up in the Air\" and the Future of Work
2010-01-07 On the Deathly Cold
2009-12-27 Work-Life Balance: Juggling, Spinning or Surfing? (Rerun)
2009-12-13 Random Promotions and the Gervais Principle
2009-11-05 One Good Thing About the 'Flu
2009-10-30 Baital Pachisi: An Indian Vampire Meta-Story
2009-10-26 Fear of Improvisation (and Clunkers)
2009-09-28 The Tao of Frogger
2009-09-23 The Allegory of the Stage
2009-09-17 Your Evil Twins and How to Find Them
2009-09-14 Knowing and Caring
2009-09-09 Time and Money: Separated at Birth?
2009-09-03 The Manager on Labor Day
2009-08-24 The Pregnancy Metaphor
2009-08-19 On Going Feral
2009-08-16 The Tragicomic Exasperations of Expertise
2009-08-10 Humor as Massage
2009-08-06 On Seeing Like a Cat
2009-07-29 The Book as a Social Signal
2009-06-07 Zen and the Art of Google Wave Mechanics
2009-05-05 Ribbonfarm at the Crossroads
2009-03-31 The Slash Effect
2009-03-26 The Tragedy of Wiio's Law
2009-02-21 The Solemn Whimsies of Larry Morris
2009-02-10 Health and the Happy Hamster
2009-01-23 Enculturation Recapitulates Civilization
2009-01-07 Allenism, Taylorism and the Day I Rode the Thundercloud
2008-12-31 Six Personal Favorites for 2008
2008-12-15 How to Make New Year's Calibrations
2008-12-01 Future-of-Work Mini-X-Prizes at Cloudworker.org
2008-11-09 Is There a Cloudworker Culture?
2008-10-23 The Cloudworker's Creed
2008-10-16 Mastering the Hype Cycle by Fenn and Raskino
2008-09-01 The Bloody-Minded Pleasures of Engineering
2008-08-24 How We Fly: Aircraft as Career Metaphors
2008-07-21 Towards a Philosophy of Destruction
2008-07-13 Work-Life Chemistry and How to Measure It
2008-07-06 Happy First Birthday, Ribbonfarm
2008-06-20 The Three-Leaps-of-Faith Rule
2008-06-03 Context-Switching Metaphors for Work-Life Blending
2008-05-20 The Evolution of Work-Life
2008-05-05 Art for Thought
2008-04-29 The Sage of Ribbonfarm #3
2008-04-22 The Sage of Ribbonfarm #2
2008-04-08 The New Location, Location, Location
2008-03-16 Bargaining with your Right Brain
2008-03-09 Trollope, Fitzgerald and Holmes for the Generalist's Soul
2008-03-05 The UnAha! Experience
2008-02-21 The Blue Tunnel
2008-02-19 Entrepreneurship, Intrapreneurship and Cross-preneurship
2008-02-16 A Map of Communication
2008-02-06 Creative Destruction: Portrait of an Idea
2008-01-16 2007 Review, 2008 Preview
2008-01-14 Coarse Actions, Fine Actions
2007-12-05 The Fine Art of Opportunism
2007-11-14 How to be an Idea Person
2007-11-01 Personal Brands, Identity and Perception Management
2007-10-22 Iron Filings on Your Brain
2007-10-15 Meditation on Disequilibrium in Nature
2007-10-09 Whales are Trees
2007-10-01 Where is I?
2007-09-26 The Dawn of the Century of Food
2007-09-19 Work-Life Balance: Juggling, Spinning or Surfing?
2007-09-13 Book-Reading Meme
2007-09-04 Meditations on Cataloging the Telluride Library
2007-08-27 Dan Pink, Howard Gardner and the Da Vinci Mind
2007-08-15 Ten Years in America
2007-08-13 The Parrot
2007-08-01 The Fifty-Foot Rule Reconsidered
2007-07-26 Framing the Consciousness Debates
2007-07-11 The Third Dimension is Not Simple
2007-07-06 Harry Potter and the Concept of Magic
2007-07-02 The House of Tata and Indian Innovation