Ryan Christensen

@rpch
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Web dev/operations enthusiast,
tenured thinker of thoughts.
Contact / Linkshttps://rpch.io/
Writinghttps://infrequencies.com/
Photoshttps://glass.photo/rpch
@brad_frost you are also far more likely to enter the flow state when you act on fresh ideas.

“Upcoming American neo-noir action thriller film directed by David Fincher […] stars Michael Fassbender, Charles Parnell, Arliss Howard, Sophie Charlotte, and Tilda Swinton,” you say?

Now I hear Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross are attached? I’m not sure I could *be* any more ready...

While ordering a new pair of glasses today, I was reminded of a misunderstanding I carried further into my adult years than I'd care to mention:

For the longest time, I thought “astigmatism” was two words. (As in, a singular stigmatism.)

My kingdom for a way to easily change permissions across nested folders and files in #GoogleDrive

450+ issues and 300+ Pull Requests created in the past month

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If ever there was a spiritual successor to Dirty Sexy Money with a splash of Mad Men… I feel like Succession is definitely it.

This morning on Twitter I went through my follow list and unfollowed almost all the media/news/politics accounts I came across. I'll still get the news, and I want to stay updated. But is the quality of my day increased with by-the-minute flashes from the horse’s mouth? No.

Has my enjoyment of my feed changed? Significantly.

But I’m reminded that building your follow list from an otherwise clean slate becomes an entirely different (and refreshing) beast. Something not weighed down with historical baggage of past decisions or curiosities. Just like writing, it can be awful refreshing to set aside the last draft and start again with a blank sheet of paper. (Though that extreme change isn’t needed to see a meaningful difference.
The change in experience I’ve had through Mastodon in the little time I’ve started to spend there has been significant (and something I know I’m far from alone in noting.) I think a variety of factors play into it—factors beyond the recent general chaos behind the scenes at Twitter (though it surely doesn’t help.)

I’ve long put this perspective forward when discussing the “value” of social media with friends, but it bears remembering when I'm exhausted by the content that fills my feed on (insert social network here):

Our feeds are what we make of them. We—generally speaking—control the sources that we’re asking to get updates and messages from. 🧵...