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Percentages are reversible. 8% of 25 is the same as 25% of 8, and often one of them is much easier to do in your head.
| pronouns | they/them |
| reading | The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman |
| work | http://vaida.me |
Vaida 🍃
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Designer learning to take time for myself and curious about positive interactions with technology.
radios. pretty cool concept
Also, in the past week or so I've started listening to the radio (KEXP), which I never do, and I'm kind of mindblown.
I usually use Spotify and let it run recommended songs after a playlist of mine, so it's been so nice to hear more diverse & interesting music, and the air breaks make it feel so much more... personal? Knowing that someone is hand-picking the songs and other people are hearing the same things as me.
I'm taking a course on temporal design & critical time studies this semester and it's really interesting! It's about how social factors affect how we perceive, define & act on time, and how time is political, eg. how colonialism has imposed their time on indigenous cultures.
It's my first discussion-based class, so I'm looking forward to learning a lot!
Here's a sneak peek from the introduction of "Timing Canada: The Shifting Politics of Time in Canadian Literary Culture"
Wondering how I could track the work I do on different projects in a way that allows me to remember what I've been working on, but not make me feel guilty if I haven't been consistent-- they're meant as personal projects, so I don't want to add unnecessary pressure 🤔
So far, I'm in the process of moving from Chrome to Firefox, and planning on asking if some of my friends use/would consider using Signal instead of Messenger.
I'm also thinking about Google Drive/Docs/Sheets alternatives-- I'm quite curious about https://cryptpad.fr/index.html !
I've started chipping away at moving to more privacy-respecting services, mostly using https://www.privacytools.io/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/ as resources. It's a slow and gradual process, but it's a great opportunity to start fresh, figure out what I want and how I want to use it!
This comes at the same time as me trying to use a pick with my guitar for the first time in ages and realising I like it-- it helps me play more complex strumming patterns! So I've been playing for a bit in the evenings, and it's been really rewarding, especially since both Phoebe and Angie have nice decorations/rhythms in their guitar playing that I can practise.
My current rotation for the past few days has been Angie McMahon's Salt, and Phoebe Bridger's Stranger in the Alps. Both have lots of songs with chords on UltimateGuitar, so I've been having a lot of fun playing them!
A lovely conversation about songwriting, collaboration and being a fan. Carrie & Maggie vibe off each other really well, and I love Maggie's work. Hope they do more of these!