Flat, minimal city maps
Enter your city name and the tool renders a monochromatic map of all the streets in that city, without any names or labels. Download it as a vector file and then customise it. You could use it as a basis for a piece of art, maybe a poster for your office or as a gift for a loved one.
I saw this in Dense Discovery and had to try it out. Here’s the little town I grew up in. I love this.
Good advice here. Especially about creating ground rules. Make some rules for yourself. It’s easier to make decisions when you can ask Past You what you did last time. If you have a rule not to blog about breaking news or gossip, then it’s easy to refer to it when you’re tempted.
Ground rules are important for who you let in. This is your blog. Your space. Your little corner of the world. You don’t have to give a voice to anyone in it you don’t choose to. You’re not a politicians having to win favor. You’re not a company worried about making payroll or earnings reports.
You’re a person. Or people.
You decide.
You make the rules and can change them when it suits you. If something isn’t working, change it.
Life with a Series 0 Watch, Older Tech, and COVID-19 – Mark Crump
It’s not that I think the new Watches suck. It’s that they don’t solve $400 worth of problems for me.
A new purchase can solve a problem. But with it can come new problems. Does it need a new charger? Does it use the small army of accessories I already have for the device? Is there going to be something I can do now and won’t be able to do on the new one?
Looking at you Halo 5 with your lack of split screen game play.
Sometimes the problem it solves isn’t worth the price tag.
I can actually now use the Internet the way it’s currently being used by people — still slower than most, but with enough speed to get it done. That’s progress, here in rural America.
A Genuine Labor Day Miracle
John Scalzi shares a snippet of rural American internet in 2020. This is the reality 60 miles outside our nation’s capital. And millions of other homes across the country.
For all the talk of remote learning and working. There’s a conversation not happening around how this isn’t possible.
Welcome to Rural Internet.
MillennialLifeCrisis offers up a good reminder about Doin’ it for the gram…
Sometimes those cliff-hanging dare devils are only daring with their photo cropping skills.
Joshua Specter linked to a post in his newsletters saying When You Follow Someone New On Social Media, Post About It
Let’s say you find someone interesting to follow on social media.
Awesome. Now, spread the word about them.
And today, Spained-based tech and short story writer Riccardo Mori, pointed me to Mr. Mobile Michael Fisher
I trust Michael with my [tech] life. Every time I’ve purchased something he recommended, I’ve never been disappointed. https://t.co/GS8PF7qufo
— Riccardo Mori (@morrick) December 2, 2019
So there’s two to start with.
Washington has discovered that champions can live here. So why tolerate, let alone support, an atrociously run and constantly embarrassing franchise with a moral compass that is as twisted as a corkscrew?
Perfectly sums it up. Capitals won the Stanley Cup in 2018. The Mystics won the WNBA Championship this year. The Nationals won the World Series this year. The Redskins can’t score a touchdown.
If you’re looking for a less anxious November, CJ is going to post 30 tips in 30 days to decrease your anxiety.
I published my own thoughts on Luke Smith’s post about Destiny 2 from yesterday.
Good post on Stoicism – canion.me I found from a comment on Potatowire’s site
Boiling it down
The easy 1, 2, 3 of stoicism may be presented as:
If you can change it, it doesn’t deserve your worry. Go ahead and make the change. Just do it!
If you can’t change it, it doesn’t deserve your worry. You can’t fix it, so why stress?2
If you worry about it anyway, you are simply inviting it to tyrannise and traumatise you, indefinitely. Rumination is the worst.
Simple Stoicism.
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