Iron Widow
Iron Widow, Highlights
Syntopica
Babel
All my highlights and thoughts from Babel
Note to Self, Bookmark Your Work, Coda
Never lose sight of why you’re doing all of this.
Note to Self, Bookmark Your Work
Mark your place. Log. Summarise. Review.
On Invisible Inequity and Entrenched Privilege (In Open Source and the World)
Quotes from Kuang and Gibson about inequity and privilege
Publish! Show Your Work! You Don’t Have Leonardo’s Genius or Luck
Publish your work! Show up and show your work, as consistently as you can!
Create New Scars (or Calluses)
To create anything, you need to have a well to draw from!
Use Your Scars
Your life, your experience, your scars make you who you are!
Cashflow for Creators
If you want to someday make money from your skills and your craft, you owe it to yourself to read this. If you have never read Lucas, you owe it to yourself to read him. Buy Cashflow for Creators! My highlighted notes from the book follow … Craft is the nuts and bolts of how you do The Thing. For a writer, it’s stuff like grammar and spelling and reading. For a glass artist, it’s not mixing different COEs or—at the highest levels—how to mix different COEs....
A Love Letter to Books
Despite financial troubles there’s a sense in which my childhood was immensely privileged — a pauper in the material world, I was a sultan in the world of ideas. — Erik Hoel I started by wanting to share that quote and link on my microblog and then my thoughts turned into a blog post sized comment. I decided to post it here too, then. That quote describes my life to a T, even now....