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Courtney Robertson
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Sep 14, 2026
Even if your voice shakes
Leave safety behind. Put your body on the line. Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind--even if your voice shakes. When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say. Well-aimed slingshots can topple giants. Maggie Kuhn
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Courtney Robertson
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Sep 4, 2026
Risking embarrassment
When the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. When the risk to feel embarrassed becomes more painful than the risk it takes to try. Well, I know which risk I’d rather take. I need to take. It’s the same one I want for y’all......
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Hawkins-Weeks Photography
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Aug 13, 2026
Why spend so much time taking photos?
A personal exploration of what photography means to me
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Hawkins-Weeks Photography
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Aug 12, 2026
Why spend so much time taking photos?
A personal exploration of what photography means to me
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gordonbrander.com
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Jun 26, 2026
Software and seeds
They’re mostly self-sufficient, actually... They all got software and seeds. That’s the basic necessities. - Kim Stanley Robinson , Green Mars Related: Whole Earth Catalog
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Dominik Hofer
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Mar 12, 2026
The good ones among us
A philosophical take on how to cope with uncertainty in life.
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Blog - Doc
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Feb 3, 2026
Smart Quotation Deposit Payment With Trello
A AI generated quotation with Stripe checkout for deposit payment
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gordonbrander.com
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Oct 28, 2025
Ecosystems are smarter than we are
Beer thought that ecosystems are smarter than we are—not in their representational cognitive abilities, but in their performative ability to solve problems that exceed our cognitive ones. The quote above is from Andrew Pickering, The Cybernetic…
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gordonbrander.com
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Oct 28, 2025
Outcome over representation
But Beer started from this realization: in a world of exceedingly complex systems, for which any representation can only be provisional, performance is what we need to care about. ( Andrew Pickering , 2010, The Cybernetic Brain ) Stafford Beer and…
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gordonbrander.com
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Oct 28, 2025
Systems are counterintuitive
The human mind is not adapted to interpreting how social systems behave. Social systems belong to the class called multi-loop nonlinear feedback systems. In the long history of evolution it has not been necessary until very recent historical times…
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gordonbrander.com
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Oct 28, 2025
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations
Alfred North Whitehead : Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. And: Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle — they are strictly limited in number,…
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Dominik Hofer
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Aug 20, 2025
Success
A recipe for a good and fulfilling life.
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Joshua P. Steele
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Jul 31, 2025
Tech Hype and the Growing Chasm
Meredith Whittaker's warning about the widening gap between tech-optimist stories and the tech-encumbered reality people actually inhabit.
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gordonbrander.com
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Mar 20, 2025
The cybernetic equivalent of logic is oscillation
“Logic is a very elegant tool,” Bateson said, “and we’ve got a lot of mileage out of it for two thousand years or so. The trouble is, you know, when you apply it to crabs and porpoises, and butterflies and habit formation” – his voice trailed off,…
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gordonbrander.com
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Dec 9, 2024
Better to be surprised by a simulation
It’s better to be surprised by simulation than blindsided by reality. ( Stuart Candy )
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Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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Apr 15, 2022
❝The Quote Issue❞
“We use a lot of quotes at Tedium, but we’ve never done an issue of Tedium ABOUT quotations,” Ernie said when writing this piece. “Let’s fix that.”
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Chris McLeod
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Jan 6, 2015
Lao Tzu, on time:
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Alessandro Bahgat
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Oct 22, 2009
Better not to forget it: Nielsen on users
Here’s an insightful excerpt from Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox, September 21, 2009: Users don’t care about design for its own sake; they just want to get things done and get out. Normal people don’t love ...
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