Category: Weeknotes 🗓️
A weekly missive from the virtual desktop of Jay Springett.
Each issue covers what I’ve been: reading, doing, thinking about, some links recommendations, a good meme and more.
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Word Diet
My plan is for the next week to reduce the amount of words I consume via a screen radically.
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Heat It Up at Home
We broke dry January yesterday as it was Eve’s birthday. We started drinking at 1pm. Now I have a hangover.
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Cold, Wet and Miserable
It’s cold, wet and miserable here in south London. But I did get a raincoat for my bike off ebay.
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Cut It in Half
Cut everything in half and lower your expectations.
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You Are You but Different on the Internet
Just as you are you but different in a dream, you are you but different on the internet.
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Plan To Finish
Any behaviour that entices others away/out from the feeds and endless doomscrolling feed is welcome.
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Showing Up in the Wild
Introducing a new section to the weeknotes this week: Correspondence Culture.
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Passive Quantified Systems
I think there could be a lot more done representing my phone use beyond lame bubbles falling down every-time I unlock my phone.
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All Thoughts Fly
Moaning about spending/wasting too much time on my phone is the perennial topic for this blog.
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Substacklash
I don’t really have any thoughts on the Substack backlash beyond urging people to ignore their impulse to disparage tall poppies and instead remember the long tail of people on…
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A Different Type Of Doom
In honour of Salem’s first album release for a decade. I wrote about Witch House. Where it was back then and where it’s gone.
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Millions of Amygdalas
There must be millions of amygdalas burnt out around the world. What a week for people addicted to infotainment and social media this must have been?
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Panning The Streams
I’ve spent the week thinking about/observing my behaviour in the feeds more closely
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Choose Your Own Internet
One of the advantages of spending less on social media is deciding where you do want to spend your time on the Internet.