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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Wait, what?
Some estimates put the total number of words of fan fiction written a year at 100 billion words.
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Eating From the Trough
For the next week, at least, I’ve decided to eat as much slop from the trough as possible. To find out what it’s like.
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Back for a Speech
I went down to The Chalk because my dad was stepping down as president of a club he is a member of and he had to give a speech.
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Public Thoughts, Private Room
A blog is not—and never will be—the full contents of a mind. And proper diary remains a private room. And I’m okay with that.
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Happy With My E-reader
A paperback on the Tube, meanwhile, is porous. It leaks a little cultural texture into the space around it.
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I Watch Bright Things Unfold Themselves
All I really have to report this week is that I like a single sentence that I wrote. Sometimes just the one is enough!
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Easter ’25
I went back down to the chalk on Wednesday last week and was really blessed by the weather.
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Nearly Finished Business
Since the start of the year I’ve been on a bit of a mission. One aspect of which has been to finish all the books I had in progress.
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Heavy Things
Anu’s essay Make Something Heavy over on the Working Theorys newsletter has been making waves in my media sphere this week.
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Without Ceremony
I don’t think I’ve ever shared a full poem I’ve written on my blog? I would like to take steps to change that. It is the time for it.
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Week Away
I went away last week. 5 nights in Gran Canaria. We went to a huge hotel, ate loads of buffet food and sat by the pool. AND we watched a…
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Flowers at Saatchi
I went to see Flowers at the Saatchi Gallery. Rebecca Louise Law’s la fLEUR MORTE is a sculpture that uses flowers and time as a medium.
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A Future Funded Elsewhere
The UK’s creative tech funding is stuck in sticky bureaucracy. Meanwhile, Europe backed Flow—and it won an Oscar.
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Green Lung
I went to see Green Lung at the Kentish Town Forum last night, there’s something deeply comforting about being in a room full of metalheads.