The best blog I’ve seen in ages
In which a blog inspires me to a creative challenge, which I'm committing myself to here.
All posts filed under: Reading lists, books, and imagination
The troublemakers of Gutenberg
Archives make good trouble.
Don’t let anyone tell you that you didn’t see what you saw
“Don’t let anyone tell you that you didn’t see what you saw. They want to shake your confidence, to shame you into doubting reality, to get you to use euphemisms and political language that is ‘designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable and give the appearance of solidity to pure wind'”. bitter southerner, via the One Nation Indivisible podcast; the inline quote is from Orwell’s Politics and the English Language.
A story prompt
These are rich times for making.
Don’t forget your lighter
A brief memo from Ray, Octavia, Eric, and Margaret.
Your dystopian reads for dystopian times
Do you like sleeping at night? Maybe skip this list.
2024’s best reads and listens
This year's list of my best reads and listens is a little bit different, and a whole lot shorter.
What will remain of us is books
How to pass the fight on to the next generation.
Your autumn 2024 privacy conference talk challenge
This is an important conference talk on privacy, law, and software development, but I'm not going to give it. You are.
2023’s best reads and listens
2023's best reads, for both work and leisure, and my favourite podcasts too.
Thank you Ray
Can a sci-fi story shape a child's future career? I can prove it's true in four pages.
2022’s best reads
The year's best books, articles, podcasts, and leisure reading too.