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2021

I thought it might be interesting — for myself and perhaps also for you — to keep a more intentional record this year.

📖 Books

• Precognitive Dreamwork and the Long Self: Interpreting Messages from Your Future, by Eric Wargo (Apr 09 2021, Kobo)
• Letters from a Living Dead Man, by Elsa Barker (Feb 28 2021, Kindle)
• The Science of Near-Death Experiences, by John C. Hagan (Jan 27 2021, Hardcover)
• Dreamgates: Exploring the Worlds of Soul, Imagination, and Life Beyond Death, by Robert Moss (Jan 16 2021, Kindle)
• Fifty in Reverse, by Bill Flanagan (Jan 09 2021, Audible)
• The Man Who Folded Himself, by David Gerrold (Jan 05 2021, Kindle)
• Replay, by Ken Grimwood (Jan 01 2021, Audible)

🖥 On Screen (Films, TV, Etc.)

• The Show About the Show (May 11, 2021; YouTube)
• The Kid Detective (May 01, 2021; Apple Movies)
• The Artist Who Builds with Black Lego (Apr 23, 2021; Vice/YouTube)
• Circle of the Sun (Apr 20, 2021; YouTube)
• Glenn Gould - On the Record (Apr 19, 2021; YouTube)
• Out of the Blue (Apr 17, 2021; UFOTV)
• Inside (Apr 16, 2021; YouTube)
• Synchronic (Apr 12, 2021; Apple Movies)
• Cronos (Apr 10, 2021; Criterion Channel)
• Heist (Mar 28, 2021; Apple Movies)
• The Spanish Prisoner (Mar 21, 2021; Amazon Prime)
• Chungking Express (Mar 06, 2021; Criterion Channel)
• Beatrix Farrand’s American Landscapes (Feb 22, 2021; PBS)
• Jenny Grevatte | Keeping an Eye Open (Feb 4, 2021; YouTube)
• A Little Piece of Earth (Feb 1, 2021; Aeon)
• QAnon: The Search for Q (Jan 31, 2021; Vice)
• Jazz (Jan 30, 2021; PBS)
• Johnny Mnemonic (Sat, Jan 23, Amazon)
• Safety Not Guaranteed (Fri, Jan 16, Netflix)
• Surviving Death (Jan 11, 2021; Netflix)
• Solar Walk (Mon, Jan 04, Criterion Channel)
• The Red Balloon (Sun Jan 03, Criterion Channel)
• Orlando (Sat Jan 02, Amazon Prime)

📄 Notable Articles

• Pace Layers, by Noah Brier (Apr 22, 2021; NoahBrier.com)
• The internet didn’t kill counterculture—you just won’t find it on Instagram, by Caroline Busta (Apr 10, 2021; DocumentJournal.com)
• Computers and Creativity, by Molly Mielke (Mar 26, 2021; MollyMielke.com)
• Frank’s Corpus, by Elisabeth Nicula (Mar 25, 2021; Openspace.SFMOMA.org)
• The World’s First Programmable Organism, by Claire Evans (Mar 17, 2021; PioneerWorks.org)
• Inheritance, by Donny Truong (Feb 28, 2021; Visualgui.com)
• After Minimalism, by David Perell (Feb 16, 2021; Perell.com)
• God Knows Where - Atlas Minor Digest, by James A. Reeves (Feb 01, 2021; Substack)
• Hail the Maintainers, by Andrew Russell and Lee Vinsel (Jan 05, 2021; aeon.co)
• Out of the Matrix: Early Days of the Web, by Daniel Kehoe (Jan 05, 2021; blog.yax.com)
• Newsletters, by Robin Rendle (Jan 04, 2021; RobinRendle.com)
• What If You Could Do It All Over, by Joshua Rothman (Jan 01, 2021; The New Yorker)

✏ My Writing

• We Don’t Need More Information (May 14, 2021)
• The Problem With Design is Designers (May 07, 2021)
• Think About the Future’s Past (Apr 30, 2021)
• Encapsulated Experiences (Apr 23, 2021)
• 73 Ideas that Should Provoke You (Apr 16, 2021)
• Most Innovation Never Happens (Apr 09, 2021)
• The Power of Small Images (Apr 02, 2021)
• Other Ways (Mar 26, 2021)
• Future Objects (Mar 19, 2021)
• Your Phone is Destroying the World (Mar 12, 2021)
• The Circle of Now (Mar 05, 2021)
• The Riddle of the Square (Feb 26, 2021)
• Attention Stewardship (Feb 19, 2021)
• This Is Not Good Design (Feb 11, 2021)
• What to Do When Prospects Don’t Read Your Case Studies (Feb 09, 2021; Newfangled.com)
• Search Engines Don’t Work and They Are Not Good (Feb 05, 2021)
• Dreaming Big (Jan 29, 2021)
• Cross-Examining Coincidence in the Courtroom of Technology (Jan 27, 2021)
• That Coincidental Advertisement is Not Just a Coincidence (Jan 22, 2021)
• Good Prophecy Doesn’t Have to Be Right (Jan 15, 2021)
• We Have a Reality Problem (Jan 08, 2021)

Miscellaneous

• 💉 Vaccinated! (Pfizer; 2 of 2; May 05, 2021)
• 💉 Vaccinated! (Pfizer; 1 of 2; Apr 16, 2021)
• “Few Things Are That Shallow”, a conversation I did with Chris Martin on his podcast, Getting Work to Work (Apr 16, 2021)

💪 Fitness

• Sat, May 14 — 7.5-mile road run; 58 minutes; 825 cal
• Thu, May 13 — 45-min weight-training session; 420 cal
• Wed, May 12 — 35-min stair sprints; 465 cal
• Tue, May 11 — 60-min calisthenics; 400 cal
• Mon, May 10 — 35-min stair sprints; 462 cal
• Sun, May 09 — 45-min weight-training session; 480 cal
• Sat, May 08 — 7.7-mile road run; 59 minutes; 900 cal
• Fri, May 07 — 60-min weight-training session; 500 cal
• Thu, May 06 — 7.5-mile road run; 56 minutes; 840 cal
• Tue, May 04 — 40-min weight-training session; 320 cal
• Mon, May 03 — 35-min stair sprints; 480 cal
• Sun, May 02 — 45-min weight-training session; 400 cal
• Sat, May 01 — 7.2-mile road run; 55 minutes; 820 cal
• Fri, Apr 30 — 45-min weight-training session; 450 cal
• Wed, Apr 28 — 45-min weight-training session; 450 cal
• Tue, Apr 27 — 30-min stair sprints; 420 cal
• Mon, Apr 26 — 40-min weight-training session; 380 cal
• Sun, Apr 25 — 7.5-mile road run; 57 minutes; 848 cal
• Sat, Apr 24 — 50-min weight-training session; 491 cal
• Thu, Apr 22 — 7.5-mile road run; 57 minutes; 851 cal
• Wed, Apr 21 — 30-min weight-training session; 330 cal
• Tue, Apr 20 — 7.5-mile road run; 58 minutes; 850 cal
• Mon, Apr 19 — 45-min weight-training session; 400 cal
• Sun, Apr 18 — 7.6-mile road run; 59 minutes; 843 cal
• Sat, Apr 17 — 45-min weight-training session; 405 cal
• Thu, Apr 15 — 7.5-mile road run; 58 minutes; 865 cal
• Wed, Apr 14 — 45-min weight-training session; 375 cal
• Tue, Apr 13 — 40-min weight-training session; 350 cal
• Mon, Apr 12 — 30-min stair sprints; 450 cal
• Sun, Apr 11 — 45-min weight-training session; 410 cal
• Sat, Apr 10 — 7.6-mile road run; 61 minutes; 850 cal
• Fri, Apr 09 — 45min weight-training session; 400 cal
• Wed, Apr 07 — 40min weight-training session; 350 cal
• Tue, Apr 06 — 7.5-mile road run; 61 minutes; 840 cal
• Mon, Apr 05 — 45-min weight-training session; 400 cal
• Sun, Apr 04 — 45-min weight-training session; 450 cal
• Sat, Apr 03 — 9.1-mile road run; 79 minutes; 1,013 cal
• Thu, Apr 01 — 45-min weight-training session; 400 cal
• Wed, Mar 31 — 7.5-mile road run; 60 minutes; 800 cal
• Tue, Mar 30 — 45-min weight-training session; 456 cal
• Mon, Mar 29 — 30-min stair sprints; 451 cal
• Sun, Mar 28 — 45-min weight-training session; 410 cal
• Sat, Mar 27 — 9.1-mile road run; 71 minutes; 983 cal
• Thu, Mar 25 — 45-min weight-training session; 450 cal
• Wed, Mar 24 — 7.6-mile road run; 59 minutes; 829 cal
• Tue, Mar 23 — 45-min weight-training session; 447 cal
• Mon, Mar 22 — 30-min stair sprints; 450 cal
• Sun, Mar 21 — 45-min weight-training session; 300 cal
• Sat, Mar 20 — 9.2-mile road run; 70 minutes; 1,050 cal
• Thu, Mar 18 — 45-min weight-training session; 400 cal
• Wed, Mar 17 — 7.6-mile road run; 59 minutes; 801 cal
• Tue, Mar 16 — 45-min weight-training session; 400 cal
• Mon, Mar 15 — 30-min stair sprints; 460 cal
• Sun, Mar 14 — 45-min weight-training session; 490 cal
• Sat, Mar 13 — 10-mile road run; 78 minutes; 1,088 cal
• Thu, Mar 11 — 60-min calisthenics/weight-training; 450 cal
• Wed, Mar 10 — 40-min HIIT session; 450 cal
• Tue, Mar 09 — 45-min weight-training session; 415 cal
• Mon, Mar 08 — 30-min stair sprints; 450 cal
• Sun, Mar 07 — 40-min weight-training session; 400 cal
• Sat, Mar 06 — 10-mile road run; 78 minutes; 1,100 cal
• Thu, Mar 04 — 40-min Olympic Rings session; 400 cal
• Wed, Mar 03 — 8-mile road run; 62 minutes; 910 cal
• Tue, Mar 02 — 45-min weight-training session; 450 cal
• Mon, Mar 01 — 30-min stair sprints; 450 cal
• Sun, Feb 28 — 45-min weight-training session; 400 cal
• Sat, Feb 27 — 10-mile road run; 78 minutes; 1,090 cal
• Thu, Feb 25 — 40-min stair sprints; 500 cal
• Wed, Feb 24 — 40-min weight-training session; 370 cal
• Tue, Feb 23 — 8-mile road run; 60 minutes; 893 cal
• Mon, Feb 22 — 40-min weight-training session; 372 cal
• Sun, Feb 21 — 30-min stair sprints; 400 cal
• Sat, Feb 20 — 30-min weight-training session; 305 cal
• Sat, Feb 20 — 4.5-mile hike; 85 minutes; 405 cal
• Fri, Feb 19 — 8-mile road run; 59 minutes; 900 cal
• Thu, Feb 18 — 40-min weight-training session; 370 cal
• Wed, Feb 17 — 9-mile road run; 70 minutes; 960 cal
• Tue, Feb 16 — 30-min weight-training session; 350 cal
• Tue, Feb 16 — 4x 1-mile time trials; 6:24 mile; 400 cal
• Sun, Feb 14 — 30-min HIIT session; 500 cal
• Sat, Feb 13 — 60-min weight-training session; 550 cal
• Thu, Feb 11 — 7.5 mile road run; 800 cal
• Wed, Feb 10 — 40-min weight-training session; 350 cal
• Tue, Feb 09 — 9-mile road run; 69 minutes; 1,033 cal
• Mon, Feb 08 — 45-min weight-training session; 392 cal
• Sun, Feb 07 — 10-mile road run; 78 minutes; 1,049 cal
• Thu, Feb 04 — 40-min weight-training session; 400 cal
• Wed, Feb 03 — 8-mile road run; 59 minutes; 870 cal
• Tue, Feb 02 — 45-min calisthenics workout; 360 cal
• Mon, Feb 01 — 10-mile road run; 78 minutes; 1,100 cal
• Sun, Jan 31 — 35-min weight training session; 360 cal
• Sat, Jan 30 — 10-mile road run; 79 minutes; 1,052 cal
• Fri, Jan 29 — 40-min weight training session; 443 cal
• Wed, Jan 27 — 9-mile road run; 68 minutes; 962 cal
• Tue, Jan 26 — 60-min weight training session; 500 cal
• Sun, Jan 24 — 10-mile road run; 78 minutes; 1,079 cal
• Sat, Jan 23 — 45-min calisthenics workout; 400 cal
• Fri, Jan 22 — 3.3-mile hike; 60 minutes; 350 cal
• Thu, Jan 21 — 10-mile road run; 75 minutes; 1,127 cal
• Wed, Jan 20 — 60-min weight training session; 480 cal
• Tue, Jan 19 — 6-mile hike; 80 minutes; 610 cal
• Mon, Jan 18 — 45-min weight training session; 450 cal
• Sun, Jan 17 — 6.1-mile hike; 90 minutes; 640 cal
• Sat, Jan 16 — 45-min calisthenics workout; 380 cal
• Fri, Jan 15 — 30-min weight training session; 300 cal
• Thu, Jan 14 — 10-mile road run; 78 minutes; 1,018 cal
• Tue, Jan 12 — 9-mile road run; 70 minutes; 940 cal
• Mon, Jan 11 — 40-min HIIT session; 450 cal
• Sun, Jan 10 — 40-min weight training session; 319 cal
• Sat, Jan 09 — 11-mile road run; 86 minutes; 1,114 cal
• Thu, Jan 07 — 45-min calisthenics workout; 400 cal
• Wed, Jan 06 — 8-mile road run; 56 minutes; 765 cal
• Tue, Jan 05 — 40-min weight training session; 320 cal
• Mon, Jan 04 — 10-mile road run; 77 minutes; 1,031 cal
• Sun, Jan 03 — 45-min weight training session; 462 cal
• Fri, Jan 01 — 10-mile road run; 81 minutes; 967 cal