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everyone can wait until it's my time to check the app. if we're friends, you can text.
Call it childfree elder millennial privilege. nothing an app can say to me -- work apps included -- is all that important. Nothing deserves immediate response.
Mar 18, 2024
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Earlier today, before reading this ask, I had been journaling about how to manage this in my own life.
There's a real power in unbroken flow, deep work, and space to think and abide. But in a flash it can be undermined by the "interrupt me" device in my pocket.
Texting and messaging people whenever we feel like it is normal behavior. Probably it should not be normal behavior, but that's where we've found ourselves. So if I want something different, then the responsibility is on me to hold space for it.
I don't have the tech rules in place yet, but I do like the idea of having one window of 30-60 minutes daily, or maybe a morning window and evening window, when I respond to instant messages. Over time, the folks in my life will understand that if it is urgent they should call me.
Nov 20, 2024
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the nytimes does not need to tell me every time someone dies
Jan 23, 2024
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so you check your texts like a social media…only when you open the app.
sorry to my friends <3
maybe make an exception on the weekend?
still workshopping.
Feb 19, 2024
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With all due respect to ruffianbandwidth
the University of Minnesota's Radio K is the classic model of the college alternative radio station The Current wishes it could be. (I still dig Mac Wilson's show tho). the Twin Cities is lucky enough to maintain more than one very cool radio station.
Radio K plays new bands who sometimes sound like old bands. An actual eclectic mix of genres. Random metal every now and again. College kids who, all these years later, keep spinning Jeff Buckley.
I'm always shazaming this station. It gives me hope that indie music still has a future.
My favorite thing is listening to the dj reading the top 5 songs of the week and feeling old because I have never heard of any of the bands but they all have hilarious names and song titles.
My other favorite thing is when a 20 year old dj plays Texas is the Reason followed by Braid in the middle of a "classic 00s emo" set.
Mar 23, 2024
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Both are easy-- Gimlet is a basic gin cocktail with lime and simple and it's the first thing you learn in cocktail school.
Last Word is a gimlet but with maraschino and chartreuse and good bartenders will know it. Dunno if there is still a chartreuse shortage tho.
Feb 9, 2024