Recalibration Day
Current location: Milwaukee, WI, USA
Reading: A Place in the World by Frances Mayes
Listening: Oh No by Biig Piig
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Recalibration Day
I was thinking of claiming a "mental health day" today, but it's actually more of a "grand resetting in preparation for a few impending pivots" day.
One catalyst for this recalibration is the desire to rearrange aspects of my apartment for the autumn/winter months, making also some tweaks that'll allow me to (hopefully not too ham-handedly, but we'll see) produce more visual, video-things in the near-future (I'll talk more about this in the coming weeks).
Another is preparing to have company: my girlfriend—who's been in Baltimore preparing for a gallery show—is arriving back in Milwaukee this evening, and she'll be staying with me while getting back into the rhythm of her life in the Midwest.
I tend to keep things pretty tidy and organized (if "in motion" and well-used, rather than spotless and clinical), but I also like to do an extra round of deep-cleaning and reshuffling when I know someone else will be sharing my space for a bit.
So I've been moving things around, consolidating, and making-more-accommodating several aspects of my home, and will be putting the finishing touches on that process today.
I'm keeping this week's newsletter short, as a consequence, so I can focus on those efforts, while also finishing up some work before she arrives.
I hope your final-week-of-October is going splendidly, whether you're bringing order to your space and/or life, or settling into a routine and environment that's already well-sculpted for your current needs and ambitions :)
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Things I've Made This Week
Select, recent works from across my project portfolio.
Aspiring Generalist: Catastrophizing
Brain Lenses: Dark Triad (podcast)
Climate Happenings: COP27 and Climate Reparations
Let’s Know Things: Chip War (podcast)
Curiosity Weekly / Daily: Oct 25 / Oct 25
One Sentence News: Oct 26 (podcast)
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Interesting & Useful
Mapped: The World's Billionaire Population, by Country — www.visualcapitalist.com Collectively, worldwide billionaire wealth is nearly $12 trillion. This map breaks down where these 3,311 billionaires live around the globe.
20 Winning Images from the 2022 iPhone Photography Awards — mymodernmet.com Check out the winners of the 2022 iPhone Photography Awards to see the incredible visual capabilities of the iPhone.
An open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories.
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Outro
I got some really solid advice on this last week, but I'll ask one more time (in the hope that I'll be able to flesh out my growing list still-further).
Are you watching anything good right now? Films, TV shows, etc?
I would love to hear your suggestions if you have any. Thanks in advance :)
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