I’ve never been much for listening to music while I do work. I’ve always found it distracting if not downright annoying. I don’t really believe I’m capable of multitasking. If a task requires my focus and coordination it will get the sum of it. I’m not convinced anyone is particularly good at it if the […]
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Day 1553 and Omens
A friend recently texted excitedly about seeing spotted owl near their urban home. In cities it’s rare to spot these birds. Just a few days later we got our own visitor. A pair of owls hooting and calling to each other over the barn. Owls have a fairly diverse set of meanings depending on your […]
Day 1552 and Mold Updates
Over the winter we did a mold test on our bedroom after I had had a batch of sub-optimal bloodwork and flares in my autoimmune condition. We wanted to be thorough in assessing potential reasons for any issues from environmental to pharmaceutical. I was suspicious that mold would be a culprit. Or perhaps I did […]
Day 1551 and Jokes On Us
April Fool’s Day is just the worst. Practical jokes were much more enjoyable when telling the truth was still a widely accepted social norm. Our moment is one of a thousand falsehoods. Our commitment to the truth and a shared sense of what separates truth from falsehoods has never felt shakier to me. It’s one […]
Americans are mere days away from the dreaded April 2nd tariff reveal and the mood could not be more sour. If only America was a few good zoning reform bills further along. Then we could house 700 million more people and our Abundance bro moderate liberals would be in a better mood. Alas it’s easy […]
Day 1547 and Fragrance Free
Going to a spa or a hair appointment has an added layer of stress when you’ve got skin allergies. I don’t need clean or organic beauty (though I do prefer it). It’s not about being fancy so much as I need it to be free of synthetic fragrances like Limonene. Limonene is a naturally occurring, […]
I am confident in my capacity to judge directional trends over time. I’ve been doing it consistently for close to twenty years. I’ve made solid bets that outweigh the wrong calls. But right now I feel lost. I feel blind to short and medium term outcomes. I don’t know what happens next or in what […]
Yesterday I was lucky enough to get a tour of a new mixed use housing development on the south side of Bozeman called Blackwood Groves. I was introduced to one of the developers Dave through the serendipity of Twitter. He graciously walked Alex and I through the plans for community. It’s thoughtful in including a […]
Continuing their exceptional data visualization work, the Financial Times shows how young Americans are losing trust in our institutions through a series of grim charts powered by Gallop polling.  What a fun set of polling data on the day we have Tim Walz stomping around saying industry sucks. We have no future and the […]
In what has become a real persistent mood this winter, I have another dumb problem. I am losing my hair. Literally. As it turns out stress can trigger hair into mistakenly going into what is called a rest phase. Perplexity tells me this is a temporary condition where significant stress pushes large numbers of hair […]