GOOD Friday. Nature has third space for connection is an ever deepening theme of personal experience and inquiry.

This morning: Hill repeats with the lads.

📍PKOLS

Replicating here a gratitude post shared with an org-spanning group for such things, a little but impactful highlight of my worklife:

Grateful to witness this little moment of magic this morning, and to inhabit the rower’s flow, vicariously, for a moment.

Picked this up at the recommendation of the good folks at the amazing Fable Book Parkour in Revelstoke while visiting last week. Breezy, compelling, haunting read.

New office this week = new, longer commute. Made longer still in order to avoid boring standard roadways and make use of Victoria’s brilliant network of painted / protected bike lanes and rails-to-trails routes, including this beautiful final mile over our urban Gorge waterway.

Timeline cleanse.

(I’ve wanted to cohabitate with a stellate mag for as long as I can remember. Rehoming this one from a colleague 2 years ago was and remains such a gift. She feels like a portent of positivity to me.)

Happy spring.

“Cheaper not to care” This is the slogan of so many industrial behemoths and existing bureaucracies. It's in quotation marks for a reason: it's not true. Not in the long run, not even in the medium run. One way to highlight the hollowness of this edict is to say it out loud. For a while, it might make the stock price go up. But it doesn't last. It never does.

“Cheaper not to care”

This is the slogan of so many industrial behemoths and existing bureaucracies. It's in quotation marks for a reason: it's not true. Not in the long run, not even in the medium run. One way to highlight the hollowness of this edict is to say it out loud. For a while, it might…

Back home. Another great start to another Friday, with/in PKOLS for some hill reps with the lads and a solo swim. In company with Nature FTW, again.

No notes.

📍: The Village Idiot, Revelstoke, B.C.

Feeling grateful for the spaciousness of a slow, agendaless day away from our norms. Amidst it, the daymaker of coming across these "Art Alleries" installations in @cityofrevelstoke.bsky.social - pictured: Rob Buchanan's"Contemporary
Landscapes" and Leah Allison & Cajsa Fredin's "Flyga."

The Five Beauties of Disappointment Organizations rarely welcome disappointment.

“When organizations treat disappointment as a signal rather than a disruption, the conversation changes. We move from who is upset to what the system is showing us. Dignity grows when institutions have the courage to listen to signals that reveal their limits.” open.substack.com/pub/stanchun...

💯

Putinism Haș Come To America The early years of Putin are the most relevant history now

“If [people*] are unfamiliar with the early years of Putin’s rise to dictatorship, I suggest they start reading. In a hurry.

The essence of Putinism is power. Not ideology. Power.”

*”billionaires” in the original, but *first they came …*

open.substack.com/pub/dgardner...

An open source/community based, privacy-by-design version of Strava (for health/fitness tracking) where users pay to cover basic costs, no margin … is this a thing?

Switch to Claude without starting over | Claude Transfer your preferences, projects, and context from other AI providers into Claude. Switch without losing what makes your AI useful.

If you’re moving from OpenAI’s ChatGPT to Anthropic’s Claude, there is a prompt for that

(To bring over your account’s memory)

claude.com/import-memory

(And I recognize the irony in where I read that post. 😬)

The Death of Spotify: Why Streaming is Minutes Away From Being Obsolete Jimmy Iovine just called the Death of Spotify. He might be right.

“We are witnessing the death of the ‘Mass Audience’ and the birth of the ‘Micro-Community.’”

open.substack.com/pub/joelgouv...

I’m one of those Gen Xers who grew up with Allan Moyle’s “Pump Up the Volume” as a rallying cry, for whom love of music - & artists - runs DEEP. So here for this shift.

Image of a slide displaying the text "A prototype is a series of questions waiting to be answered."

Love this, wanted to share, from today's Demo Day, by way of design lead Jane. cc @gordonr.ca

Loved being part of this conversation. Well … loved the chance to open up and share an ongoing conversation alongside this wonderful group @alexmaceachern.bsky.social @codeforcanada.bsky.social @bluesky.sboots.ca … big thanks for the opp, PD x @fwd50conf.bsky.social!

Trying / testing out the (re)new(ed) Digg … who else is in there?

AI maniac CEOs beta.digg.com/funny/jLtlKEq

bcmj.org/council-heal...

"Eco-distress—distress from changes to the environment—is a normal reaction to threatened and actual loss of individuals, communities, and ecosystems. Clinicians should validate patients’ concerns..."

@drmelissalem.bsky.social @cape-bc.bsky.social
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Bonus when said friends arrive bearing beautiful and resonant gifts. 🙏

“The national flower of Ukraine has grown into a symbol of sovereignty and courage—the sunflower. I see it as a lovely symbol of victory over tyranny.” ~ @victorygardenoftomorrow 🌻

Friends who stop by to pick flower and food friends to take to and nourish friends returning home from hospital is the kind of community we want to be part of. ❤️

(Cf. Timely relevance of “I know a guy who grows food and flowers” exchange w/ @ceej.online & @spencerkeys.bsky.social minutes ago. 🤓)

However it’s worded, one thing I know for sure is that my wife - who manages a farm, drives the hell out of a skid steer and fixes a mean fence - is a far more valuable participant in the I Know a Guy gift and exchange economy than I. 🤓

This is a Guy Thing I remain fully behind … while also extending a nod of acknowledgement and gratitude to the even deeper Gal Economy … and to the fact those Guy Things are equally well fulfilled also by Gals … gah, let’s just help each other out. 😉❤️👌

One of the things you learned at 18F and USDS is that government isn’t like a business: it has to serve everybody and not just specific market segments that are the most convenient.

Interested … but a few thousand kilometres out of the way to join. 😉

Yard work companion.