Scratch Pad: Conrad, Lag, DSQT

At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I tag on what books I may have finished reading. Knowing I’ll revisit my social media posts, I’ve found, serves as a positive and mellowing influence on my online activity. I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also trying out a few others. And I generally take weekends off social media. ▰ Didn’t recall that Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) dedicated The Secret Agent to H.G. Wells (1866–1946), whom Conrad describes as “historian of the ages to come” ▰ Just got back very late Tuesday night from an overseas trip, over two weeks, and my brain is melting from jet lag. As I prepared the weekly Disquiet Junto project on Wednesday, I mentioned in the announcement note (via juntoletter.disquiet.com), which would go out automatically a few hours later, that there was “a 95% chance a typo of some magnitude will be…