Mere Being - 032 - June - summer sports, Brandon Sanderson, tagines

Hello again, from Hotness! Yes, it does get warm in Minnesota— yesterday the high was 95 degrees. The cantaloupe I'm trying to grow likes it, at least?(This is a little bit late because family stuff— everything's good, but I had to travel for a few days and decided to leave the laptop at home. It's going to take me a day or two to get caught up on various newsletters.)Other WritingA bunch of new essays up on the site in June. Most of you are also on the weekly newsletter but just in case you missed any:See a Good BirdWant to be happier at work? Try joining a churchThe Tech Debt Snowball MethodWhy I don't use story pointsAlso, there are now 18 issues up of Walking in Oakland, a pop-up newsletter of photographs and short essays I wrote in 2021 that I'm re-releasing as a benefit for paid subscriptions. (And you can read more about the membership program here.)Here's the kind of thing you can expect from those short essays:As the crowds thinned out on my little walk, as I got away from…