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Best of the blogs ▷ I’ve downsized my possessions twice in my life — once massively. Going through your things to decide what stays, you find things that bring back memories and what they are is always a surprise. As Jason Kottke downsizes for a major life transition, what surprised him was his spice drawer. Every divorced dad has a version of this story. Read The Spice Drawer ▷ When I toured Indiana’s Lincoln Highway last year, I missed a few cool things. Thankfully, there’s Ted Shideler to make up for at least one of them. Read The Log Cabin Inn on the old Lincoln Highway ▷ You know I’ve been experimenting with using AI in my writing process. Michael Lopp wrote a useful essay about this. His claim that “the robots have no voice” is a little overstated in my opinion — but he rescues it at the end by giving an example of how humanity shows up, and how AI can’t do that. Read Robots Have No Voice Kodak Brownie Starmatic, Kodak Portra 160, 2012 Cameras and photography ▷ The exibit from…