Better Talks and Reading Metaphors

Hello from my home in Helsinki! This is NordLetter #125, a weekly newsletter on living and walking in Finland. To follow the series, you can subscribe here. A new NordLetter will land in your inbox every Sunday. Not a fan of newsletters? No problem! You can read previous editions here. You can also subscribe to the RSS feed. You can reach out to me by replying to this mail. I am also posting on Mastodon. Searching things A surprising way I use my website is for its search function. This was not an original use case for the website, the why of the thing. (I don't think I ever wrote the why of my website down anywhere. I mean, there is a doc which talks about the how of the thing, the inspirations I've had and so on. I just skimmed it, there is no why section there.) I use Obsidian to write. It has a built-in search functionality, but on Thursday, as I was thinking about this edition, I could not find a note I knew I had. I just left it at that, but I found it today while searching for…