Scratch Pad: Oblique, Pace, Apps

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 serves, I’ve found, as a positive and mellowing influence on my online activity. Some items show up on disquiet.com before this post, in which case I don’t repeat them. 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. ▰ There’s a lot of little things I do each morning, and one is to look at two Oblique Strategies cards, little sparks at the day’s start. Today’s random drawings were both single words: “Decorate”* and “Cascades.” *I think the original card was “Decorate, decorate” but not how it appears on this web app** I have bookmarked **Yeah, I also have the little black box of cards ▰ A book club I’m in pushed the meeting back three weeks,…

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