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**Thought Shrapnel** @thoughtshrapnel@botsin.space · Nov 13, 2023

Nov 13, 2023

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Cosplaying adulthood

https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2023/11/13/cosplaying-adulthood/

Doug Belshaw's Thought Shrapnel · Nov 13, 2023Cosplaying adulthoodI discovered this article published at The Cut while Hacker News. I was immediately drawn to it, because one of the main examples it uses is 'cosplaying' adulthood while at kids' sporting events. There's a few things to say about this, in my experience. The first is that status tends to be confer

#ThoughtShrapnel #parenting #adulting

**Thought Shrapnel** @thoughtshrapnel@botsin.space · Nov 11, 2023

Nov 11, 2023

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Pufflings can't resist the bright lights of the city

https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2023/11/11/pufflings-cant-resist-the-bright-lights-of-the-city/

Doug Belshaw's Thought Shrapnel · Nov 11, 2023Pufflings can't resist the bright lights of the cityI haven't seen puffins in real life very often, but they're associated with the Farne Islands off the coast of Northumberland, my home county. They're a bird associated with more northern climes, and are enigmatic creatures. It's both sad and heartening to see that, to save them going extinct in

#ThoughtShrapnel #nature #biodiversity

**Thought Shrapnel** @thoughtshrapnel@botsin.space · Nov 3, 2023

Nov 3, 2023

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Happiness vs GDP

https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2023/11/03/happiness-vs-gdp/

Doug Belshaw's Thought Shrapnel · Nov 3, 2023Happiness vs GDPMaking the world a happier, fairer, safer place seems like an idea that most people can get behind. But how do you do it? Although there's a relationship between average self-reported happiness of a population and increased GDP per capita, there are notable outliers. So, what to do? Focus on othe

#ThoughtShrapnel #happiness #economics

**Thought Shrapnel** @thoughtshrapnel@botsin.space · Nov 1, 2023

Nov 1, 2023

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The French Jesuit priest who surveyed Roman forts by air

https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2023/11/01/the-french-jesuit-priest-who-surveyed-roman-forts-by-air/

Doug Belshaw's Thought Shrapnel · Nov 1, 2023The French Jesuit priest who surveyed Roman forts by airI'm not sure what's more fascinating: the scale of the Roman army's building (in this case, in Syria) or the French Jesuit priest who surveyed them by aeroplane. Either way, the history geek in me loves this. Back in the early days of aerial archaeology, a French Jesuit priest named Antoine

#ThoughtShrapnel #history #archaeology

**Thought Shrapnel** @thoughtshrapnel@botsin.space · Oct 26, 2023

Oct 26, 2023

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Is this the end of the 'extremely online' era?

https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2023/10/26/is-this-the-end-of-the-extremely-online-era/

Doug Belshaw's Thought Shrapnel · Oct 26, 2023Is this the end of the 'extremely online' era?As I mentioned in a recent post, you can't win a war against system designed to destroy your attention. You have to try a different strategy. One of those is disengaging, which is what Thomas J Bevan is noticing, and advocating for, in this post. I like his mention of going to a place where he no

#ThoughtShrapnel #society #culture

**Thought Shrapnel** @thoughtshrapnel@botsin.space · Oct 25, 2023

Oct 25, 2023

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Zoom backgrounds with a Japanese nature retreat vibe

https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2023/10/25/zoom-backgrounds-japanese/

Doug Belshaw's Thought Shrapnel · Oct 25, 2023Zoom backgrounds with a Japanese nature retreat vibeNot only did I love Swarnali Mukherjee’s writing in this post, I also absolutely adored the image that went with it. You may have noticed that I created something similar-looking with DALL-E 3 to illustrate one of yesterday's posts. As we're moving house at the moment, and my home office is full

#ThoughtShrapnel #VirtualBackground #Nature

**Thought Shrapnel** @thoughtshrapnel@botsin.space · Oct 24, 2023

Oct 24, 2023

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Laying to rest a foundational myth

https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2023/10/24/laying-to-rest-a-foundational-myth/

Doug Belshaw's Thought Shrapnel · Oct 24, 2023Laying to rest a foundational mythThe widely accepted "Man the Hunter" theory proposes that during human evolution, men evolved to hunt while women focused on gathering and domestic duties such as child-rearing. However, as reported in Scientific American, it turns out that recent research is challenging this view. Scientific stu

#ThoughtShrapnel #archaeology #mythology

**Thought Shrapnel** @thoughtshrapnel@botsin.space · Oct 21, 2023

Oct 21, 2023

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Notification literacy, monk mode, and going outside for a walk

https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2023/10/21/notification-literacy-monk-mode-and-going-outside-for-a-walk/

Doug Belshaw's Thought Shrapnel · Oct 21, 2023Notification literacy, monk mode, and going outside for a walkBack on my now-defunct literaci.es blog I had a post about notification literacy. My point was that instead of starting from the default position of having all notifications turned on, you might want to start from a default of having them all turned off. On my Android phone running GrapheneOS, I

#ThoughtShrapnel #notifications #attention

**Thought Shrapnel** @thoughtshrapnel@botsin.space · Oct 20, 2023

Oct 20, 2023

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Microcast #102 — Rituals and Routines

https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2023/10/20/microcast-102-rituals-and-routines/

#ThoughtShrapnel #microcast #podcast

**Thought Shrapnel** @thoughtshrapnel@botsin.space · Oct 12, 2023

Oct 12, 2023

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Microcast #101 — Self-esteem, pies, and moving house

https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2023/10/12/microcast-101-self-esteem-pies-and-moving-house/

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**Thought Shrapnel** @thoughtshrapnel@botsin.space · Oct 11, 2023

Oct 11, 2023

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Well, when you put it like that...

https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2023/10/11/well-when-you-put-it-like-that/

Doug Belshaw's Thought Shrapnel · Oct 11, 2023Well, when you put it like that...This came across my timeline earlier this week and it's a pretty stark reminder / wake-up call. For 'Mastodon', of course, read 'The Fediverse'. You could add LinkedIn to this list, but then that's owned by Microsoft, a company who I have detested for fully 25 years. To recap your options in this

#ThoughtShrapnel #SocialMedia #SocialNetworks

**Thought Shrapnel** @thoughtshrapnel@botsin.space · Oct 10, 2023

Oct 10, 2023

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Billionaires shouldn't exist, even if they're philanthropists

https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2023/10/10/billionaires-shouldnt-exist-even-if-theyre-philanthropists/

#ThoughtShrapnel #wealth #philanthropy

**Thought Shrapnel** @thoughtshrapnel@botsin.space · Oct 4, 2023

Oct 4, 2023

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Climate havens

https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2023/10/04/climate-havens/

#ThoughtShrapnel #ClimateEmergency #migration

**Thought Shrapnel** @thoughtshrapnel@botsin.space · Sep 21, 2023

Sep 21, 2023

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Microcast #98 — Endorsement

https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2023/09/21/microcast-98-endorsement/

Doug Belshaw's Thought ShrapnelMicrocast #98 — EndorsementThe introduction to some thoughts on endorsement using Open Badges and Verifiable Credentials within networks of trust.

#ThoughtShrapnel #microcast #OpenBadges

**Thought Shrapnel** @thoughtshrapnel@botsin.space · Sep 16, 2023

Sep 16, 2023

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Good news on Covid treatments

https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2023/09/16/good-news-on-covid-treatments/

#ThoughtShrapnel #Covid #immunology

**Thought Shrapnel** @thoughtshrapnel@botsin.space · Sep 14, 2023

Sep 14, 2023

Thought Shrapnel @thoughtshrapnel@botsin.space

#Microcast #097 — What do we mean by ‘consensus’?

https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2023/09/14/microcast-097-what-do-we-mean-by-consensus/

Doug Belshaw's Thought ShrapnelMicrocast #097 — What do we mean by 'consensus'?Exploring different conceptions of 'consensus' using polls on the Fediverse and LinkedIn, as well as reflecting on my own experience. Show notes Poll on Mastodon (Fediverse) Poll on LinkedIn ChatGPT conversation Image: Unsplash

#ThoughtShrapnel #consensus #DecisionMaking

**Thought Shrapnel** @thoughtshrapnel@botsin.space · Sep 13, 2023

Sep 13, 2023

Thought Shrapnel @thoughtshrapnel@botsin.space

Fandom and AI generated music

https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2023/09/13/fandom-and-ai-generated-music/

#ThoughtShrapnel #fandom #AI

**Thought Shrapnel** @thoughtshrapnel@botsin.space · Sep 11, 2023

Sep 11, 2023

Thought Shrapnel @thoughtshrapnel@botsin.space

Status detection systems

https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2023/09/11/status-detection-systems/

#ThoughtShrapnel #status #games

**Thought Shrapnel** @thoughtshrapnel@botsin.space · Sep 7, 2023

Sep 7, 2023

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Some advice for readers

https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2023/09/07/some-advice-for-readers/

Doug Belshaw's Thought ShrapnelSome advice for readersLess 'rules' than notes, this post by Ryan Holiday (himself a prolific author) is worth reading. I like the part where he turns the tables, "You say you don’t have time to read but what does the screen time app on your phone say? What does your calendar say?" Along the way, Holiday emphasises the

#ThoughtShrapnel #reading #advice

**Thought Shrapnel** @thoughtshrapnel@botsin.space · Sep 5, 2023

Sep 5, 2023

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B Lane

https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2023/09/05/b-lane/

Doug Belshaw's Thought ShrapnelB LaneThere's a lot going on in this short post. It reminded me of a saying of Steve Jobs: "A players attract A players. B players attract C players." Now there's something in that, in terms of the mentality that people bring to working hard and playing hard. But this post is talking about the way that

#ThoughtShrapnel #competition #mindset

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