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“It doesn’t have to be the way it is” is a playful statement, made in the context of fiction, with no claim to “being real.” Yet it is a subversive statement. Subversion doesn’t suit people who, feeling their adjustment to life has been successful, want things to go on just as they are, or people who need support from authority assuring them that things are as they have to be. Fantasy not only asks “What if things didn’t go on just as they do?” but demonstrates what they might be like if they went otherwise—thus gnawing at the very foundation of the belief that things have to be the way they are.
No Time to Spare
Ursula K. Le Guin, Karen Joy Fowler (Introduction)
I use the following rules of thumb to tell me which digital storage medium is best for any given piece of information:
* If it’s an appointment or meeting happening at a specific time, it goes on my calendar
* If it’s a task that I can complete anytime, it goes in my to-do list app
* If it’s text, it goes in my notetaking app (since that offers the best search function by which to find it again)
* If it’s content that I’ll be collaborating on with others, it goes in my cloud storage drive
* If it can’t go in any of the above locations (because it’s too large or a specialized file type, for example), then it goes in my computer’s file system (the Documents folder)
The PARA Method
Tiago Forte
we’ve separated the moral and the political. Conservatives gets the moral and progressives get the political, each group acting as if the two things aren’t intimately related.
Reviving Old Scratch
Richard Beck
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