[FBT] on Wear and Waffle
A festival. A wedding. A moment. A sudden death. Collective grieving. 3,632km driving on the left. Hiking and empty beaches, a fairy forest, a missing… Read More »[FBT] on Wear and Waffle
FBT
A category for Freshly Brewed Thoughts (aka my newsletter)
[FBT] on Grief and Gardening
One of you once wrote me that “Grief is strange, oddly supple, and rises up in very peculiar waves.” Supple. Merriam Webster provides several definitions… Read More »[FBT] on Grief and Gardening
[FBT] on Sellouts and Savants
“Writing — writing of any sort, not just an email — is a thousands-year-old technological hack to get around not being in person; but that… Read More »[FBT] on Sellouts and Savants
[FBT] on Sovereignty and Stacks
If I weren’t going on sabbatical soon, and if I were so inclined to update my resume, I too would be highlighting the “tech sovereignty”… Read More »[FBT] on Sovereignty and Stacks
Rising Scholars: Sprinting with INASP
cross posted on the WAO blog WAO is working with INASP, an international development organization with over 30 years’ experience of working with a global… Read More »Rising Scholars: Sprinting with INASP
[FBT] on Pull and Perception
As much as mainstream culture is enveloping the force-fed overtone window of suck that is maxxing and efficiency and objectification and dehumanization, there are others.… Read More »[FBT] on Pull and Perception
[FBT] on Timing and Transitions
No news is good news, or so people say when they are trying to convince themselves that not knowing and everything being ok is congruent.… Read More »[FBT] on Timing and Transitions
[FBT] on Witches and Wankers
Susu must have been a nickname for Susanna or Susanne or Suzanne. Susu ist a Chinese name. Or Japanese. Or Hawaiian. Or it’s from the… Read More »[FBT] on Witches and Wankers
[FBT] on Glistening and Gobsmacking
Questions and curiosities serve as the basis of scientific study and are a habitual pattern for lifelong learners. When a human brain suddenly cannot let… Read More »[FBT] on Glistening and Gobsmacking
[FBT] on Parlance and Pilots
I found a note to self and wondered if I had ever mentioned the Crypt Keeper to you. Turns out, yes. This is a good… Read More »[FBT] on Parlance and Pilots