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Made me chuckle...
My daughters favourite story for the past two weeks has been about Bop and Biff two boxers who train for a fight, knock eachother out and then become friends and have a big feast, no idea why this resonates so much with her 😂
There are only five emoticon reactions in Outlook and none of them are suitable for the most common thing which is to say a quick thank you. A thumbs up feels very informal! And I can’t really think of when I would use a heart in a work situation and not actually also send an email.
Ended up in Starbucks this morning why is my Americano so bubbly 😂
No responses from my Banjo app testers yet. No response is not good I think 😂
Banjo app is ready for testing, icon finally designed - now to see if people like it 😱
There is basically no other use case than humour!
Been disturbed by Google Reimagine today. Imagine the UX meeting about users... Our users are people who want to um lie and mislead others, more easily?
Watched God on Trial 2008
I also learnt the useful concept of schismogenesis, which is kind of like the anthropological equivalent of counterwill. Many cultures seemed to be predicated on something like pathological demand avoidance, consciously against restrictions to freedom or intergroup violence.
Interesting point at the end about how chiefs rose to power potentially via charity. By caring for the captured and lost, who grow into a force.
I basically feel unqualified to have an opinion, it was very dense on facts about different civilizations in a way that I found difficult to assimilate, and not coming to it with a deep knowledge of anthropology or archaeology, the revolutionariness of the ideas was over my head. Basic takehomes where a) the hobbes/rousseau conceptions of pre-agricultural humans are myths, and that humans held a variety of social structures, which implies creativity and freedom. b) our modern unequal and heirarchical society is not an inevitability from agriculture/technology/ scale.
Finished The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow
Week of staycation begins tomorrow. Planning visiting friends, playing music, reading. Need more music in my life! I'm being tempted by the idea of busking to see what its like, and also setting myself up as a music teacher for banjo/mandolin.
Treated myself to the Kenyan Peaberry from Pact as a staycation present and it's 😋, exactly the flavour profile I love. Ordered myself some distilled water to try and make my self the ultimate V60.