Remember when Substack was going to displace Medium, who had lost their way by going overboard on signup walls and conversion widgets over an uninterrupted reading experience? Gravity comes for us all I guess. At least the UBO element zapper still makes quick work of that. 

I got these mini Kraft envelopes from Muji, which are 1/3rd of the size of a regular letter envelope. Turns out that they're the perfect size to fit a 16-page zine cut from a double-sided printed sheet of paper. Pretty cool!

Tommy Wiseau's screenplay in The Room makes sense if you think of it like an AI hallucination of a foreigner's idea of America. 

Zine writing, expectations: I try not to repeat myself and offer original writing in every section.

Zine writing, reality: I  end up repeating myself occasionally, but in ways I didn't expect, like using the same phrase or descriptor in more than one record review because they were written months apart, and it seemed like a good turn of phrase before too.

#idea - A timestamped mood tracker device...press/hold a button to record an audio note, that gets transcribed to text. Review your thoughts later and figure out when you had that thought, what you were doing when you had it, and whether it's something to let go or to follow up on later. Part of the idea comes from Markor, which is a minimal text editor that has a single button shortcut for timestamps. The hardware for this could come in the form of a customized Lily T-Deck:

Some feedback for Simplemind, the mind-mapping tool I've been using since 2020:

1. KB Shortcut for Linking - something like OPT + K for linking to a URL or mindmap - multiple mouse clicks in the UI are needed to accomplish this currently
2. Show All Backlinks - Inserting a link to Mindmap B somewhere inside a node in Mindmap A is doable. What would be great is if Mindmap B kept an index of which mindmaps linked to it. 
3. Thumbnail Generation - When a mindmap block has an anchor link to another  mindmap, generate a thumbnail for that link
4. Custom Images as Icons - Allow custom images to be imported as icons, rather than restricting it to just the stock list. I tried using "Image as Icon" option on import, it didn't work
5. Smooth Zoom In/Out - Zoom In/Zoom out are currently stepped, and not smooth. This would be a nice QOL improvement, as most infinite canvas apps use a smooth zoom
6. Import PDF Highlights - Currently, the built-in PDF import tool only imports Headings. MacOS apps like Skim can instantly export all highlighted portions of the PDF, making it far more useful for importing to a mindmap