1. weeknotes
(my) history of
discussed WeekNotes the other day with Naty, and guesstimated that I first got into it 10 years ago. turns out it was only 7, which really goes to show how sped up life has become; everything these days seems to feel Really Long Ago—more so because Stuff Keeps Happening than because (as my dearly beloved young adult likes to remind me) I’m getting old (of course, the two go hand in hand 👶🏃♀️🧓)
I reread some of those early entries of mine that live on Web of Weeknotes (might get ‘em over here at some point); only I didn’t, because they were too long, averaging 15 mins a read 🤯
in 2021, I mused over on Substack:
I’ve tried Weeknotes over the years, but I kept finding it fuelled the focus on toxic productivity I’ve been working (that pun was unavoidable) to lessen, despite covering topics such as the Principle of Psychoprofessional Gravitation (safeguard your identity from becoming all work and no play) and negotiating activity/pace scaling.
with that insight in mind ⬇️
I’m so back
(maybe)
with guardrails
inspired largely by Naty’s dedicated RSS-feed, I’m giving it another go (with permission to discontinue as soon as I feel it’s not working for me). this time, I’m taking a Tim Ferris’ 5-Bullet Friday slash James Clear’s 3-2-1 Thursday approach (ref: antidote to perfectionism as procrastination).
2. indieweb
‘tis THE best week to inaugurate weekly reflections because redoing my website (the IndieWeb way) has been a loooong time coming. five months since I first decided to move my blog over to Quartz. seven months since I put together a godawful temporary site in five mins after losing my online home in a tragic WordPress fire.
it’s been the slowest action I haven’t taken (the most intense, too; inaction hurts the overactive psyche 🫨) but I levelled up on the soul growth and all that. nevertheless, happy elated to report that the Phoenix 🐦🔥 has risen from the ashes, and my procrastination over getting it exactly right 🙄 has made way for a happy acceptance of just so. we’re LIVE, people!
I wanted a way to house everything in one place (namely, a single domain), while serving different audiences the meal they’re there to consume
main site
built with Eleventy, I divided this into four sections, each with its own set of sub-categories and (mostly) static pages: work with me, explore my mind, now, and my social stream.
frequently updated
built with Quartz (published via Obsidian) are my blog and digital garden.
very happy with how things have turned out; while there’s a whole wishlist of tweaks left to work through, I’ve added Webmentions (🏆) and RSS feeds, which is my cue to rest easy and celebrate the win! (shoutout to James for his awesome ‘calm web’ web-based feed reader, Artemis.)
3. digital garden
I’ve 14,000+ markdown notes on Obsidian. publishing even a percentage of them on my newly-created public garden promises to be a herculean task that requires the divine helping hand of the goddess of pacing 🧚♀️
I’m aiming to go about it the Rome wasn’t built in a day-way. my selection approach (work with the garage door open) mimics how I engage with my PKM generally: publish imperfectly, before it’s “ready” (wabi-sabi them thoughts, baby!)
4. culture
library
I’m hosting this month’s IndieWeb Book Club (we’re reading Becky Chambers’ hopepunk novella, A Psalm for the Wild-Built), and loved the first review by V.H. Belvadi: Literary hugs - Do you have milk and optimism with your tea?; especially since it got me to take a break from my Philip K. Dick (dystopian) marathon long enough to start reading this happy lil’ work of hope myself!
screen
went to see Digger, which I LOVED1 as might you; as per a rather surprisingly scathing takedown by The Guardian, “…people who might well have been keen to see Digger if they’d known what it really was: an ambitious, meta-textual liberal satire that seeks to address collective culpability for ecological collapse. Unfortunately all of the promotion for the film has sought to suppress this – in part because explaining how necessitates revealing a key plot spoiler.” (review-adjacent thoughts over at reality is a box office flop), and The Social Reckoning, which I didn’t.
Meta being bad news is old news2 surprisingly, not for everyone; the better reviews seem to come from people who are exposed to these exposés for the first time , yet the film’s coverage of whistleblower Frances Haugen’s 2021 testimony3 see her testimony to the US Senate; followed in 2026 by a warning, in an interview with EL PAÍS, that “we may be worse off today than when I leaked the Facebook documents.” , alongside Jeff Horwitz’s reporting for the WSJ’s The Facebook Files4 Wall Street Journal: “Facebook Inc. knows, in acute detail, that its platforms are riddled with flaws that cause harm, often in ways only the company fully understands. That is the central finding of a Wall Street Journal series, based on a review of internal Facebook documents, including research reports, online employee discussions and drafts of presentations to senior management.” (based on the 2021 Facebook Leak5 2021 Facebook Leak ) on the extent of Facebook and Instagram’s harm against minors, shed new light on this even for me (a die-hard professional hater).
yet the film’s execution was lacklustre and this could’ve—should’ve—been a documentary; the only benefit of it on the big screen is being seen by people who don’t watch documentaries at home 🤷♀️ definitely worth a watch, if only to remind yourself why to avoid That Company like the plague.
5. my world
seven months ago, we exchanged our fast-paced life in the capital’s financial district for a lakeside slice of seaside paradise. our unpacking rhythm’s adjusted accordingly; we still have a basement full of boxes begging to be unpacked. while it goes to show just how much you Don’t Need Stuff, every so often we have a lil’ ‘shopping spree’ where, instead of shopping online, we simply hunt for it down below.
this week, we added Govee RGB LED light strips to the sunken ceiling in the lounge to match the many lamps about the room and, ever since, have enjoyed making colour magic after sunset. we definitely have a thing for light around here! next step (at some point—because that’s the extent of our forward-planning these days): we’ll add also more solar lights to the garden… we’re having major neighbour’s garden-envy.
for my final IndieWeb magic trick of the week, I’ll leave you with a pic of yesterday’s sunset, as posted to my newly birthed anti-social social stream via Obsidian, a publishing process I’m especially pleased with :))
thanks for recapping a few smidgens of the week with me! 🗓️
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footnotes
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as might you; as per a rather surprisingly scathing takedown by The Guardian, “…people who might well have been keen to see Digger if they’d known what it really was: an ambitious, meta-textual liberal satire that seeks to address collective culpability for ecological collapse. Unfortunately all of the promotion for the film has sought to suppress this – in part because explaining how necessitates revealing a key plot spoiler.” ↩
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surprisingly, not for everyone; the better reviews seem to come from people who are exposed to these exposés for the first time ↩
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see her testimony to the US Senate; followed in 2026 by a warning, in an interview with EL PAÍS, that “we may be worse off today than when I leaked the Facebook documents.” ↩
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Wall Street Journal: “Facebook Inc. knows, in acute detail, that its platforms are riddled with flaws that cause harm, often in ways only the company fully understands. That is the central finding of a Wall Street Journal series, based on a review of internal Facebook documents, including research reports, online employee discussions and drafts of presentations to senior management.” ↩