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need is felt in it's absence

2024-03-11

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I've been away from my laptop, it's been nice. The rooms at the last place were good, but I didn't have a good desk or place to sit and write (possibly didn't want one). It was a really relaxing few days, slowly recovering from food poisoning and getting excited about climbing again. A lot of time spent in the bouldering cave, got footage of me finishing the v2 I was struggling with. I did a lot of reading, it was nice.

it was nice

I'll come back to the reading, but I want to note that I'm at a turning point of the trip. Yesterday I took the ferry to Phuket and stayed there for a night. I walked around looking at a market, bought some bootleg tees, got a massage, and ate waaayyyy to much indian food. I was waddling around. Then it was late and I needed to sleep for an early morning flight, that I might have missed still by not waking up early enough and getting ready fast enough. Would be nice to be a little speedier in how I get ready. That's a thought for another time. I'm in Bangkok now, staying in a friend's apartment. This is the turning point. It is time for a reflection upon the reflection.

reflection upon the reflection

I felt incredibly relaxed in Tonsai, my ambitions blew away some what. I thought a lot about "small" though. In the outset of this trip I planned to make it into a browser based text tool. I've thought a lot about that. It's not the right tool for the job. I'm not even sure if a tool is necessary. I think the best way to develop the small project wringer is to keep using it. It is a list of questions. I can add to them, refine them, explain them. It's not enough for a working project flow though. I need the place where the questions are answered, and I think this needs to be detached from the small project wringer. Maybe this is how they got the MDM method? I've tried fruitlessly to use it in the past, but I believe the tool only works well when the need is felt in it's absence.

I've been reading Tools for Conviviality

Tools foster conviviality to the extent to which they can be easily used, by anybody, as often or as seldom as desired, for the accomplishment of a purpose chosen by the user. The use of such tools by one person does not restrain another from using them equally. They do not require previous certification of the user. Their existence does not impose any obligation to use them. They allow the user to express his meaning in action.”

and I've been reading The Algorythmic Beauty of Plants, a book that I've already - before reading it - stolen quotes from:

The idea of the form implicitly contains also the history of such a form. - F. Hall´e, R. A. A. Oldeman, and P. B. Tomlinson. Tropical trees and forests: An architectural analysis. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1978

This has brought me to also thinking about celular automata. I watched a video about Wolfram's elementary celular automata. I can't stand the way the host presents things but it's a good video none the less.

All good things to think about going forwards.

listening to

Staying here by Astrid Sonne

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