Finding your joy, a mnml digest
Five links. Ten sentences or fewer. On finding your joy. Creative tourism. And reimagining what you already have, like it’s your first time.
The magic of a personal keyword system
For notes to be searchable, they need an afterlife. The key to creating an afterlife for my notes — which live in both the analog and digital worlds — is keywords. Keywords that I create when revisiting my notes hours or days later. Keywords I attach to portions of notes, rendering them searchable on my computer. Keywords, like bow ties, are cool.
Teaching and research produce hundreds of thousands of annotated documents. We can all use searchable coolness when trying to find what you’ve already noted amidst that ocean of scribbles.
We goin’ big for the first week of summer
My latest cohort of students is graduated. Grades are submitted. I’m feeling large and capable. Let’s party.
The substantial transition from the school year into the summer months calls for a similar transition into desk-friendly nibs.
A mnml Digest: Less can be more
Five links. Ten sentences or fewer. On intentional curation and the power of subtracting for finding what works best.