Category — Microblog Mondays

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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I love finding old emails when I’m searching for something, and this substack reminded me of the pure pleasure that comes from re-reading old thoughts. If you haven’t excavated your Gmail account recently, follow their instructions, search for a term or phrase, and see what pops up. It’s as good as the memories feature on Facebook for bringing you back to the moment.

P.S. Go down to section V in the substack for their recommendations/instructions for search.

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts connected to businesses or sponsored posts.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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A line in Austin Kleon’s newsletter spoke to me deeply because I’m halfway through a new writing project: “I am deep into writing at the moment and I keep repeating to myself: ‘It doesn’t matter if it’s good right now. It just needs to exist’.”

It led to a great quote from Bird by Bird, which I haven’t read in many years and probably should again.

It’s a good reminder that things are rarely great on the first try and that you should never compare your first attempt to someone’s fully edited finished product. This is true for all things in life.

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts connected to businesses or sponsored posts.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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I have a new life goal: Stay in an underwater hotel.

Traveler put out a list of underwater hotels. Most start above ground and then move underwater, or they’re really aquarium-view hotels (as in, your window looks into an aquarium). I’ve fallen in love with all of the options in the Maldives. The first one is probably my favourite.

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts connected to businesses or sponsored posts.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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I always click on life advice, figuring that it costs me 30 seconds to skim the list to see if anything jumps out, and this list grabbed me at the first point: “Don’t go to every fight you’re invited to.” Let’s just say that I saw the list on the perfect day to take that advice and use it.

While I’ll never aim to wake up before sunrise on a daily basis, I took #13 and #14 to heart.

What appealed to you on the list?

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts connected to businesses or sponsored posts.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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Neil Kramer always makes me think. He recently had a public Facebook post about the power of words vs. pictures. He writes:

People never get offended by my photos, but if I use the wrong word or phrase, people go crazy. This is nothing surprising. If I hold up a photo of a fire in a crowded theater, no one will care. But if I yell “fire, all hell breaks loose. Words have the power.

It made me think about how I’ve certainly been emotionally impacted by an image shared in someone’s feed, but I’ve never unfollowed someone on social media due to an image. Words, yes, I remove people from my feed due to their words, but not because they posted a particular picture. Neil’s point is larger: we stop taking in the information in the image when we focus on accompanying words because the words are more powerful than the image.

It may not hold true in every case, but in a general sense, it’s interesting to consider.

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts connected to businesses or sponsored posts.