Friday reading

Some interesting reading for you today:

Oliver Burkeman’s Eight Secrets to a (Fairly) Fulfilled Life
One theory about the relationship between specialization and innovation
I (re)discovered Lara Hogan’s excellent post about building a Voltron
Some crafting wisdom on the humble function

An excellent classic:

And in case you hadn’t seen it, much of California is on fire. For example:

Due to unprecedented and historic fire conditions throughout the state, the USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region is announcing a temporary closure of an additional ten National Forests, eighteen National Forests in California are now closed effective at 5:00 pm 9/09/20. pic.twitter.com/stiJZVbgLo
— EldoradoNF (@EldoradoNF) September 9, 2020

Extremely dense & tall smoke plumes from numerous large wildfires, some of which have been generating nocturnal pyrocumulunimbus clouds ("fire thunderstorms"), are almost completely blocking out the sun across some portions of Northern California this morning. #CAwx #CAfire pic.twitter.com/y9evl4u0eq
— Daniel Swain (@Weather_West) September 9, 2020

Have a great weekend and stay healthy.

Published by Dave Paola