But when a direction is chosen freely and followed wholeheartedly, it may seem that all things further the going.

How does meditation improve mental health? The answer may lie not in a single pathway, but in coordinated changes across the brain and body.

There is a lot of hype around neurofeedback for meditation. Does it work? Neurofeedback is a tool for real-time monitoring and modulation of mental states using feedback from one's own neural activity.

Experimenting with new multi-layer features for Lattelier

Well it's over variety.com/2026/digital...

Netflix in Talks to Buy Letterboxd: Report

Letterboxd has reportedly held exploratory sales talks with Netflix, Paramount, Sony Pictures and other parties.

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Rockstar Games website in 2000

listening to new, dancier sounds by Gigi Masin open.spotify.com/track/5DKqHA...

Golden

Gigi Masin · Movement · Song · 2026

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bold, confident storytelling coming out of my home state, Kerala, in India. letterboxd.com/film/balan-t...

Balan - The Boy (2026)

A teenage boy searches for his missing mother following a turbulent childhood and her subsequent disappearance, exploring his search for closure and the truth about his past.

letterboxd.com

New video on Interface Studies: what happens when software borrows a word from a different world and what makes an interface “social”? youtu.be/j7xidb5fK8c?...

When Software Took the Word 'Social'

YouTube video by Interface Studies

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sketch of a launcher for paper-like devices I was making last year. Key concepts: - day planner as home screen, - call with AI for a daily planning ritual + support on activity tracking & form filling - routines, tasks and projects are associated with apps

Bodily awareness during advanced meditation: what happens and how should we study it? Announcing our new preprint: "Bodily Awareness in Advanced Meditation: A Three-Level Model of Interoceptive, Schematic, and Pacificatory Changes," now available on PsyArXiv. ⤵️

for the best part of this year, I've been speaking to former Maxis developers to put together this: a near-6000 word oral history of Spore 🦠 www.designroom.site/spore-an-ora...

Spore: An oral history

A wild bet in development for the better part of a decade, Spore reached for the stars — and, at times, got there. We recently spoke to eight team members, including chief designer Will Wright, to loo...

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Is the Microsoft Office Ribbon causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since Office 2007 was introduced nearly two decades ago.

Favorite new YouTube channel alternates between validating and criticizing my best ideas. On software as place: m.youtube.com/watch?v=tBE2...

What Makes Software a "Place"?

YouTube video by Interface Studies

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Collecting diagrams to sensemake relationships, different relationship patterns and fields with @clinamenic.com What’s been useful to you? are.na/block/46566804

Has anyone tried to migrate or sync their blocks and channels from are.na to @semble.so ?

@clinamenic.com uses obsidian as life OS. It runs everything from his journal, finances and website, to an extensive zettlekasten, all interlinked, with a patchwork of custom plugins that keep the system running smoothly. there will be many things to learn and discover here.

clinamenic@clinamenic.com · 4mo ago

Now piloting Second Brain as a Service! If anyone wants coaching/configuration for setting up Obsidian for journaling, publishing, portfolio, recipes, archiving, zettelkasten, etc, this might be for you. www.clinamenic.com/services/Sec...

Just launched the paid tier of my substack, Solo Salon, for instructional content on second brains and personal knowledge management! This first one details some of the initial challenges of creating a multi-modal framework for second brains. solosalon.substack.com/p/notes-on-e...

Notes on Experimental Zettelkasten Methodology

Some coverage of the various challenges faced in the construction of a bespoke multi-purpose zettelkasten.

solosalon.substack.com

mindbody, with material

nervous system as bonsai tree virtue as ties that bend us into shapes that we can eventually let go of, because we can hold our own shape

time passing in pond

amidst spaces for work and spaces for distraction, enter a space for contemplation

What does it mean to “grow the self” to you? What frameworks come to mind? An invitation to add them here www.are.na/andre-vacha/...

grow the Self | Are.na

are.na

account cards with a sense of physicality from Horizon cc @playbalatro.com

new practice of sketching app concepts through state machines, which can then translate to be translated to linear flows. helps me zoom out and see the whole system and the experience we derive from it

desktop magnet poetry

thoughts are just ripples on the surface of consciousness

less "tools to use" and more "places to be"

life is peaceful. true friends, hot girlfriend, a diminishing sense of self

Core experience Horizon (wip @bsky.app client by @curlprojects.bsky.social ) is designed to support is "Discovery", which is a bit of a loaded term.