Kannik
@kannik.bsky.social
A polymath lynx who finds the world fascinating and lives in possibility.
#Mindfulness Moment: Quoting a great set of posts by Artemis on Mastodon (I couldn't find if they had a bsky) that starts with a powerful punch and doesn't let up: lynxthoughts.com/2026/08/11/p...
Philosophy Tuesday
“It’s not that you can’t understand, love, trust, & accept yourself. It’s that abusers & oppressors on all levels want to avoid that outcome at all costs. Self-love …
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#Architecture Moment: Every now and then there's a building that just grabs me for reasons that, at least at first, isn't entirely clear. :) Also, this is a great example of a "simple" building that shows how it still can be great design! lynxthoughts.com/2026/08/10/a...
Architecture Monday
Oh wow, this building has a certain compelling je ne sais quoi for me… or perhaps I should say un cierto no sé qué, given it’s in Spain. It’s a new community hall that manages it…
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After about a year and a half since I updated the first example for my Aurora RPG Engine, I'm excited to release the next one! Example B is geared towards narrative playstyles and rich storylines: drive.google.com/file/d/1psDg... #ttrpg
#Mindfulness Moment: This phrase came to me in one of those flashes of randomness, but it landed true and with a dose of cosmic laughter of recognition, so I had to dive into it. :) lynxthoughts.com/2026/08/04/p...
Philosophy Tuesday
I’m sure you’ve all heard of the classic horror trope of, “The call is coming from inside the house.” And even if you’re not familiar with it from its horror roots, at least you’ve likely heard it…
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#Mindfulness Moment: I'm still floored by that episode of What Now that featured Brené Brown. But atop all the illuminating things that came up, the type of conversation they were having on the show also really stuck out for me. Because it was a true exchange: lynxthoughts.com/2026/07/28/p...
Philosophy Tuesday
There’s more great stuff in the What Now with Trevor Noah episode with Brené Brown that I touched on last week, but what also got me about it was the kind of conversation it was. Because it was tha…
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#Architecture Moment: I love snow. So houses that embrace the snowy landscape, both by burring itself into it and also framing it as the main feature in every room? Yeah, I dig it. (Pun most certainly intended :) lynxthoughts.com/2026/07/27/a...
Architecture Monday
One of the current things I miss about my current locale is the snow. Living in snow. The embrace of snow. The celebration of it. Tonight’s house has a simplicity to it in its concept and…
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#Mindfulness Moment: Brené Brown was on Trevor Noah's podcast & it was 2h of absolutely amazing/insightful conversation. I'll likely end up posting a bunch about it. To start: a powerful one on the false connection schadenfreude gives us in the face of loneliness: lynxthoughts.com/2026/07/21/p...
Philosophy Tuesday
One of the fastest neuro-hacks to a feeling of belonging is collective schadenfreude. We are going to connect mutually in watching this person fail and fall. And it gives us all kinds of goosebumps…
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#Architecture Moment: Another neat school, with both smooth detailing and a rough and tumble vibe, and green design to boot. :) lynxthoughts.com/2026/07/20/a...
Architecture Monday
Another nice school tonight, awash in wood and windows and waves (in both the roof shape and the solar panels that adorn it). Designed as three wings, two clad in wood and one clad in smooth white …
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#Mindfulness Moment: Sometimes, it isn't only that a/the scapegoat isn't to blame, but that it's actually a smokegoat As in, a smoke bomb lobbed by the real culprit, trying to ninja their way out of our gaze & scrutiny If we fall for it, not only do we get stuck in the suck, but we get _used_
#Architecture Moment: Some snow in July! :) A lovely funicular station in Switzerland: lynxthoughts.com/2026/07/13/a...
Architecture Monday
Love this straightforward funicular station in the Swiss alps! A simple gable from the front, but with a large prominence in back that follow the angled path of the train into the station that crea…
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I watched Citizen Vigilante thinking I would do a quick, 2nd channel review, but the movie was so much stranger than I thought that I just had to make a proper video about it. You can watch it now on Nebula, including an exclusive 16-minute postscript: nebula.tv/videos/lsoo-...
Like Stories of Old — I Watched MAGA's Favorite Movie
The far right has a new favorite movie, and I watched it so that you don't have to.
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#Mindfulness Moment: I come back to the distinction between thoughting & "actual" thinking time & time again...because it's such a powerful & useful distinction (& that takes, for me at least, lots of mindfulness to keep in practice). So here's another one tonight! lynxthoughts.com/2026/07/07/p...
Philosophy Tuesday
“You are allowed to think about the worst possible scenario. But you got to go out there and do something about it.” — Jalen Brunson In that great way of separating out our though…
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#Architecture Moment: When I was a wee architect, I saw a lecture by the founder of this young firm... that had just won the competition for the Library of Alexandria. (!) But it's this project that really stuck with me & more so its story of craft & collaboration: lynxthoughts.com/2026/07/06/a...
Architecture Monday
Back in the earliest of the aughts, architecture lectures were held up in SF at the Yerba Buena theatre. One of the first (perhaps even the first) I went to was by a firm I hadn’t heard of b…
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#Mindfulness Moment: On incentives, and not just the monetary ones... social, attention, and more. lynxthoughts.com/2026/06/30/p...
Philosophy Tuesday
“Show me the incentive and I’ll show you the outcome.” — Charlie Munger While clearly expressed as an absolute for literary effect, I think there’s a lot there as an excellent window an…
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#Architecture Moment: Modernist Classic from Tokyo this evening, a spot I didn't visit when I visited but it's still on my list. :) lynxthoughts.com/2026/06/29/a...
Architecture Monday
This one is a bit of a classic, having been built in the 60s. And it has a certain showmanship that may rub some the wrong way, but I am definitively a fan of it when it’s deployed well! A c…
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#Mindfulness Moment: Just working it out as I typed this time... musing about those times where we make a poor-outcome choice and yet somehow are fine about it. Maybe it's because we are satisfied with the process that lead us to that choice? Hmmm.... lynxthoughts.com/2026/06/23/p...
Philosophy Tuesday
This may seem like an odd one… but there’s this interesting thing that I bet many of us have experienced where we made some poor-outcome choice and yet somehow are at peace or at least …
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#Architecture Moment: I love bold buildings. I also love subtle buildings that blend ever so perfectly into their milieu, here being a town hugging a verdant hillside. :) lynxthoughts.com/2026/06/22/a...
Architecture Monday
What I really appreciate about this new music/performance hall is how well it achieves its aim to become a part of the landscape. Already low slung and stepping down and becoming an amphitheatre n…
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As I work on my next release for it, here's an online die roller for my Aurora RPG Engine! Coded up by a friend, it's fully armed & operational, with 1/2 die increments, auto calculation of Margin of Success or Failure, and the option to add dice after a roll. #ttrpg cogspace.github.io/aurolla/
#Mindfulness Moment: “Don’t think about making art just get it done. Let everyone else decide whether it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they’re deciding, *make even more art.*” —Andy Warhol
#Architecture Moment: An elongated inverted boat as part of a public garden leading to a pier may not be the most "original" of concepts, but absolutely can be a delightful space and gift for the community. Arts, sports, crafts, and just playing around. :) lynxthoughts.com/2026/06/15/a...
Architecture Monday
Check out this cool pavilion that’s part of a public park/garden, with space for gathering, performances, craft vending, sports, and just general playing around. Like an inverted boat hull, i…
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#Mindfulness Moment: It's all about escalators! Well, as a metaphor, for our socialization and inherited contexts and how they often lead us to places that we don't intend, don't expect, don't need, and/or, especially, we don't want. lynxthoughts.com/2026/06/09/p...
Philosophy Tuesday
Cultural tropes and socialization – aka our inherited views and contexts about what’s right and about how things are the way they just are – aka “Some of the thoughts you have inside your head aren…
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#Architecture Moment: Delightful little rugged cabins? Yes please. :) lynxthoughts.com/2026/06/08/a...
Architecture Monday
As I’ve noted before, I’m not immune to sweet and rugged little cabins. And here are a trio of them! All done by the same firm, designed over time on three different remote sites acro…
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#Mindfulness Moment: Saw this and it’s too cute not to share… about some ABCs to live into! meow.social/@Bwee/116662... (I don't think they have a bsky, but if they do, apologies, I'll update!)
🩵 Bwee the Fluffdragon 🩵 (@Bwee@meow.social)
Remember your ABCs!!! ~~~ Always Be Cute! Deeply Embrace Friendship. Give Hugs Immediately. Just Keep Loving. Maintain Neverending Optimism. Pursue Quirky Recreation. Show Tender Understanding...
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#Architecture Moment: Wine in a box! No, not quite right... it's a winery as a box! :) lynxthoughts.com/2026/06/01/a...
Architecture Monday
I’m going to guess that this design won’t quite be everyone’s… cup of tea? Crud, mixed metaphors here, for this is a winery. And as a Corten weathering steel box, it might…
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#Mindfulness Moment: Starts w/ AI but goes beyond into all desperate bedazzlement attempting to vacuum our agency & wealth, and how while technology can be pretty damn amazing (Apollo and Artemis, forex), it isn't magic for many of our (self-inflicted) ills: lynxthoughts.com/2026/05/26/p...
Philosophy Tuesday
It is not a stretch to imagine that it will be easier for AI to develop a new cancer drug than it will be at ensuring that those who need that drug will actually be able to get it. Not that a new c…
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#Architecture Monday: Pools in the trees. Well, one pool in the trees, the other diving down 3 stories... which is why the other pool is in the trees. Constraints once again pushing something to become absolutely grand. :) lynxthoughts.com/2026/05/25/a...
Architecture Monday
This “pool in the trees” is amazing. A huge wide opening that frames the trees in a shed-like upper story with light peeking through its slat wall. Beautiful. But the WHY it’s …
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For all the Battletech I'm not actually currently playing (but hey, live into the future you want, right? :) I made myself a couple of big boxes of doom and snagged some movement dice cubes, woo!
