Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
Thinking and Learning In Public
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- 3,175 from 18 Oct 2020 to 31 Oct 2026
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October 2026
- Weeknotes: Oct. 24-30, 2026
- Fall color at Seattle’s Japanese Garden
- Pine pruning inspiration from Seattle’s Japanese Garden
- Weeknotes: Oct. 17-23, 2026
- Developing a nonfiction book concept
- Finding invisible barriers to new habits
- Interrogating influences in sci-fi novels
- Notes from Living Rooms
- Thoughts from HWC Writing October 2026
- Read The Exquisite Torment of Loving Your Enemy
- Read Daggerbound
- Weeknotes: Oct. 10-16, 2026
- Read The Great Derangement
- Read Lolly Willowes
- Read The Language of Liars
- What makes me pick up a book?
- Read There Is No Antimemetics Division
- Read On Fairy-Stories
- Weeknotes: Oct. 3-9, 2026
- Notes from The Staff Designer
- Wonders of Web Weaving podcast annotated transcript
- Notes from The Weird and the Eerie
- Notes from Surfaces and Essences
- Weeknotes: Sept. 26 – Oct. 2, 2026
- Stage one: acquiring my word list
- Healthcare Theory of Everything?
September 2026
- Adopting new words
- Read The Last Lady B
- Read Haven
- Read Stay for a Spell
- Read Double Take
- Read Blood Slumber
- Learning scripting by scraping my own website
- Weeknotes: Sept. 19-25, 2026
- Read The Art of Relevance
- Read The New Aesthetics of Deculturation
- Weeknotes: Sept. 12-18, 2026
- Designs from Bauhaus, Modernism & the Illustrated Book
- Photos from the end-of-summer garden
- Two and a half years without a gallbladder
- Legibility in work
- Notes from The Arts of Action
- Read Small Things Like These
- Read Sea of Charms
- Read Exiles on Earth
- Weeknotes: Sept. 5-11, 2026
- Read Storytelling with Data Before and After
- Working less: decoupling self worth from paid labor (part 9)
- Read How Experts Differ from Novices
- I bought retinol and I feel weird about it
- Weeknotes: Aug. 28 – Sept. 4, 2026
- Distinguishing human readers from bot traffic with server-side stats
- The betrayal of perceived allies
- Formatting as courtesy to the reader
August 2026
- My emergency food supply is extra normal food
- I asked my city about their street cameras
- Weeknotes: Aug. 22-28, 2026
- What I read online today: Aug. 26, 2026
- What I read online today: Aug. 25, 2026
- What I read online today: Aug. 24, 2026
- My book TBR system
- Weeknotes: Aug. 15-21, 2026
- Authenticating digital works without ‘detectors’
- Weeknotes: Aug. 8-14, 2026
- Postcards
- Does kitsch discard the “interesting”?
- Why I don’t do atomic notes
- Read Kitsch Life: Aesthetics of Misinformation
- Read All of Us Murderers
- Read The Wolf and His King
- Read The Brides of High Hill
- Read Startup Hell
- Read Villain
- Read Claimed by the Flame of Faery
- Notes from Green Light
- Weeknotes: Aug. 1-7, 2026
- Paddling out of the doldrums
- Notes from A Prehistory of the Cloud
- Being told to sit
- Weeknotes: July 25-31, 2026
July 2026
- Notes from Sincerity and Authenticity
- AI or not?
- Read Crash Course
- Cooking eggs in stainless steel
- Weeknotes: July 18-24, 2026
- Fantasy as a tool of justice
- Three ways to approach creative work
- Weeknotes: July 10-17, 2026
- Trip report: long weekend in Victoria B.C.
- Weeknotes: July 4-9, 2026
- In memory of Rhaedar (2012-2026)
- Weeknotes: June 27 – July 3, 2026
- Intersection Murals
June 2026
- Weeknotes: June 20-26, 2026
- Horror and Romance as mirror genres
- Weeknotes: June 13-19, 2026
- Notes from The Digital Sublime
- I don’t like prompts
- A future fable: how American tech workers went union
- Read What the Bees See
- Weeknotes: June 6-12, 2026
- To buy or not to buy: making our selves through our homes (Part 8)
- Read Since the Marquess Demands
- Read Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die
- Read Starhawke Rogue Series
- Read Nobody’s Baby
- Weeknotes: May 30 – June 5, 2026
- Mental defrag
- Read Color Pattern Texture
- Reimagining mobile
May 2026
- Imagining human-oriented online posts
- Weeknotes: May 23-29, 2026
- Thoughts on The Modern Myths
- Weeknotes: May 16-22, 2026
- Read The Grammar of Fantasy
- Read Wild: The Naturalistic Garden
- Women’s sun hats
- Weeknotes: May 9-15, 2026
- Bookshelves as mental constructs
- Read The Dark Lord’s Guide to Dating (and Other War Crimes)
- Read Claiming the Princess
- Read Never a Bride
- Read A Fellowship of Bakers & Magic
- Letting things build
- Digital aura reading list
- Read The Dialectics of Art
- Weeknotes: May 2-8, 2026
- Aura through the Cult of Self: opportunity creates authenticity
- Weaponized non-governance and political impotence
- Read The Ethics of Authenticity
- Weeknotes: April 25-May 1, 2026
April 2026
- Read STILL: The Art of Noticing
- Nostalgic for past futures
- Embedded ideologies
- Weeknotes: April 18-24, 2026
- Notes from Creating Identity
- Notes from How to Read a Book
- Recalibrating my reading for thinking
- Notes from Against Creativity
- Tidepooling in La Jolla (photos)
- Weeknotes: April 4-10 and 11-17, 2026
- An afternoon exploring Balboa Park gardens (photos)
- Trip log: Coast Starlight train from Seattle to Los Angeles
- Read This Will Be Interesting
- Read Star-Crossed Captive
- Notes from Technopoly
- Weeknotes: Mar. 28 – Apr. 3, 2026
- Personalized computing