I like this exercise from @gordon.bsky.social. Some excerpts:

Networks generate exponentials.

Broadcast: standardized | Network: personalized

Broadcast: manufactured consensus | Network: runaway amplification

Some things that don’t exist in a network society: facts, shared truth.

Just had the onboarding call and tech check for #FediForum which I will be attending for 2 days starting tomorrow. It is an unconference that is held entirely online. I have followed it for a couple of years but this is my first time attending.

fediforum.org

After a month of “working” from Tokyo and Seattle… I am back to my normal schedule this morning. First day working from the new home office! 🎉

Goosing the system — Behind the scenes at the first ATmosphereConf

As user 87 on Bluesky, I have been around the AT Protocol ecosystem — the ATmosphere — for a while. My comrade Boris Mann (@bmann.ca) started https://atprotocol.dev to serve as a place to do tech talks with developers, just like we used to do for Fission before (and Causal Islands before that and TFTRocks before that… and… 😊). When Boris was thinking of starting the first community conference for atproto devs back in early December 2024, he asked if I was in… of course!

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Dinner time! 🥘 😋

Assortment of Indian foods including: clay pot lamb biryani, clay pot veg biryani, goat curry, chicken curry, assorted pakora and samosa, and tandoori chicken wings

Zulip finally replaced Slack in my iPhone dock. And considering the ad and IPO rumblings, it may replace Discord someday soon.

An iOS dock showing 4 apps: Discord, Zulip, Messages, and Signal

Last day of spring break: Daddy/Daughter Day at Vancouver Aquarium

all pics 📸: flic.kr/s/aHBqjC7…

Large jelly fish floating in watertwo walruses on a dock floating in the middle of wateran axlotlBlack tipped reef sharks

Just arrived! 🎲🧝‍♀️⚔️🪄 Looking forward to running this

The One Ring TTRPG Starter Set, a box with rules and adventure books, dice, and maps

Finally completed a solid year without a missed day. Not a calendar year, but I’ll take it! 🧘

Insight timer screenshot showing 365 consecutive days of meditation.

“Don’t call it a Bluesky conference.”

🎯🎯🎯

@sarahp.bsky.social covers #ATmosphereConf in @techcrunch.com showing how this is COMMUNITY work, and how we want to make a difference.

Post conference rooftop drinks in Seattle 🥃

(Check out the Space Needle, and that amazing hot chocolate)

Chad selfie on a rooftop at night pointing at the Seattle Space NeedleHot chocolate with a skewer of two roasted marshmallows resting on topNight cityscape of Seattle

Well, everything is in the new house (still a giant mess) but the internet is working and we have clean sheets, so I guess we can call that a successful day of moving. 12 times in the last 5 years. 😮‍💨 But this time to our very own (and first!) home. (Love my new home office btw! 😻)

🍕 and ☕

Breakfast of champions 🏆

Started listening to Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman 📚 Needed something light for moving house tasks, and this was recommended by a DnD buddy.

Safely hauled our last possessions from Kelowna over the snowy Coquihalla pass to Surrey. We had them stored in my brother’s basement since 2022, when we suddenly moved to Kyoto to take care of my father-in-law. Now it’s all safely in the new house. By end of next week we will be fully moved in.

Snowy and misty mountains alongside a highwayFrom the side window is a mountain and trees covered in snowA 15’ UHaul moving van parked in Hope, at the bottom of the mountain pass. Mountains in the background, but grass is green here.

Currently reading: History for Tomorrow by Roman Krznaric 📚

I first heard Roman on Everyday Anarchism talking about Colin Ward and then again on Upstream. I look forward to listening to it as I pack up and haul our last stuff from Kelowna to the new house in Surrey.

Rainy day… back at the airport. This time to Kelowna for the weekend. Picking up the last of our stuff left there in 2022 and hauling it to the coast to move in to the new house next week.

Suddenly Tokyo

It had been years since I had been to Shinjuku, at least, around the JR Station. It was a lot dirtier than I remember, but more than 25 years had past. It was a whirlwind trip this time to Japan, all for an important meeting for a client that asked me to come and help out. Except for taking my client to Ginza by taxi for some shopping, I stayed put in Shinjuku.

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Really should have brought my toque to #snokyo

Good day of walking around Shinjuku #Tokyo #Japan

The Mode Gakuen building Skyscrapers as the sun begins to setPano of Shinjuku station and all the construction going on at night Zoom shot down a Shinjuku street as the Chuo train crosses a train bridge, behind which are many lit up signs