WeekNotes for 2024 Week 50: Reflections
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2024
Weeknotes for 2024 Week 48: Collaborating with/on AI, domain expertise as a frame, and the rise of bluesky
Weeknotes are where I share what I’m working on / thinking about this week and a few things to share without worrying too much about the ideas being fully...
Weeknotes for 2024 Week 47: Multimodality Pomodoro Fuckboy Workflow Automations
Weeknotes are where I share what I’m working on / thinking about this week and a few things to share without worrying too much about the ideas being fully...
Weeknotes for 2024 Week 46: One month left in the semester panic / / Pomodoro Fuckboy Rabbit Hole
Weeknotes are where I share what I’m working on / thinking about this week and a few things to share without worrying too much about the ideas being fully...
Weeknotes for 2024 Week 45: Plaintext in time of GenAI
Weeknotes are a habit I’m cultivating where I share what I’m working on or thinking about, primarily in my professional life without worrying too much abo...
CrosspostKnitting a Scarf to Visualize the Questions Asked in the Makerspace (Crosspost from TRU Library Makerspace Blog)
Note: this post is cross-posted to the TRU Library Makerspace Blog and the original was posted here: Knitting a Scarf to Visualize the Questions Asked in the...
WeekNotes for 2024 Week 39: Attention as Pedagogy
Weeknotes are a habit I’m cultivating where I share what I’m working on or thinking about, primarily in my professional life, without worrying too much about...
WeekNotes for 2024 Week 36: What is the problem we are trying to solve?
Weeknotes are a habit I'm cultivating where I share what I'm working on or thinking about, primarily in my professional life, without worrying too much about...
WeekNotes for 2024 Week 35: Priorities for a new academic year
Weeknotes are a habit I'm cultivating where I share what I'm working on or thinking about, primarily in my professional life, without worrying too much about...
WeekNotes for 2024 Week 34: Knitting Machines, Co-Learning Sessions, and Reconnecting with the Work
Weeknotes are a habit I'm cultivating where I share what I'm working on or thinking about, primarily in my professional life, without worrying too much about...
Adrian Tchaikovsky’s “The Expert System’s Champion”and LLMs as Perspective Simulacra Engines and/or Frankensteinian Sacks of Neural Meat
Like many, I’ve been playing with LLMs over the past two years, and my own understanding of these technologies continues to evolve the more I use them. There...
WeekNotes for 2024 Week 33 (2024-08-12): Getting back into the habit
Weeknotes are a habit I'm cultivating where I share what I'm working on or thinking about, primarily in my professional life, without worrying too much about...
WeekNotes for 2024 Week 19: The emotional impacts of working in a space built for change
Weeknotes are a habit I’m cultivating where I share writing (and some links) as a thinking-in-public process. The idea is to explore ideas I’m grappling with...
WeekNotes for 2024 Week 17: “I’m Okay, You’re Okay” Reports and Iridescent Circle of Clouds
Weeknotes are a habit I’m cultivating where I share writing (and some links) as a thinking-in-public process. The idea is to explore ideas I’m grappling with...
WeekNotes for 2024 Week 16: What I want from AI is an on-demand committee of cocaine-fuelled Franklins remixing and probing my ideas with me
_Weeknotes are a habit I'm cultivating where I share writing (and some links) as a thinking-in-public process. The idea is to explore ideas I'm grappling wit...
Weeknotes for 2024-06: February 5
Weeknotes are meant to be quick, off-the-cuff reflections on whats happening this week, with a focus on projects and how they are moving forward.
Weeknotes for 2024-01: January 1-7
_Weeknotes are meant to be quick, off-the-cuff reflections on whats happening this week, with a focus on projects and how they are moving forward._
2023
WeekNotes for Week 48
Writing this early on a Monday morning. It’s still dark outside but there’s no snow yet in Kamloops. That feels weird to me, but it’s also starting to feel n...
Three Challenges for Makerspace Users
I give a talk when classes and other groups visit the Makerspace that is meant to explain what we are, how we can be used, and hopefully makes them feel welc...
Letter to the Thompson Rivers University Senate about the Proposed Elimination of the Visual Arts Program (09/19/2023)
Letter-to-Senate-re-BRD-8-4-and-Visual-Arts-Sept-20-2023Download
Storytelling should be the primary frame for (more than just) makerspace outcomes
It matters what thoughts think thoughts. It matters what knowledges know knowledges. It matters what relations relate relations. It matters what worlds wo...
Weekly Reviews 3 and 4 - April 17 - 30, 2023
“I think the meaning of life is to let your heart be broken.” Stephen Levine quoted here
Weekly Review 2: April 10-16, 2023
Last week was the first British Columbia Library Conference I’ve attended since 2013, right after I graduated from the UBC iSchool and started my first profe...
Weekly Review 1: March 27-April 9, 2023
It’s Easter Sunday and I should be driving to Vancouver to spend two days with family but instead I’m at home on antibiotics. Two weeks ago I had two bridges...
Academic Librarianship in the Chthulucene
“Our task is to make trouble, to stir up potent response to devastating events, as well as to settle troubled waters and rebuild quiet places” (Haraway, 2...
Links/Sprouts February 19 - March 26, 2023
It’s spring here now and the valley is mostly free of snow. It’s shoulder season and the hills are still icy and the trails muddy. I can wear a light jacket ...
Links: Jan 17-Feb 18, 2023
I am going to try occasionally sharing a roundups of things I’ve been reading. I always enjoy the serendipity of skimming other people’s link roundups, and i...
Minimalist Making
Minimalist making is an idea I’m adapting from Danica Savonick’s concept of “Minimalist Digital Humanities” that builds on the idea of frugal innovation and ...
Levelling the Playing Field for Structured Bullshit: Using AI as a Tool for Refactoring Content (Making ChatGPT write my grant proposal)
The XYZ University Sustainability Initiative is a comprehensive project aimed at promoting environmental and economic sustainability on campus. We are see...
Academic Services as Theatre Productions
“The usual hero adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken, or who feels there is something lacking in the normal experience availab...
#PKM and the Ego Tunnel
Okay, fuck it. Let’s start weird. My first actual “let’s write every day and blog a lot of thoughts that are half-baked as a learning in public experiment” p...
Books I Read in 2022
This started out as a quick list of books I read in 2022. I have notes because I read almost everything on an ereader and highlight and all that gets auto du...