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I thought I was over my work hump, but I was mistaken, and the piles of ebooks are continuing for a few more weeks. I have ideas for making them more manageable in the future, partly by reworking my ebook production procedure and partly by reworking certain features of our ebook production tools. But I can’t really do that till I’m out from under these piles, so I’ll have to be patient. The workload does interfere a bit with my projects, but maybe I can use it as an opportunity to tighten up my time management.<\/p>\n
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I listened to some Gestalt psychology articles, but they were only marginally helpful for my current project on infographic design, so I didn’t feel too bad that I didn’t get around to taking notes. I’ve moved on to the main event, working through large parts of Tamara Munzner’s Visualization Analysis and Design<\/em>. Since work has been taking up project time and I haven’t been managing my time well anyway, I’m going to give myself another month on this project, because this one is important and I don’t want to wait several more months to have truly usable results.<\/p>\n \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n I found Dale Carrico<\/a>, a critic of some of the futurists I follow, which makes me happy, because I learn a lot from watching opposing ideas clash. Here’s an index of his blog posts<\/a> on ideas and figures in the “superlative futurology” camp. It’ll take me a while to get through all that, especially since he writes in such a dense, academic style, but if you want a peek at his views in a more conversational style, here’s a video of his interview<\/a> on radio show The Zero Hour<\/em>.<\/p>\n \ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\n I’ve been looking for a new music genre to listen to, and I’ve landed on a mix of lo-fi chillhop and synthwave\/chillwave. Lo-fi is very popular right now, especially this video<\/a>, and here’s an interesting article on its history and future<\/a>. Here’s a chillwave playlist on YouTube<\/a> I’ve been listening to, and here’s another one on Spotify<\/a>. Driving with chillwave makes me want to add colored lights to the inside of my car so I can feel like I’m living in the retrofuture (seriously!), and I might install something like these AUXITO LED strips (demo video<\/a>), if it’s legal in Illinois, though really I’d want a setup that gives me multiple colors at once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Work \ud83d\ude44 I thought I was over my work hump, but I was mistaken, and the piles of ebooks are continuing for a few more weeks. I have ideas for making them more manageable in the future, partly by reworking … Continue reading Futurism<\/h2>\n
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