Apr 18, 2026 from Toni Notes When does a system become theater? A system becomes theater when dashboards, rituals, and workflow layers make the work look handled without making decisions, recovery, or ownership clearer.
Apr 17, 2026 from The Emu Café Social New Victor V. Gurbo Podcast Interview My good friend Victor V. Gurbo (who has written some articles for NLJ) was interviewed by Charles Zona for an episode of Seeing Them Live With Charles Zona. I read the interview transcript, but you...
Apr 17, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-17-26 Today is Friday. That means it is time for our last Pook-Emu Bee link collection of the week (Saturday’s links come in the Newsletter Leaf Journal). 1. Gemini adds personalized AI image generation ...
Apr 17, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Spring Season 2026 at The New Leaf Journal The 2026 spring season theme at The New Leaf Journal is spring cleaning. Admittedly not the most creative, but summer 2026 will be big.
Apr 17, 2026 from Noahie's Blog The Bottle Today's post is a submission to the IndieWeb Carnival, a monthly event where folks on the IndieWeb write a blog post dedicated to a theme hosted by one of the members. This month's theme is "Advent...
Apr 16, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Yellow-Capped Passover Coca Cola I never paid much attention to the color of caps on bottles of Coca Cola. In fact, I do not think I bought a bottle of Coca Cola in almost two years. But thanks to a 2014 article in Food & Wine, I ...
Apr 16, 2026 from The Emu Café Social On Vertical vs Horizontal Tab Hot Takes Manuel Moreale published a blog post on the vertical vs horizontal tabs debate. But instead of choosing a side in what is ultimately an inconsequential debate, he made the case for nuance, or askin...
Apr 16, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-16-26 Today marks the 1957th anniversary of the death-by-suicide of the short-reigning Roman Emperor, Otho. I note this because my longest NLJ article, clocking it at more than 18,000 words, is about Oth...
Apr 16, 2026 from The Public Domain Review “A Beautiful Purplish Hue”: Frank Dudley Beane’s Experience with Ergot and Cannabis Indica (1884) An early contribution to drug literature, in which a man came to be fashioned out of wood.
Apr 16, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal AI Today, Calculators Back in the Day An article about the dangers of AI dependency reminded me of how I encouraged a middle schooler to do algebra by hand in my senior year of high school.
Apr 16, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Scraps A series of scribbles from my many notebooks. 1 The tenant jostles his keys. The landlord must have changed the locks again. He goes to the landlord’s door to ask why he keeps changing the locks. H...
Apr 16, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Unwritten Don't know what to do? Do nothing until you figure it out. Man, I sure love sitting around, doing nothing. It's awesome, perhaps the best use of my time. I think people give things like flow states...
Apr 15, 2026 from Improve Something Today Timely plugs: Mandy Brown’s workshop, Abby Covert’s next sensemaking book, & new music Three things to consider this week.
Apr 15, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Unique Individual Scoring Games in NBA History I recently published a new NBA research project inspired by Bam Adebayo’s 83-point eruption on March 10, 2026. Noting that Bam Adebayo is a modest scorer in the pantheon of NBA players who scored 6...
Apr 15, 2026 from The Emu Café Social AI Can’t “Lie” Ars Technica published an article by Ryan Whitam titled Testing suggests Google’s AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour. The article itself is about a New York Times investigation into the ac...
Apr 15, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-15-26 We have a second consecutive warm day in New York City. We also have a third consecutive day of Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. Seven Myths About the Iran War (Michael Doran for Tablet Magazine. April 13, 2...
Apr 15, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Bam Adebayo’s 83 and Scoring Averages in 60+ Point Game Seasons Bam Adebayo's 83 point performance inspired me to look at PPG and P/36 minutes by NBA players who scored at least 60 points in a game in their 60-point game seasons.
Apr 15, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Temperament and Spirit I broke my fast last night. There were about ten leftover chicken tenders from dinner a few nights ago, and I ate all of them. Thankfully I didn't eat anything else after that, but I don't feel too...
Apr 14, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-14-26 I did not have much time to engage in my daily “feed reading” this morning. But I will not let that stop me from publishing my daily Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. Justice Department Files Case to Revoke U...
Apr 14, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Introducing PDR Press Minis Announcing an exciting new book series!
