My cartoon for the latest issue of New Scientist.
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The Basics of Commonplacing
A commonplace book, to me, is simply a place to collect ideas. Here now is a collection of resources about, well, the collecting of ideas.
Commonplace books are traditionally analog; many of these links talk about analog notebooks and what to do with them. I have sporadically kept commonplace items on index cards, and I’m looking to combine this practice with an honest-to-God notebook practice as well as a digital version here to track what I find, particularly online.
Here is the ultimate piece, in my mind, about commonplacing, by Alan Jacobs: “Commonplace Books”: The Tumblrs of an Earlier Era (The Atlantic). Sadly, Jacobs is no longer on Tumblr, but his piece is still worth a read.
A ton of other articles and blog posts follow here:
Best Notebooks for a Commonplace Book (The Gentleman Stationer)
The Commonplace Book: How to Get Compound Interest on Your Ideas (Richard Meadows, Deep Dish)
Create a Digital Commonplace Book (J.D. Biersdorfer, The New York Times [subscription])
Getting Started With a Book of Mottoes, or Commonplace Book (Simply Charlotte Mason blog)
How and Why to Keep a Commonplace Book (Ryan Holiday)
If You Don’t Have a Commonplace Book, You’re Missing Out (Dani Weiss)
The Joys of Keeping a Commonplace Book (Lindsey Weishar, Verily)
Strategies to Keep a Commonplace Book (Kevin Eagan, Critical Margins)
The Lost Art of Commonplacing (Bobby Powers, The Writing Cooperative)
What I Keep in My Commonplace Book (Sarah MacKenzie)
What Is a Commonplace Book and Why You Need One (Aly Juma)
Why (and How) You Should Be Keeping a Commonplace Book (Andy Hayes)
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Welcome back to its really hot and I’m going to murder someone
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Reblog to have something lgbt happen to you this summer
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reminder since we're gettin another wave of bots:
if you don't distinguish yourself from a bot, just any sorta indication that a human made the blog, like a funny pfp or description, or even a disclaimer that you're a lurker, then you're almost certainly gonna be blocked n reported for spam when you follow people
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I love her and I love the Design Museum 🥰
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04 May 2023
Update and a different view
07 September
The house is coming together.
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hi.
if you see this please PLEASE send me a picture of your favorite bookshelf in your room. or a picture of your entire library
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this is going to be difficult -> i am capable of doing difficult things -> i have done everything prior to this moment -> this difficulty will soon be proof of capability
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لا حول و لا قوة إلا بالله،
Tonight, innocent people are dying in several places in Sudan as the war has officially broke out as of this morning, and yet there is so little coverage about it. Black Muslim lives that are located in Africa ? Nobody cares.
يا رب سلّم..
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