Town Hall #17: Scrimmage

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In American football, the line of scrimmage is an imaginary border at which the next round of play begins.

To "move the ball forward" is to push that imaginary border into favorable territory.

We fantasize about heroic Hail Mary passes, but often fumble when it counts.

Creation is a toilsome, boring, everyday thing. Historic plays can't be planned in advance.

Keep moving that line of scrimmage forward. Use your lunchbreak to add a paragraph to your magnum opus. Scrounge for between time. Clearly structure large projects with lots of alcoves that can be decorated independently. Build Hemingway Bridges that beg to be completed. Do something. Anything.

New Writings

• cram those ideas into a clown car
• “MVP” is dead! Long live “FPC”.
• graphic design is my passion
• HNTV: play hn yt links locally
• Measure twice, vise thrice.
• husband, father, obligation

Projects

• wigwam.directory: I added some excellent recommendations from the supreme and lövely Kartik.
• scrapscript: Some brilliant folks have saved me from another design/death spiral, so now we're actually nearing the first public release! Very excited to share more details soon.
• blogs.hn: No recent updates. Does anybody know a simple way to create a global RSS feed from all the listed RSS feeds?

Recommendations

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Purchases

• electric cardboard cutter
• deodorant with peel-off label
• jig and brackets for floating shelves
• laser level

Books