Learning Log, Oct 2025

Our first child turned a month old during October! We are solidly living in the baby time vortex. What hour is it? What day is it? Who knows!

Apart from the endless eat / 💩 / sleep cycle, I’ve been:

• Spending time with my parents, who came to visit their grandchild
• Going on family neighborhood walks to gaze at fall foliage
• Watching all the spooky movies. I was really into Weapons (2025), and found The Substance (2024) to be simultaneously disgusting, heartbreaking, visually arresting, and at times humorous???
• Hyperfixating on Obsidian vault as just one part of postpartum nesting. Clean and organize all the things! 💥

🔖 Reading

Product

Making Sense of Your Data With an Evidence Map

Web

• AI and Home-Cooked Software
• The History of Themeable User Interfaces
• Lots to Shout About in Quiet UI
• Amazon Explains How Its AWS Outage Took Down the Web

Journaling & stationery

• What I do when I finish a notebook
• I Deleted My Second Brain

Art

• Untamed Flora Subsumes Abandoned Greenhouses in Romain Veillon’s ‘Secret Gardens’
• Blink and You’d Miss the Moments Topping This Year’s Pure Street Photography Awards
• Vibrant Beaded Compositions by Renée Condo Convey the Mi’gmaq Spirit of Empathy
• Tiny Art Show Repurposes a Disused Stairwell Into a 1:6-Scale Gallery

Fiber arts

Montreal Jewish Museum Reopens Century-Old Sewing Shop as a Pop-Up Exhibit

Other interesting articles

• You Are Insignificant. That's a Good Thing.
• He Read (at Least) 3,599 Books in His Lifetime. Now Anyone Can See His List.
• Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada Border
• The 3,000-Year-Old Story Hidden in the @ Sign