"Half trash compactor, half empty." Composting; Overdesigning

Update: 2025-07-24

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Ellen's back for a serendipitously in-sync pair of metacognition-rich roundtable topics. In this episode, Lydia shares a chapter from one of her favorite books and tries to explain ganache while Stephen laments how easy it is to duct tape on features instead of solving problems. Together they discover four brains are better than one when it comes to figuring out how to get out of your head.

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Composting

Writing Down the Bones

Natalie Goldberg

Bonbon

Wikipedia

A black and white picture of the Croissant Express, formerly located on the corner of the Uptown Theater building in Minneapolis. The photo is of the outside of the store where you can see people inside and the marquee lights of the theater above the store windows.

The Croissant Express diner mentioned in the book, formerly located on the corner of the Uptown Theater building.

0:36:00

Overdesigning

Mural

Miro

A recreation of Lewis Carol's nyctograph. It's a carboard rectangle with 16 squares cut out. A 5 Euro cent coin is next to it for scale. The Nyctograph key is underneath the photograph, showing the symbol corresponding to each letter of the English alphabet.

via. "Writing at Night: Lewis Carroll, John Milton, and Me" by Mike Mason. https://www.mikemasonbooks.com/writing-at-night-lewis-carroll-john-milton-and-me/

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