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Book Notes: Ben Franklin-An American Life (Part 2–by the numbers)

April 25, 2024April 25, 2024 Allen

Pages-493 Notes harvested from the book: 70. Each note is tagged with several categories. The primary category is shown below, with the number of note

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Visuals

Street Poetry

April 24, 2024April 24, 2024 Allen

For those of you that use Instagram, try this link.

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Books Journaling Writings

Putting Pen to Paper, but Not Just Any Pen to Any Paper

April 24, 2024April 24, 2024 Allen

In my post about the book Writers on Writing, I didn’t mention my favorite essay in the book because I thought it deserved it’s own

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Books Learning Writings

Book Notes: Writers on Writing

April 23, 2024April 23, 2024 Allen

I’m actually tempted to call this post “The Streetcar Chronicles” since I read this book over a multi week period, using stolen moments while riding

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Books Learning

Book Notes: Benjamin Franklin-An American Life (Part 1-The Moral Perfection Project)

April 21, 2024April 21, 2024 Allen

This is quite a lengthy book (approximately 500 pages) and a detailed review will take much too long for anyone to read all at once.

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Books Thinking Visuals

Book Notes: The Back of the Napkin

April 15, 2024April 23, 2024 Allen

I found this book at the library as a supplement to my ongoing self improvement project to improve my visual thinking. To me, the book

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Journaling Learning Thinking Visuals Writings

California Typewriter: Review and Commentary

April 12, 2024April 12, 2024 Allen

The film California typewriter ostensibly concerns a Berkeley, California typewriter shop as it struggles to stay afloat in the digital world of computers and tablets.

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Books Thinking Writings

Book Notes: “Knowledge, Reality, and Value”

April 5, 2024April 5, 2024 Allen

Yeah, it’s a philosophy book. Why read philosophy? Every philosophy reader has their own reasons, but to me it’s a way to consider Big Ideas,

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Games Visuals

Plum Island? Oh, the horror! What it is, and a report of our game.

March 31, 2024March 31, 2024 Allen

Game Play Overview The Plum Island Horror is a boardgame by GMT games that is cooperative and features a race against the clock in order

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Learning Visuals

Learning to Doodle Part 3 (Random Practice Doodles)

March 25, 2024April 2, 2024 Allen
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