May. 25th, 2021

oursin: A C19th illustration of a hedgehood, with a somewhat worried expression (mopey/worried hedgehog)

Has anyone else experienced anything similar?

Having had two new subscribers to this journal who, when I go and look at their profiles, first joined DW in May 2009, and have not posted or commented since that date.

I may add that both have links in their profiles to external websites (called, with startling originality 'my new blog [username]') that Malwarebytes blocks...

One only had 1 singular other subscription/access yesterday but seems to have added a few since.

Heads up?

oursin: Painting by Carrington of performing seals in a circus balancing coloured balls (Performing seals)

I am so there for this: Efficiency is the Enemy: There’s a good chance most of the problems in your life and work come down to insufficient slack. Here’s how slack works and why you need more of it. Yes, absolutely, the need for wiggle room and redundancy in systems.

But I am also here for this: Embrace the Grind: 'The only “trick” is that this preparation seems so boring, so impossibly tedious, that when we see the effect we can’t imagine that anyone would do something so tedious just for this simple effect'. I can think of a lot of things that have involved someone or someones putting in some tedious repetitive grind at some point of some process so that at some other point it will be lovely and smooth and no worries for someotherones. (Funny, why should I think of those 'found hidden in the archives' that were catalogued and the catalogue put online and the documents neatly filed in conservationally appropriate folders and stored in repositories kept to appropriate conditions and made available to them in an efficiently run reading room, because processes were in place...)

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