Draad

Draad is a practice for focusing thought and intellectual activity over time.

The feeling I'm chasing: the intellectual aliveness of a university campus, where loosely overlapping interests and chance encounters keep questions in motion.

Months running

Notes

661

Essays

On Aspiration
There are questions that get settled by becoming someone else, rather than finding answers. How can we think about them better?

Projects

Yazagac
A tree-structured writing practice for building up bodies of texts.
Beebudget
Beeminder solves commitments. Beebudget solves management of them.
Third Timer
Work flexibly, break proportionally.
Mouse Sentinel
Liberate your hands from your mouse.
Des Cartas
Map all things in all dimensions

Origins

Draad grew out of a practice built on GitHub Issues, inspired by Simon Willison, and Daniel Reeves' idea of backlog freshening, using a rolodex-style rotation to keep a backlog alive.

Triage trace

Each note gets triaged with a dice roll. Here is what that looks like — with private details redacted.

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Follow along — occasional updates on Draad and related thinking.