Category: Writing
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Tendrils and Stacks: Assisting Flow States with a Clipboard Manager
In our highly monotropic family, we humorously but also seriously say, “Stop yanking my tendrils!” when someone crashes our stack during high memory state zone work. Interruptions are very dysregulating when they pull us out of an attention tunnel. “Tendrils” comes from “Tendril Theory”. When I’m focused on something My mind sends out a million…
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Contextual Computing, Workflow Thinking, and the Future of Text
I consider text to be an indispensable part of our societies, no matter where situated on our planet. The potential permanence of the written record is vital to our recall of the past and to our ability to communicate with the future. Vinton G. Cerf, Foreword, The Future of Text We need to become better…
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Smoking Secrets
by Betsy Selvam Content Note: gender dysphoria Header Art: “Smoking Secrets” by Betsy Selvam is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0 I. I muster enough courage to smoke — a sin I’ve smelled only on mouths of men until I left home for college. I almost want someone I know to spot my lips wisping white…
