Process share for Diego:

Here’s a screenshot of my thinking space, the Markdown editor Ulysses. I’m currently working on a piece about our “generation ship” house and NATiVE’s part in making it: “Our Generation Ship: Electrify all the things, Automate all the things, Backup all the things”

Screenshot of Ulysses showing my library, sheets in my inbox, the current sheet, and the dashboard.
Screenshot of Ulysses showing my library, sheets in my inbox, the current sheet, and the dashboard.

You can see other pieces I’m currently working on in that screenshot: “Accommodations in Neurodiverse Relationships”, “The Mass Transformation of Other People’s Risk Into Profit”, “Samefooding the Apocalypse”, “Crip Wisdom in the Age of Coronavirus”. Whatever’s on my mind ends up in Ulysses. Some of those thoughts are iterated into blog posts that I publish to my WordPress blogs directly from Ulysses.

Start building an anti-library of your interests. My ebook collection is pretty vast and full of highlights. I use Readwise to collect and surface those highlights. A commonplace book of quotes is a useful tool for knowledge, and ReadWise helps you mine, master, and create serendipity from your commonplace book.

ReadWise showing quotes from "A Dance With Dragons" and "Digital Sociologies"
ReadWise showing quotes from "A Dance With Dragons" and "Digital Sociologies"
ReadWise widgets showing quotes from "Loud Hands" and "Inclusive Education for Autistic Children"
ReadWise widgets showing quotes from "Loud Hands" and "Inclusive Education for Autistic Children"

I updated “Bring the backchannel forward. Written communication is the great social equalizer.”  and “I’m Autistic. Here’s what I’d like you to know.” with a selection from “THINKING PERSON’S GUIDE TO AUTISM: On Hans Asperger, the Nazis, and Autism: A Conversation Across Neurologies” on written communication as a means of avoiding bias.

Thin slice studies showed that people prejudge us harshly in just micro-seconds of seeing or hearing us (though we fare better than neurotypical subjects when people only see our written words).

Source: THINKING PERSON’S GUIDE TO AUTISM: On Hans Asperger, the Nazis, and Autism: A Conversation Across Neurologies