Kevin Kelly has published 88 prompts for long-term thinking he wrote while at the aforementioned Long Now Foundation. Not coincidentally, they read like a series os more serious Oblique Strategies. There’s also a hint of corporate sloganeering, which is what they kind of were meant to be.

Regardless, here are a few that caught my eye:

Finite games focus on how they end; infinite games focus on how they continue.

Our job is to keep the process of progress going.

Thinking about the future is a way to think about the systems.

Nearly all predictions are wrong. But some are useful.

A key advantage to taking the long view is that you will have few competitors there.

Things that have never happened before happen all the time.

With any luck, today will mark the 18th sound change in a piece of music begun 25 years ago and that’s not scheduled to end for another six centuries.

The music itself was composed by the master of minimalism, Mr. John Cage, and is itself an adoption of a piece he wrote for piano and is appropriately known as “As Slow as Possible” (the piano version only lasts about an hour or so). The last time the custom-built organ in the German town of Halberstadt change the sound it was playing was 912 days ago.

Amazingly, there’s an even longer piece of music being performed: “Longplayer”, composed by a founding member of the Pogues, is scheduled to end Dec. 31, 2999. Not coincidentally, one of the places can this millennium-long performance is at the San Francisco headquarters of the Long Now Foundation

For the first time in my life, I’m meal planning.

Nothing elaborate, just notes jotted down in Things to help me keep up my habit of cooking a new meal (as in a new mix of ingredients) every day.

Sparked by a change of working locations, meal portions, and some unfortunately wasted ingredients, it’s been a surprisingly helpful “future favour” to myself these past couple of weeks. So much so it might become a new post-market shop routine.

(And, yes, the minor tweaks to my little produce calendar has also helped spur my creative cooking along, especially since Toronto’s in the height of the season now, too.)

I have some side interests only obvious from my digital fingerprints if you look really closely. Some, tho, are almost invisible.

That said, here’s a clip of a video referencing a very different medium than I design in, but still resonated:

I like to make the most extreme thing in some certain way … and then bringing it back to more normal. You’ll feel if you’re making something really crazy, [and] you’ll notice [more easily] what’s happening and what’s going on in the design.

— Will Solly

Something seems to have changed at Meetup.

The once essential service for connecting people together — which went into a steep decline after it began charging fees more than a decade ago — seems to be reawakened.

Recently, I’ve been getting invites to new events hosted by Meetup events I once belonged to. They are unfortunately not the sign of a community coming back together.

By way of example, one Toronto group formed around augmented reality is now hosting online-only (Pacific Timezone coded) sessions offering practice in navigating difficult conversations.A quick check finds the similar thing happening to a Montreal tech group and there are at least a few others like it.

Some are now hosted by the same “person,” so this might be a one-off, but I have my doubts. Regardless it’s a reminder of much of a graveyard the web has become, as well as there are always people will always find a way to exploit the remains.

Today is the middle of July.

Yesterday was a new moon, and this morning the sun was red with the haze of fire.

Soon I’ll kick-off a new phase myself.

New job, new routines, lots of changes.

This is just here to remind me later of how it all began.

This is has been saved in my reading list for a while, but finally started working through it. Not bad.

I think.

Haven’t built my own iOS app, but tempted to now try.