The Friday Roundup

A collection of tabs I’ve kept open this week - to revisit, research, and remember.

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Tangier Painting Holiday - my wife and I decided to go on one solo excursion each year that was completely personal. An opportunity to be selfish, explore something new, dig deeper into an interest, and do it all alone. We recognize the importance of not only continuing to learn and explore as we age, but also the value of being alone. When you’re home, in your routine, balancing work and school, trying to maintain relationships with friends, it can be hard to carve out time to just do something totally selfish.

I’ll be turning 40 next year and I decided to lean into my lifelong love of drawing by booking this excursion to Tangier to celebrate. It’s basically four days of drawing and painting (in this amazing house), exploring Tangier, and meeting new people.

Randonautica - I read about this app on Perfectly Imperfect and I was intrigued. They bill it as the “world’s first and only quantumly generated create-your-own-adventure app.” It’s based on the controversial theory of Mind Matter Interaction, which is defined as “the possibility that human intention may have an impact on matter at a distance.” In a nutshell, the app encourages you to set an intention for the world around you, and then the app generates a random coordinate within set parameters on a map, and then you must go to that random location with your intention in mind.

The site says the “app was created to encourage people to venture outside of their day-to-day routine by using a quantum random number generator to derive a truly random coordinate to journey to.”

This seemed like a mind fuck and also an interesting way to engage with our world. I know I get stuck in a rut sometimes - I feel like my world is too small, or I take my surroundings for granted. This seems like an interesting way to engage with surprise, delight, and mystery. SOLD.