On the Link Between Great Thinking and Obsessive Walking ‹ Literary Hub
An excerpt from First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human by Jeremy DeSilva.
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Travel Remotely
This is a balm!
Choose a city, choose a radio station, choose a mode of transport (I like walking) and enjoy exploring.
Koya Bound — Eight Days on Japan’s Kumano Kodo
Speaking of Koya Bound, here’s the web-based counterpart to the physical book.
To Make a Book, Walk on a Book — Craig Mod
The ability of the physical world — a floor, a wall — to act as a screen of near infinite resolution becomes more powerful the more time we spend heads-down in our handheld computers, screens the size of palms. In fact, it’s almost impossible to see the visual patterns — the inherent adjacencies — of a physical book unless you deconstruct it and splay it out on the floor.
Craig gives us a walkthrough—literally—of the process behind the beautiful Koya Bound book.
Deciding to make any book is an act of creative faith (and ego and hubris, but these aren’t all exclusionary). But before Dan and I sold any copies of Koya Bound, we walked atop the pages that would become the book, not really knowing if there existed an audience for the book.
Paris and the Data Mind - The Morning News
Craig writes about the hologram of his quantified self.
Walk Score - How walkable is your house?
Find out whether you really need a car in your neighbourhood. My place got a score of 75 which is pretty darn good.
dooce: How to Charm the Holy Living Jesus out of Me
Leta is walking, much to my relief and absolute delight.