Jim Willis

  • About the Center for Neighborhood Technology

    About the Center for Neighborhood Technology

    Since 1978, the Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) has worked to show urban communities locally and all across the country how to develop more sustainably.

  • links for 2008-01-24

    links for 2008-01-24

  • The Morning Playlist

    The Morning Playlist

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    Morning is the most difficult time of day for me to select what to listen to. The right playlist can set the day off on a trajectory of inspirado. But a poor choice can count off a day of ennui and lethargy.

    I need some suggestions to spice up my morning listening. I’ll usually hit play while I’m whipping up coffee and breakfast for the kids and let it roll til I get the kitchen cleaned up. Lately I’ve been enjoying Beethoven’s Piano Sonata 28 as well as some New Order and other…

  • checking out El Ten Eleven thx to @golden_meanie sounds like a lite version of Heroic Doses. Way nice.

  • working out of Zebu on Broad St. this AM. Using their only customer-accessible power outlet. Poorly thought out design.

  • links for 2008-01-23

    links for 2008-01-23

  • Doing project proposals. It’s drudgery but I should be so lucky, right? Getting distracted by my lame proposal template.

  • A few of the gems

    A few of the gems

    that Cousin Bry had on the external USB drive he left at my house:

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    Albert King/Stevie Ray Vaughan

    Antonio Carlos Jobim

    Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers

    Beastie Boys

    Benny Green/Russell Malone

    Bill Evans & Jim Hall

    Bill Frisell, Ron Carter & Paul Motian

    Bill Frisell/Dave Holland/Elvin Jones

    Bill Frisell/Dave Holland/Kenny Wheeler/Lee Konitz

    Carlos Santana & Wayne Shorter

    Cat Power

    Christian McBride

    Cornell Dupree

    Critters Buggin

    Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

    David…

  • A to G

    A to G

    A to G is a simple, free utility for Mac OS X that exports your Apple Address Book contacts into a Gmail-readable text file.

  • wow. I just found a bunch more people I know who are on twitter by using my gmail addressbook at http://twitter.com/invitations

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Reading Notes

  • Read: Manufactured Anxiety: How Self-Improvement Became a Self Destruct Sequence
    Who profits from our constant state of dissatisfaction? The answer, of course, is painfully obvious. Every industry that sells a solution to a problem you […]
  • Read: Pema Chödrön’s Three Methods for Working with Chaos
    • No more struggle: “Whatever arises, train again and again in seeing it for what it is. The innermost essence of mind is without bias. […]
  • Read: My Friends Aren’t Reading
    the shifts have been in place for awhile. A certain kind of book—say those reviewed in the NYRB—will become like opera, or theater, or ballet, […]
  • Read: The Tech Coup
    . The EU invokes a mechanism called the precautionary principle in cases where an innovation, such as GMOs, has not yet been sufficiently researched for […]
  • Read: Why Not Bluesky
    The real problem, in my mind, isn’t in the nature of this particular Venture-Capital operation. Because the whole raison-d’etre of Venture Capital is to make […]

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