Category Archives: Curation

Commonplace Book

Posted on March 27, 2022 by Skip Walter

Somewhere in the last couple of years I came across the idea of commonplace books. “Commonplace books (or commonplaces) are a way to compile knowledge, usually by writing information into books. They have been kept from antiquity, and were kept particularly during the Renaissance and … Continue reading →

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Innovating with GPT-3

Posted on December 28, 2020 by Skip Walter

Day 291 of Self Quarantine      Covid 19 Deaths in U.S.:  333,000   GA Vote!! I am in the process of writing my second book – Know Now.  I had planned for this to be a traditional book aimed at … Continue reading →

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Viewing social networks – Chirpty

Posted on December 25, 2020 by Skip Walter

Day 288 of Self Quarantine      Covid 19 Deaths in U.S.:  329,000   GA Vote!! I am a sucker for interesting visualizations.  A Chirpty twitter social network view showed up in my Twitter feed.  I couldn’t resist.  I had to … Continue reading →

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Annotating Zoom Meetings with Otter.ai

Posted on December 13, 2020 by Skip Walter

Day 276 of Self Quarantine      Covid 19 Deaths in U.S.:  298,000   GA Vote!! Several times a year I meet with members of the University of Washington at Bothell Computing and Software Systems (CSS) Technical Advisory Board.  Due to … Continue reading →

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He saw me

Posted on August 22, 2020 by Skip Walter

Day 162 of Self Quarantine             Covid 19 Deaths in U.S.:  175,000 In the fall of 2014 I attended my first TEDxRainier Seattle in the Opera Hall at the Seattle Center.  Each of the speakers had … Continue reading →

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Lifelet: Culling and rearranging a lifetime of books

Posted on August 5, 2020 by Skip Walter

Day 145 of Self Quarantine             Covid 19 Deaths in U.S.:  158,000 I love books. I don’t love organizing my books. I hate culling my books. I really hate finding that I bought the same book … Continue reading →

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The Future Earth by Eric Holthaus

Posted on August 2, 2020 by Skip Walter

Day 142 of Self Quarantine             Covid 19 Deaths in U.S.:  157,000 At the top of my existential crisis list is the climate change dynamic disaster.  To see he who shall not be named ( Tя☭mp), … Continue reading →

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What is a book? Part 4: Monetizing

Posted on July 3, 2020 by Skip Walter

Day 112 of Self Quarantine                       Covid 19 Deaths in U.S.:  131,000 “The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.” – Benjamin Disraeli … Continue reading →

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What is a book? Part 2: The Form

Posted on July 1, 2020 by Skip Walter

Day 110 of Self Quarantine                       Covid 19 Deaths in U.S.:  129,000 I was beyond ecstatic to be selected as Vice President of Software Engineering for Aldus Corporation in 1990.  I … Continue reading →

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What is a book?

Posted on June 30, 2020 by Skip Walter

Day 109 of Self Quarantine                       Covid 19 Deaths in U.S.:  128,000 I love books. From the minute I learned how to read, I surrounded myself with books of all kinds. … Continue reading →

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