iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Spencer Beacock @spencerbeacock.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I think this is right. At least in a N. Am. context, crushing labour has meant that people feel powerless to resist slow dehumanization and deskilling of work. Your job gets crappier each year but what can you do?

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Spencer Beacock @spencerbeacock.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Double weeknotes today! Coworking in a church, reflections on the attention/anxiety/action loops that homeownership sculpts, farm animals Last week: spencerbeacock.com/weeknotes/20... This week: spencerbeacock.com/weeknotes/20...

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Spencer Beacock @spencerbeacock.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Extremely Ontario-coded afternoon activity: A sink sprang a leak, so I put the old part in a plastic milk bag and went to the obvious place for plumbing supplies, Canadian Tire

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Spencer Beacock @spencerbeacock.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Weeknotes for Mar 22 - 28: spencerbeacock.com/weeknotes/20... In which I discuss birthday cake, Marathon, and Sinners

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March 22 to 28, 2026

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Spencer Beacock @spencerbeacock.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

My big project over the last 14 months (!) has been building a shed from scratch. It’s been incredibly satisfying to make a little building from nothing. It’s not done, but it’s rigged for lighting now, and the glow is so cozy that I couldn’t keep it all for myself. Happy Friday.

It is night time. At the end of a long and narrow backyard, a small shed glows with light from inside. Beyond the shed is a two storey cinderblock wall. In the foreground is a large tree.

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Dr. Sam Anderson @sam-science.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Heatwaves can be dry, or wet, or dry-then-wet, or wet-then-dry, or wet-then-dry-then-wet, or... It all depends where you are and what season it is! Our new paper dives into the cool world of heatwaves and precipitation. doi.org/10.1088/3033... @ioppublishing.bsky.social @sfuscience.bsky.social

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On the mean precipitation characteristics of North American heatwaves - IOPscience

On the mean precipitation characteristics of North American heatwaves, Anderson, Sam, Chartrand, Shawn

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Spencer Beacock @spencerbeacock.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Going to miss the fantastic textiles and tilework and dishware in Andor. What a show.

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Spencer Beacock @spencerbeacock.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Another form of catnip for a certain kind of systematizing brain: writing business requirements for a technology solution. "Here are 700 imperative, all-encompassing sentences articulating my specific mental model for how the world should work, each categorized and nested and linked"

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Spencer Beacock @spencerbeacock.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Let’s try ‘working in public’ again, here’s what’s on deck: - kick off new project (going deep on an arcane discipline’s ways of working/processes, to draft req’ts for the software chassis it sits upon) - build out journey, IA, req’ts, and WFs for a small digital thing

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Spencer Beacock @spencerbeacock.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Ok, on deck for today: - Review a pseudo-proposal — really more of a menu - Rebuild a project plan for a requirements definition project for enterprise health software - Draft a quick and dirty qual research plan and recruit spec - Schedule a handful of workshops and meetings over the coming weeks

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Spencer Beacock @spencerbeacock.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Here’s a lovely little ode to e-bikes from @robinrendle.bsky.social Maybe 2025 is the year for me to get one, and perhaps you too. They are, after all, marvellously *democratic*.

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Spencer Beacock @spencerbeacock.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

In news unrelated to the other thing going on: my dog continues to be extremely good.

A small black dog sits on the grass in the sun beside a fence. Her fur shines in the light and her ears are perked up and swivelled in different directions. Behind her is a small red plastic slide.

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Spencer Beacock @spencerbeacock.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Made a little tool caddy today. It was not a hard puzzle: no complex stakeholdering, no fundamentally misaligned incentives. Instead, it was about imperfect material and the still-learning movements of the tools. In the span of about four hours, a need was resolved, simply and without frills.

A 24 inch by 18 inch wooden box that is about 5 inches deep, with a wood dowel handle, and filled with tools including a saw, a drill, some clamps, hearing and eye protection, and drill bits. It sits on top of a small folding workbench, on an outdoor deck.

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Spencer Beacock @spencerbeacock.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

The need to write design principles* has strong “underperforming former gifted kid” energy (* a bunch of rules that are your idiosyncratic attempt to steer a messy thing in a conclusive way (and which make you mad when all your peers don’t follow them))

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