We contain multitudes, all of us, even the worst of us.

From those multitudes, we make things.

Sometimes the things we make come from the light in us. Sometimes they come from the shadows. Usually, making something requires a bit of both.

• Annie Mueller, When you love something made by a terrible person

After decades of seeing fake, over-saturated travel photos online, it’s tough to convince anyone when you experience one in your own backyard.

For me, the snow makes the winter worth it.

We need to break the notion of “discovery” away from the myth that some system will find interesting stuff and hand it to us without us having to do any work.

• Pete Brown, We need to stop talking about discovery

As the Internet continues to increasingly mirror how things work in the real world, we have to abandon the idea that good things will come to us on an endless conveyer belt. Unlike spam calls, junk mail, and advertisements the things that we actually care about require us to find them and are not produced at a constant rate.

I enjoyed watching the steam’s colorful glow in this morning’s 8° sunrise.