Raven's View

Here I am, inching closer and closer to the end. My last update was almost 2 months ago, at 99.5 km. I had hope this would challenge me to get out there and walk the walk, but it's more of a passive record or the bits I do from day to day. Still need to find a way to encourage/trick myself to walk more daily. Yes, research shows even 4k steps a day is significant, but that's a benefit for future me. 

I'll hit some hilites for this post, including the postcard at the 3/4 mark. 

Repost from Aug 11/23

Dumb and dumber?

What happened to critical thinking?

The world seems full of outlandish and illogical beliefs about COVID, recession, UFO’s, world domination, stolen elections, yada yada. Beliefs that are based on a personal faith or morality, as opposed to opinions based on facts. Beliefs that are the result of faulty reasoning, or no reasoning at all, that are all too readily embraced by people as patently true, and are spread to their friends. And unfortunately, that are used to justify many wrong, even dangerous decisions, for themselves and others. Is society just getting dumber, as in less intelligent, with less common sense, less curiosity, less initiative, and less skill in critical thinking?

Repost from Jul 7/23

 Canadian news is starting to vanish from Instagram. Google is next.

Is this a concern?

(Note - I’ve added the Chat and Notes features to my SubStack but there’s no obligation to add the app - feel free to just read my newsletters as is. And share and comment.)

This recent news topic was not that relevant to me, as I didn't even realize that I could get CBC news on Instagram. I thought it was just for photos.

Repost from Jul 5/23

 Can you hear me now?

I need a Plan B 

I'm still in search of a way of being heard - not only listened to but also responded to.

TL;DR - I’ll pump up the volume here with more posts and the chat feature. Plus frequent notes (which don’t bury you in notifications, BTW).