Behind the Scenes

A collection of 153 posts

Inspiration

Reading Layers

Are you familiar with the concept of pace layers? It's an invention of Stewart Brand, describing how society changes at different paces. The slowest pace of change is nature, then culture, then governance, then infrastructure, then commerce, and finally fashion - which changes fastest. It's a

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Tenday Notes 1 June - 10 July 2023

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. It has been a little while since you heard from me, because I've been (a) on holiday and

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Tenday Notes 11 May - 30 May 2023

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. I've released a new script for the Monome Norns - a kind of open-source musical gameboy with a

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Tenday Notes 1 May - 10 May 2023

Hello friends, my name is Duncan and this is Hello From Duncan - a newsletter than I send every ten days or so, rounding up my recent creative input and output. Becasue you can't have the latter without the former. It's free, you're getting

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Tenday Notes 21 April - 30 April 2023

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. For the last five years or so, the 11-year solar magnetic activity cycle has been at its lowest ebb. Now,

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Tenday Notes 11 April - 20 April 2023

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. The lovely folks at Ableton have written up an article about data sonification and climate action, featuring quite a lot

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Skåneleden Notes 1 Apr - 10 Apr 2023

Usually in the notes that I write every ten days, I round up my recent creative input and output. This time round, though, things are a bit different - over Easter I took a five-day walk through the forests of northern Skåne, so that's what this post is

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Tenday Notes 21 March - 30 March 2023

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. The most clicked link from last time was to a set of badges that allow you to mark content as

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Tenday Notes 11 March - 20 March 2023

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Off the back of the excellent Designing Your System for Creativity workshop by Oliver Burkeman that I mentioned here a

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Tenday Notes 1 March - 10 March 2023

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. I've figured how to track how many links get clicked in these messages. So, stealing a trick from

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Tenday Notes 21 Feb - 28 Feb 2023

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Short one this, as it's a short tenday period consisting of just eight days. THANKS FEBRUARY. I'

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Tenday Notes 11 Feb - 20 Feb 2023

Hello friends. My name is Duncan and this is Hello From Duncan - a regular roundup of my recent creative input and output. You're getting it because you signed up for it, and if you want to unsubscribe then you can do so any time with the link

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Tenday Notes 1 Feb - 10 Feb 2023

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. This is a short one, because I spent last weekend seeing friends in Gothenburg, and I'm spending this

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Month Notes - January 2023

Every ten days or so (a month in this case!), I share a digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Biggest news of the month is that we're making the Elevate Dataviz Learning Community

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Tenday Notes 1 Dec - 10 Dec 2022

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. As promised, a new season of Signal Chain has begun - my creative collaboration with photographer Oliver Holms. Check out

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Tenday Notes 21 Nov - 30 Nov 2022

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. I'm writing to you today from a cabin in the woods where I've been spending a

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Tenday Notes 1 Nov - 20 Nov 2022

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Scandalously, it has been 20 days since you last heard from me. I write these notes by trying to scribble

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Tenday Notes 21 Oct - 31 Oct 2022

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. I did a little work on the Loud Numbers Norns script this week, which brings data sonification to the Norns

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Tenday Notes 11 Oct - 20 Oct 2022

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. This issue is a little unusual, in that it mostly consists of a lengthy travelogue of my train journey to

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Tenday Notes 1 Oct - 10 Oct 2022

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. This week I'm off on a whistle-stop tour through the Netherlands and Luxembourg by train, to give a

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Tenday Notes 21 Sep - 30 Sep 2022

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. I’ve been working with Conservation International for the last couple of years on the Exponential Roadmap for Natural Climate

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Tenday Notes 11 Sep - 20 Sep 2022

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. The Elevate Dataviz Learning Community that I run alongside Alli Torban, Will Chase and Gabrielle Merite is going well, and

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Tenday Notes 1 Sep - 10 Sep 2022

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Over the last ten days, most of my freelance time has been spent putting the final editorial touches on Conservation

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Tenday Notes 21 Aug - 31 Aug 2022

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. I've been in Sweden now for ten years. On 27 August 2012, I got on a plane and

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Tenday Notes 11 Aug - 20 Aug 2022

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. I've largely finished off the sonification work that I was talking about last time, though there might be