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1. fifth book of 2024: “A Wizard of Earthsea”, by Ursula K. Le Guin ( https://www.ursulakleguin.com/a-wizard-of-earthsea).

   Ursula K. Le Guin — A Wizard of EarthseaUrsula K. Le Guin

   After enjoying every single story in the “Hainish Novels and Stories ( https://www.ursulakleguin.com/hainish-novels-and-stories), I figured I can’t go wrong tackling Earthsea for the first time by just reading all of them in the similar “The Books of Earthsea" ( https://www.ursulakleguin.com/the-books-of-earthsea).

   Ursula K. Le Guin — Hainish Novels and StoriesUrsula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin — The Books of EarthseaUrsula K. Le Guin

2. 🚶🏽‍♂️ 🚶🏽‍♂️ 🚶🏽‍♂️ 🚶🏽‍♂️ 🚶🏽‍♂️ 🚶🏽‍♂️ 🚶🏽‍♂️ 🚶🏽‍♂️ 🚶🏽‍♂️ 🚶🏽‍♂️

3. one tell that this is good is that I immediately shazam’d it off of NTS’s “Expansions” mix ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmpgnzoFwNQ, which I now assume is named after the track (or suite) of the same name after this one on record), paused the mix and listened to it again, and then the everloving wife stormed over and asked when my music changed from good to bad and shut my door.

   Black Mystery Has Been RevealedProvided to YouTube by Rhino AtlanticBlack Mystery Has Been Revealed · Rahsaan Roland KirkLeft & Right℗ 1968 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United St...YouTube

   Rahsaan Roland Kirk, “Black Mystery Has Been Revealed”, from “left & right”, 1968 ( https://www.allmusic.com/album/left-right-mw0000661555)

   Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Left & R... Tracks & Reviews | AllMusicLeft & Right by Rahsaan Roland Kirk released in 1968. Find Left & Right reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.AllMusic

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmpgnzoFwNQ

   Black Mystery Has Been RevealedProvided to YouTube by Rhino AtlanticBlack Mystery Has Been Revealed · Rahsaan Roland KirkLeft & Right℗ 1968 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United St...YouTube

4. good morning

   

5. fourth book of 2024: “Mismatch” ( https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262539487/mismatch/ ) subtitled “How Inclusion Shapes Design” by Kat Holmes ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39644200-mismatch).

   MismatchSometimes designed objects reject their users: a computer mouse that doesn't work for left-handed people, for example, or a touchscreen payment system that o...MIT PressMismatch: How Inclusion Shapes DesignHow inclusive methods can build elegant design solution…Goodreads

   I grabbed this one after landing on a Don Norman piece ( https://www.fastcompany.com/90338379/i-wrote-the-book-on-user-friendly-design-what-i-see-today-horrifies-me). I enjoyed “The Design of Everyday Things" so I followed Norman’s suggestion to read Mismatch.

   Pretty quick read, and full of things so obviously correct that I got impatient with the author’s patience? Good stuff.