Kannik
@kannik.bsky.social
A polymath lynx who finds the world fascinating and lives in possibility.
#Mindfulness Moment: To my lexicon bucket that includes awfulize & catastrophize I'm adding high-stakesifying for the foible of taking situations & (improperly) turning them into 5-alarm fires. (w/ a bonus look at those who are doing it to us for their own gain...)
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Philosophy Tuesday
In life, I’d invite us to consider that we often “high stakes”-ify things that aren’t high stakes or simply don’t need to be high stakes. As in, we have elements in our life, or aspects of our life…
lynxthoughts.com
September 16, 2026 at 3:16 AM
#Mindfulness Moment: To my lexicon bucket that includes awfulize & catastrophize I'm adding high-stakesifying for the foible of taking situations & (improperly) turning them into 5-alarm fires. (w/ a bonus look at those who are doing it to us for their own gain...)
lynxthoughts.com/2026/09/15/p...
lynxthoughts.com/2026/09/15/p...
#Architecture Moment: It's no secret I love adaptive reuse. And the trope of "box within a box". And aged masonry walls. And books. And great quality of space and light. So, let's put that all together, shall we? :)
lynxthoughts.com/2026/09/14/a...
lynxthoughts.com/2026/09/14/a...
Architecture Monday
This little bit of adaptive reuse does that trope that I so do enjoy: it’s a box within a box! Well, mostly. In this case, the existing roof had so fallen into disrepair that it had to be re…
lynxthoughts.com
September 15, 2026 at 4:08 AM
#Architecture Moment: It's no secret I love adaptive reuse. And the trope of "box within a box". And aged masonry walls. And books. And great quality of space and light. So, let's put that all together, shall we? :)
lynxthoughts.com/2026/09/14/a...
lynxthoughts.com/2026/09/14/a...
#Mindfulness Moment: A quote from Roger Ebert (yep, that one!) from 2012 smacks me in the face and helps clarify something that I hadn't been able to succinctly distinguish before about the ways we can take something in. :)
lynxthoughts.com/2026/09/08/p...
lynxthoughts.com/2026/09/08/p...
Philosophy Tuesday
“We may be … entering an age of credulity. In a time of shortened attention spans and instant gratification, trained by web surfing and movies with an average shot length of seconds, w…
lynxthoughts.com
September 9, 2026 at 3:13 AM
#Mindfulness Moment: A quote from Roger Ebert (yep, that one!) from 2012 smacks me in the face and helps clarify something that I hadn't been able to succinctly distinguish before about the ways we can take something in. :)
lynxthoughts.com/2026/09/08/p...
lynxthoughts.com/2026/09/08/p...
#Architecture Moment: This one's not built but a very bold and cool design with a fun walkable green roof that channels the rain and snow and more. Appropriately sited in Vancouver!
lynxthoughts.com/2026/09/07/a...
lynxthoughts.com/2026/09/07/a...
Architecture Monday
I don’t often do unbuilt projects here, but this competition winner totally caught my eye. In a city not already unfamiliar with green roofs, this proposed mass timber building figuratively channe…
lynxthoughts.com
September 8, 2026 at 3:11 AM
#Architecture Moment: This one's not built but a very bold and cool design with a fun walkable green roof that channels the rain and snow and more. Appropriately sited in Vancouver!
lynxthoughts.com/2026/09/07/a...
lynxthoughts.com/2026/09/07/a...
#Mindfulness Moment: Quoting a great set of posts by Artemis on Mastodon (I couldn't find if they had a bsky) that starts with a powerful punch and doesn't let up:
lynxthoughts.com/2026/08/11/p...
lynxthoughts.com/2026/08/11/p...
Philosophy Tuesday
“It’s not that you can’t understand, love, trust, & accept yourself. It’s that abusers & oppressors on all levels want to avoid that outcome at all costs. Self-love …
lynxthoughts.com
August 12, 2026 at 2:28 AM
#Mindfulness Moment: Quoting a great set of posts by Artemis on Mastodon (I couldn't find if they had a bsky) that starts with a powerful punch and doesn't let up:
lynxthoughts.com/2026/08/11/p...
lynxthoughts.com/2026/08/11/p...
#Architecture Moment: Every now and then there's a building that just grabs me for reasons that, at least at first, isn't entirely clear. :)
Also, this is a great example of a "simple" building that shows how it still can be great design!
lynxthoughts.com/2026/08/10/a...
Also, this is a great example of a "simple" building that shows how it still can be great design!
lynxthoughts.com/2026/08/10/a...
Architecture Monday
Oh wow, this building has a certain compelling je ne sais quoi for me… or perhaps I should say un cierto no sé qué, given it’s in Spain. It’s a new community hall that manages it…
lynxthoughts.com
August 11, 2026 at 3:19 AM
#Architecture Moment: Every now and then there's a building that just grabs me for reasons that, at least at first, isn't entirely clear. :)
Also, this is a great example of a "simple" building that shows how it still can be great design!
lynxthoughts.com/2026/08/10/a...
Also, this is a great example of a "simple" building that shows how it still can be great design!
lynxthoughts.com/2026/08/10/a...
After about a year and a half since I updated the first example for my Aurora RPG Engine, I'm excited to release the next one! Example B is geared towards narrative playstyles and rich storylines:
drive.google.com/file/d/1psDg...
#ttrpg
drive.google.com/file/d/1psDg...
#ttrpg
August 7, 2026 at 2:05 AM
After about a year and a half since I updated the first example for my Aurora RPG Engine, I'm excited to release the next one! Example B is geared towards narrative playstyles and rich storylines:
drive.google.com/file/d/1psDg...
#ttrpg
drive.google.com/file/d/1psDg...
#ttrpg
#Mindfulness Moment: This phrase came to me in one of those flashes of randomness, but it landed true and with a dose of cosmic laughter of recognition, so I had to dive into it. :)
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lynxthoughts.com/2026/08/04/p...
Philosophy Tuesday
I’m sure you’ve all heard of the classic horror trope of, “The call is coming from inside the house.” And even if you’re not familiar with it from its horror roots, at least you’ve likely heard it…
lynxthoughts.com
August 5, 2026 at 2:22 AM
#Mindfulness Moment: This phrase came to me in one of those flashes of randomness, but it landed true and with a dose of cosmic laughter of recognition, so I had to dive into it. :)
lynxthoughts.com/2026/08/04/p...
lynxthoughts.com/2026/08/04/p...
#Mindfulness Moment: I'm still floored by that episode of What Now that featured Brené Brown. But atop all the illuminating things that came up, the type of conversation they were having on the show also really stuck out for me. Because it was a true exchange:
lynxthoughts.com/2026/07/28/p...
lynxthoughts.com/2026/07/28/p...
Philosophy Tuesday
There’s more great stuff in the What Now with Trevor Noah episode with Brené Brown that I touched on last week, but what also got me about it was the kind of conversation it was. Because it was tha…
lynxthoughts.com
July 29, 2026 at 2:10 AM
#Mindfulness Moment: I'm still floored by that episode of What Now that featured Brené Brown. But atop all the illuminating things that came up, the type of conversation they were having on the show also really stuck out for me. Because it was a true exchange:
lynxthoughts.com/2026/07/28/p...
lynxthoughts.com/2026/07/28/p...
#Architecture Moment: I love snow. So houses that embrace the snowy landscape, both by burring itself into it and also framing it as the main feature in every room? Yeah, I dig it. (Pun most certainly intended :)
lynxthoughts.com/2026/07/27/a...
lynxthoughts.com/2026/07/27/a...
Architecture Monday
One of the current things I miss about my current locale is the snow. Living in snow. The embrace of snow. The celebration of it. Tonight’s house has a simplicity to it in its concept and…
lynxthoughts.com
July 28, 2026 at 3:09 AM
#Architecture Moment: I love snow. So houses that embrace the snowy landscape, both by burring itself into it and also framing it as the main feature in every room? Yeah, I dig it. (Pun most certainly intended :)
lynxthoughts.com/2026/07/27/a...
lynxthoughts.com/2026/07/27/a...
#Mindfulness Moment: Brené Brown was on Trevor Noah's podcast & it was 2h of absolutely amazing/insightful conversation. I'll likely end up posting a bunch about it. To start: a powerful one on the false connection schadenfreude gives us in the face of loneliness:
lynxthoughts.com/2026/07/21/p...
lynxthoughts.com/2026/07/21/p...
Philosophy Tuesday
One of the fastest neuro-hacks to a feeling of belonging is collective schadenfreude. We are going to connect mutually in watching this person fail and fall. And it gives us all kinds of goosebumps…
lynxthoughts.com
July 22, 2026 at 2:51 AM
#Mindfulness Moment: Brené Brown was on Trevor Noah's podcast & it was 2h of absolutely amazing/insightful conversation. I'll likely end up posting a bunch about it. To start: a powerful one on the false connection schadenfreude gives us in the face of loneliness:
lynxthoughts.com/2026/07/21/p...
lynxthoughts.com/2026/07/21/p...
#Architecture Moment: Another neat school, with both smooth detailing and a rough and tumble vibe, and green design to boot. :)
lynxthoughts.com/2026/07/20/a...
lynxthoughts.com/2026/07/20/a...
Architecture Monday
Another nice school tonight, awash in wood and windows and waves (in both the roof shape and the solar panels that adorn it). Designed as three wings, two clad in wood and one clad in smooth white …
lynxthoughts.com
July 21, 2026 at 2:51 AM
#Architecture Moment: Another neat school, with both smooth detailing and a rough and tumble vibe, and green design to boot. :)
lynxthoughts.com/2026/07/20/a...
lynxthoughts.com/2026/07/20/a...
#Mindfulness Moment:
Sometimes, it isn't only that a/the scapegoat isn't to blame, but that it's actually a smokegoat
As in, a smoke bomb lobbed by the real culprit, trying to ninja their way out of our gaze & scrutiny
If we fall for it, not only do we get stuck in the suck, but we get _used_
Sometimes, it isn't only that a/the scapegoat isn't to blame, but that it's actually a smokegoat
As in, a smoke bomb lobbed by the real culprit, trying to ninja their way out of our gaze & scrutiny
If we fall for it, not only do we get stuck in the suck, but we get _used_
July 15, 2026 at 2:05 AM
#Mindfulness Moment:
Sometimes, it isn't only that a/the scapegoat isn't to blame, but that it's actually a smokegoat
As in, a smoke bomb lobbed by the real culprit, trying to ninja their way out of our gaze & scrutiny
If we fall for it, not only do we get stuck in the suck, but we get _used_
Sometimes, it isn't only that a/the scapegoat isn't to blame, but that it's actually a smokegoat
As in, a smoke bomb lobbed by the real culprit, trying to ninja their way out of our gaze & scrutiny
If we fall for it, not only do we get stuck in the suck, but we get _used_
#Architecture Moment: Some snow in July! :) A lovely funicular station in Switzerland:
lynxthoughts.com/2026/07/13/a...
lynxthoughts.com/2026/07/13/a...
Architecture Monday
Love this straightforward funicular station in the Swiss alps! A simple gable from the front, but with a large prominence in back that follow the angled path of the train into the station that crea…
lynxthoughts.com
July 14, 2026 at 3:55 AM
#Architecture Moment: Some snow in July! :) A lovely funicular station in Switzerland:
lynxthoughts.com/2026/07/13/a...
lynxthoughts.com/2026/07/13/a...
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I watched Citizen Vigilante thinking I would do a quick, 2nd channel review, but the movie was so much stranger than I thought that I just had to make a proper video about it. You can watch it now on Nebula, including an exclusive 16-minute postscript: nebula.tv/videos/lsoo-...
Like Stories of Old — I Watched MAGA's Favorite Movie
The far right has a new favorite movie, and I watched it so that you don't have to.
nebula.tv
July 9, 2026 at 9:55 PM
I watched Citizen Vigilante thinking I would do a quick, 2nd channel review, but the movie was so much stranger than I thought that I just had to make a proper video about it. You can watch it now on Nebula, including an exclusive 16-minute postscript: nebula.tv/videos/lsoo-...
#Mindfulness Moment: I come back to the distinction between thoughting & "actual" thinking time & time again...because it's such a powerful & useful distinction (& that takes, for me at least, lots of mindfulness to keep in practice). So here's another one tonight!
lynxthoughts.com/2026/07/07/p...
lynxthoughts.com/2026/07/07/p...
Philosophy Tuesday
“You are allowed to think about the worst possible scenario. But you got to go out there and do something about it.” — Jalen Brunson In that great way of separating out our though…
lynxthoughts.com
July 8, 2026 at 2:19 AM
#Mindfulness Moment: I come back to the distinction between thoughting & "actual" thinking time & time again...because it's such a powerful & useful distinction (& that takes, for me at least, lots of mindfulness to keep in practice). So here's another one tonight!
lynxthoughts.com/2026/07/07/p...
lynxthoughts.com/2026/07/07/p...
#Architecture Moment: When I was a wee architect, I saw a lecture by the founder of this young firm... that had just won the competition for the Library of Alexandria. (!) But it's this project that really stuck with me & more so its story of craft & collaboration: lynxthoughts.com/2026/07/06/a...
Architecture Monday
Back in the earliest of the aughts, architecture lectures were held up in SF at the Yerba Buena theatre. One of the first (perhaps even the first) I went to was by a firm I hadn’t heard of b…
lynxthoughts.com
July 7, 2026 at 3:09 AM
#Architecture Moment: When I was a wee architect, I saw a lecture by the founder of this young firm... that had just won the competition for the Library of Alexandria. (!) But it's this project that really stuck with me & more so its story of craft & collaboration: lynxthoughts.com/2026/07/06/a...
#Mindfulness Moment: On incentives, and not just the monetary ones... social, attention, and more.
lynxthoughts.com/2026/06/30/p...
lynxthoughts.com/2026/06/30/p...
Philosophy Tuesday
“Show me the incentive and I’ll show you the outcome.” — Charlie Munger While clearly expressed as an absolute for literary effect, I think there’s a lot there as an excellent window an…
lynxthoughts.com
July 1, 2026 at 2:54 AM
#Mindfulness Moment: On incentives, and not just the monetary ones... social, attention, and more.
lynxthoughts.com/2026/06/30/p...
lynxthoughts.com/2026/06/30/p...
#Architecture Moment: Modernist Classic from Tokyo this evening, a spot I didn't visit when I visited but it's still on my list. :)
lynxthoughts.com/2026/06/29/a...
lynxthoughts.com/2026/06/29/a...
Architecture Monday
This one is a bit of a classic, having been built in the 60s. And it has a certain showmanship that may rub some the wrong way, but I am definitively a fan of it when it’s deployed well! A c…
lynxthoughts.com
June 30, 2026 at 3:12 AM
#Architecture Moment: Modernist Classic from Tokyo this evening, a spot I didn't visit when I visited but it's still on my list. :)
lynxthoughts.com/2026/06/29/a...
lynxthoughts.com/2026/06/29/a...
#Mindfulness Moment: Just working it out as I typed this time... musing about those times where we make a poor-outcome choice and yet somehow are fine about it. Maybe it's because we are satisfied with the process that lead us to that choice? Hmmm....
lynxthoughts.com/2026/06/23/p...
lynxthoughts.com/2026/06/23/p...
Philosophy Tuesday
This may seem like an odd one… but there’s this interesting thing that I bet many of us have experienced where we made some poor-outcome choice and yet somehow are at peace or at least …
lynxthoughts.com
June 24, 2026 at 3:09 AM
#Mindfulness Moment: Just working it out as I typed this time... musing about those times where we make a poor-outcome choice and yet somehow are fine about it. Maybe it's because we are satisfied with the process that lead us to that choice? Hmmm....
lynxthoughts.com/2026/06/23/p...
lynxthoughts.com/2026/06/23/p...
#Architecture Moment: I love bold buildings. I also love subtle buildings that blend ever so perfectly into their milieu, here being a town hugging a verdant hillside. :)
lynxthoughts.com/2026/06/22/a...
lynxthoughts.com/2026/06/22/a...
Architecture Monday
What I really appreciate about this new music/performance hall is how well it achieves its aim to become a part of the landscape. Already low slung and stepping down and becoming an amphitheatre n…
lynxthoughts.com
June 23, 2026 at 3:47 AM
#Architecture Moment: I love bold buildings. I also love subtle buildings that blend ever so perfectly into their milieu, here being a town hugging a verdant hillside. :)
lynxthoughts.com/2026/06/22/a...
lynxthoughts.com/2026/06/22/a...
As I work on my next release for it, here's an online die roller for my Aurora RPG Engine! Coded up by a friend, it's fully armed & operational, with 1/2 die increments, auto calculation of Margin of Success or Failure, and the option to add dice after a roll. #ttrpg
cogspace.github.io/aurolla/
cogspace.github.io/aurolla/
June 19, 2026 at 3:08 AM
As I work on my next release for it, here's an online die roller for my Aurora RPG Engine! Coded up by a friend, it's fully armed & operational, with 1/2 die increments, auto calculation of Margin of Success or Failure, and the option to add dice after a roll. #ttrpg
cogspace.github.io/aurolla/
cogspace.github.io/aurolla/
#Mindfulness Moment:
“Don’t think about making art
just get it done.
Let everyone else decide
whether it’s good or bad,
whether they love it or hate it.
While they’re deciding,
*make even more art.*”
—Andy Warhol
“Don’t think about making art
just get it done.
Let everyone else decide
whether it’s good or bad,
whether they love it or hate it.
While they’re deciding,
*make even more art.*”
—Andy Warhol
June 17, 2026 at 2:47 AM
#Mindfulness Moment:
“Don’t think about making art
just get it done.
Let everyone else decide
whether it’s good or bad,
whether they love it or hate it.
While they’re deciding,
*make even more art.*”
—Andy Warhol
“Don’t think about making art
just get it done.
Let everyone else decide
whether it’s good or bad,
whether they love it or hate it.
While they’re deciding,
*make even more art.*”
—Andy Warhol