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Doug Belshaw
@dougbelshaw.com
"If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again." (Groucho Marx)

Founding member of We Are Open Co-op. General man about town.

🟡 Some capacity for new projects
November 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 7:35 AM
November 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
November 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Life is not a series of well-designed problems: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2025/11/08/life-is-not-a-series.html
November 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 9:53 AM
November 6, 2025 at 9:40 AM
It's worth considering the glass to be half-full: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2025/11/06/its-worth-considering-the-glass.html
November 6, 2025 at 9:03 AM
My existing, extremely minimalist, home page is at dougbelshaw.com

I'm thinking of replacing it with this. What do you reckon?
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The geopolitics of the post-oil age is going to be interestingly different.: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2025/11/01/the-geopolitics-of-the-postoil.html
November 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Monocultures are perilous not just in agriculture, but in software distribution as well.: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2025/11/01/monocultures-are-perilous-not-just.html
November 1, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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October 30, 2025 at 10:48 AM
We can't control what life throws at us, but we can choose how we deal with the hand we're dealt: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2025/10/28/we-cant-control-what-life.html
October 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
October 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Everything you'd need to start exploring fungi and computing could be as small as a compost heap: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2025/10/27/everything-youd-need-to-start.html
October 27, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Without being Luddites, some of my dearest friends reject certain elements of modern technology in order to protect their innate abilities.: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2025/10/24/without-being-luddites-some-of.html
October 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
October 24, 2025 at 9:24 AM
I love it; I hate it; I resent that I need it. I wouldn’t miss it if it vanished—but of course, I also would.: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2025/10/24/i-love-it-i-hate.html
October 24, 2025 at 6:24 AM
What is still human in our lives lingers on in the interstices of a vast inhuman mechanism: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2025/10/24/what-is-still-human-in.html
October 24, 2025 at 6:01 AM
This is coming from someone who’s allegedly running a company that’s building a tool that should usher in a new era where computers will replace most of human work: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2025/10/23/this-is-coming-from-someone.html
October 23, 2025 at 7:26 AM