Colin Dismuke
Engineer and runner.
Perth, Western Australia. Everything I make lands here first: photographs, short notes and found links in the stream, longer essays, what I’m reading, a training log kept for the long view, and projects at every stage of finished. More about me.
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all streamDistilled down, his essay explores a simple truth: the things we experience as ordinary become sacred when we realize they are finite. Of course, not everything we experience is sacred, let alone enjoyable. ("There is salt to every strawberry," he writes.) But perhaps it's a good reminder that, if we're lucky enough to grow old, we should slow down and savor the sweetness of ordinary things—especially those we may someday wish we could experience just one more time.
Software engineering in 2026 means rapidly skimming and judging AI outputs rather than slow reflection, which risks eroding deep thinking skills. Writing in one's own words and reading dense non-fiction books, rather than delegating to LLMs, preserves the capacity for careful thought.
Landfill's reputation as environmentally disastrous doesn't survive scrutiny: reuse only beats single-use plastic after hundreds of washes, recycling contamination runs near 25%, and America has nearly a century of natural gas feedstock for making new bags anyway.
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