Hello! Привіт! I'm James (/d͡ʒeɪmz/) (also capjamesg). My pronouns are he/him/his. I live in Scotland. This is my blog.

I hope this website can bring a little bit of joy into your day.

Writings

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  • Published on under the Web category.

    My category pages are listed in the root directory of my website. For example, /coffee lists all of my blog posts in the Coffee category. This is an intentional choice: I want the URLs to category pages to be easy to say verbally (so I can share them in discussions!) and to type when I want to refer to them.

  • Creativity

    Published on under the Life category.

    “It’s hard to come up with ideas, and easy to give up” says Casey Newton, one of the characters in Tomorrowland says when asked why NASA is deconstructing a platform.

  • Coffee

    Published on under the Coffee category.

    James shared with me a coffee-themed episode of NHK World Japan’s Japanology series. In the episode, the host explores the history of coffee in Japan, going back hundreds of years.

  • Every big idea

    Published on under the Ideas category.

    “Every big idea starts small.”

  • Working on my confidence

    Published on under the Life category.

    At the top of my list of goals this year is to take better care of myself. In having those words, I then ask: what does it mean to take better care of myself? One of the lenses through which I have been thinking about this question recently is confidence. I want to be more confident, especially talking to people with whom I have not yet spoken.

  • Snow

    Published on under the Stories category.

    As I was getting ready for the day this morning, I looked up out the window and started to see snow fall. With the first glistening of a while flake that I saw falling from the skies, I was delighted. It’s snowing! The last few days have been feeling like spring, but February has a certain way of weaving between the weathers of winter and spring. Yesterday the sun peeked through the clouds. Today, the clouds are back, from which a delicate flurry of snow is presently falling.

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