Kannik
@kannik.bsky.social
A polymath lynx who finds the world fascinating and lives in possibility.
It’s been 20+ years since I last released some alternate #BattleTech rules… not sure how this one will be received, but let’s go for it!
drive.google.com/file/d/188ke...
drive.google.com/file/d/188ke...
November 14, 2025 at 3:51 AM
It’s been 20+ years since I last released some alternate #BattleTech rules… not sure how this one will be received, but let’s go for it!
drive.google.com/file/d/188ke...
drive.google.com/file/d/188ke...
#Mindfulness Moment: More about how great (and how much progress) it is to notice when something is "off" or "not right" by looking at the frying pan that (often) smacks us when we create new possibilities and aim to embody new ways of being. :)
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Philosophy Tuesday
Riffing off this post a few weeks ago about how recognizing that something is “off” is, perhaps counterintuitively, a good thing, here’s a further bit about how it shows up when we create new possi…
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November 12, 2025 at 3:15 AM
#Mindfulness Moment: More about how great (and how much progress) it is to notice when something is "off" or "not right" by looking at the frying pan that (often) smacks us when we create new possibilities and aim to embody new ways of being. :)
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lynxthoughts.com/2025/11/11/p...
#Architecture moment: Another great community school, built with cool design even where $$ is not flowing. Everyone is worthy of good architecture. :)
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Architecture Monday
Another great school built for a local community, by the local community, and using what’s in the community. And while the means in the community are limited, it’s not been relegated to a dank box…
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November 11, 2025 at 4:03 AM
#Architecture moment: Another great community school, built with cool design even where $$ is not flowing. Everyone is worthy of good architecture. :)
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lynxthoughts.com/2025/11/10/a...
#Mindfulness Moment: While we often view biases as only influencing us to do harmful/hurtful things, there's also positive biases that influence us to do helpful/nice things towards certain groups. Yet they're still biases & when hidden can still lead us astray. :)
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Philosophy Tuesday
I was having this conversation with someone recently about “positive biases,” which reminded me of this post from years ago. So many years ago that it was before these regular Tuesday posts, and a…
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November 5, 2025 at 4:02 AM
#Mindfulness Moment: While we often view biases as only influencing us to do harmful/hurtful things, there's also positive biases that influence us to do helpful/nice things towards certain groups. Yet they're still biases & when hidden can still lead us astray. :)
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lynxthoughts.com/2025/11/04/p...
#Architecture Moment: Another FLW building tonight, but in a different vein -- what I like to call "what amazing things you can do with humble concrete block". :)
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Architecture Monday
Mäntylä was designed and built around the same time as the Kentuk Knob house I posted about a few weeks ago. Though about the same size, this one was intended to of the more “affordable̶…
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November 4, 2025 at 5:03 AM
#Architecture Moment: Another FLW building tonight, but in a different vein -- what I like to call "what amazing things you can do with humble concrete block". :)
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lynxthoughts.com/2025/11/03/a...
#Mindfulness Moment: For both our own power and peace, it can be useful to take a moment to assess what are the (actual) stakes :)
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Philosophy Tuesday
Sometimes it can be worth asking, “What are the actual stakes here?” Worth asking it in a way to help us get present and mindful and to ground ourselves to what’s so: Do I need to solve this right…
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October 29, 2025 at 2:23 AM
#Mindfulness Moment: For both our own power and peace, it can be useful to take a moment to assess what are the (actual) stakes :)
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lynxthoughts.com/2025/10/28/p...
#Architecture Moment: Let's go on a fascinating journey through the 100+ year history of this building that while it seems it ended up where it started (with a bit of polish and a new glass topper) but is instead one of many changes and a near complete rebuild. :)
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lynxthoughts.com/2025/10/27/a...
Architecture Monday
Something a bit different tonight. This looks like a “simple” restoration plus addition, but it’s not quite that. That old bit? It’s a reconstruction. And a reconstruction based almost entirely…
lynxthoughts.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:06 AM
#Architecture Moment: Let's go on a fascinating journey through the 100+ year history of this building that while it seems it ended up where it started (with a bit of polish and a new glass topper) but is instead one of many changes and a near complete rebuild. :)
lynxthoughts.com/2025/10/27/a...
lynxthoughts.com/2025/10/27/a...
#Mindfulness Moment: Astronauts talking about philosophy? Heck yeah! :) Specifically about integrity:
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Philosophy Tuesday
“It was this idea that you’re not a person who has integrity, you’re a person who strives to be in integrity. Sometimes you’re out of integrity, and sometimes you’re i…
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October 1, 2025 at 2:27 AM
#Mindfulness Moment: Astronauts talking about philosophy? Heck yeah! :) Specifically about integrity:
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lynxthoughts.com/2025/09/30/p...
#Architecture Moment: This isn't a house by Tadao Ando, and it is not in Japan (it's in Puerto Vallarta) but it is very much in the same vein, including an amazing quality of light. Plus I kinda dig the (what appears to be?) charred wood front gate! :)
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Architecture Monday
This is not a house by Tadao Ando, but it very much is in the same vein! Concrete, glass, sculptural, with a delightful interplay of rooms and circulation. It also adds a bunch of courtyards and z…
lynxthoughts.com
September 30, 2025 at 3:45 AM
#Architecture Moment: This isn't a house by Tadao Ando, and it is not in Japan (it's in Puerto Vallarta) but it is very much in the same vein, including an amazing quality of light. Plus I kinda dig the (what appears to be?) charred wood front gate! :)
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lynxthoughts.com/2025/09/29/a...
#Mindfulness Moment: Look out, it's kung fu / tai chi storytelling time! You know where it will lead... :D
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Philosophy Tuesday
Sometimes, when we’re at kung fu/tai chi practice or I’m teaching a class, someone will say something to the effect of “ugh, that didn’t feel right” or “geez, that felt totally unconnected.” To whi…
lynxthoughts.com
September 24, 2025 at 2:27 AM
#Mindfulness Moment: Look out, it's kung fu / tai chi storytelling time! You know where it will lead... :D
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lynxthoughts.com/2025/09/23/p...
#Architecture Moment: Kentuck Knob. Funny name perhaps. Sweet FLW design (with one hilarious exception!)
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Architecture Monday
Nearby to Fallingwater there is another FLW house, known as Kentuck Knob after the knoll upon which it is built. There’s a lot of “Writian” elements here — the strong horizo…
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September 23, 2025 at 3:16 AM
#Architecture Moment: Kentuck Knob. Funny name perhaps. Sweet FLW design (with one hilarious exception!)
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lynxthoughts.com/2025/09/22/a...
What, yet another trip with yet more roller coaster riding? Yep! So here's another geeking-out coaster post. :)
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Coaster Wednesday
When this year started, I didn’t plan on it being “the year of the coaster” for me… but it seems that’s how it’s turned out! I recently hit up Six Flags Magic Mountain plus spent a lovely time at …
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September 18, 2025 at 3:03 AM
What, yet another trip with yet more roller coaster riding? Yep! So here's another geeking-out coaster post. :)
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lynxthoughts.com/2025/09/17/c...
#Mindfulness Moment: An adapted passage from the moving and amazing video essay by @tomvanderlinden.bsky.social, about living, our place in it, and the courageous choice we all get to make. It's more than well worth the watch!
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Philosophy Tuesday
“To give up like that, to detach yourself like that, is not even really an option to begin with. In some strange way, our existence, our agency, our presence and impact in this world, is not…
lynxthoughts.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:33 AM
#Mindfulness Moment: An adapted passage from the moving and amazing video essay by @tomvanderlinden.bsky.social, about living, our place in it, and the courageous choice we all get to make. It's more than well worth the watch!
lynxthoughts.com/2025/09/16/p...
lynxthoughts.com/2025/09/16/p...
#Architecture Moment: And also #Trains Moment, for when one is traveling, one should never miss a chance to visit the awesomeness that is grand train stations. :)
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Architecture Monday
When one is traveling, one does not miss a chance to visit great train stations! Washington DC Union station, in all it’s civic, Beaux-Arts glory! By D. H. Burnham & Company. I love the …
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September 16, 2025 at 3:03 AM
#Architecture Moment: And also #Trains Moment, for when one is traveling, one should never miss a chance to visit the awesomeness that is grand train stations. :)
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#Mindfulness Moment: Musing about expanding the 80% rule from just creative/making endeavours to the broader whole of living (and our self-judgements) :)
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Philosophy Tuesday
There’s another application we can make about the 80% rule – not just in when we’re creating or making things, but also for our everyday lives. Which is to apply that 80% rule to our own, sometime…
lynxthoughts.com
September 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
#Mindfulness Moment: Musing about expanding the 80% rule from just creative/making endeavours to the broader whole of living (and our self-judgements) :)
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lynxthoughts.com/2025/09/09/p...
#Architecture Moment: Some shots of the REACH and how the great lawn/green roof meets the buildings and vice versa. With a bonus cool interior that reminds me of something I designed while in arch school (always a surprise that :)
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Architecture Monday
The REACH at the Kennedy Center caught my attention when I was there. Love the expanse of lawn/green roof, and the way it both curves up to meet the buildings and how the buildings curve down to m…
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September 9, 2025 at 3:48 AM
#Architecture Moment: Some shots of the REACH and how the great lawn/green roof meets the buildings and vice versa. With a bonus cool interior that reminds me of something I designed while in arch school (always a surprise that :)
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lynxthoughts.com/2025/09/08/a...
#Mindfulness Moment:
Certainement qui est en droit de vous rendre absurde
est en droit de vous rendre injuste.
Une faculté de votre âme étant une fois tyrannisée,
toutes les autres facultés doivent l’être également.
Certainement qui est en droit de vous rendre absurde
est en droit de vous rendre injuste.
Une faculté de votre âme étant une fois tyrannisée,
toutes les autres facultés doivent l’être également.
August 27, 2025 at 2:22 AM
#Mindfulness Moment:
Certainement qui est en droit de vous rendre absurde
est en droit de vous rendre injuste.
Une faculté de votre âme étant une fois tyrannisée,
toutes les autres facultés doivent l’être également.
Certainement qui est en droit de vous rendre absurde
est en droit de vous rendre injuste.
Une faculté de votre âme étant une fois tyrannisée,
toutes les autres facultés doivent l’être également.
#Architecture Moment: So, yeah, I did indeed visit Fallingwater! I hadn't visited it since '93, when I was just a youngin in architecture school. Back then, I wondered if it could live up to the hype. Now, I wondered if it would live up to my memory. Yep. :)
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Architecture Monday
As hinted last week, I did indeed recently visit Falling Water. One cannot travel nearby and not visit what is perhaps the most famous house in North America (and one of the most famous around the…
lynxthoughts.com
August 26, 2025 at 3:35 AM
#Architecture Moment: So, yeah, I did indeed visit Fallingwater! I hadn't visited it since '93, when I was just a youngin in architecture school. Back then, I wondered if it could live up to the hype. Now, I wondered if it would live up to my memory. Yep. :)
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lynxthoughts.com/2025/08/25/a...
If your art of big cats includes lynxes... then you clearly must have great sophistication and taste. :)
(photo taken at Fallingwater)
(photo taken at Fallingwater)
August 21, 2025 at 2:43 AM
If your art of big cats includes lynxes... then you clearly must have great sophistication and taste. :)
(photo taken at Fallingwater)
(photo taken at Fallingwater)
#Mindfulness Moment: As an architect, who deals with a lot of life safety things every day, I can't help but love @hankgreen.bsky.social 's vid "No One Knows When They Don't Die". :)
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lynxthoughts.com/2025/08/19/p...
Philosophy Tuesday
That’s the cruelty of probability. It feels like a game of chance, but for the one who dies, it’s not a one in 330 shot. It’s 100%. And this is the weird, beautiful, thing about…
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August 20, 2025 at 2:29 AM
#Mindfulness Moment: As an architect, who deals with a lot of life safety things every day, I can't help but love @hankgreen.bsky.social 's vid "No One Knows When They Don't Die". :)
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lynxthoughts.com/2025/08/19/p...
#Architecture Moment: I recently got to visit and check out the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Like a landform carved by the eons, it's a lovely iteration of the "patented" Cardinal curves with very much its own identity. :)
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Architecture Monday
Some photos I took of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, looking all the like a geologic landform naturally carved by the winds and the water flows of time standing stoically i…
lynxthoughts.com
August 19, 2025 at 3:35 AM
#Architecture Moment: I recently got to visit and check out the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Like a landform carved by the eons, it's a lovely iteration of the "patented" Cardinal curves with very much its own identity. :)
lynxthoughts.com/2025/08/18/a...
lynxthoughts.com/2025/08/18/a...
If you want to read more roller coaster excitement sharing, I've got another post for you! :D Going over the highlight coasters of all of them I rode during my recent vacation.
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lynxthoughts.com/2025/08/13/c...
Coaster Wednesday
I got to ride a whack-tonne of coasters on my trip, and in the continued spirit of geeking out and excited sharing, here are my highlights! The Beast (at night) I intended the Beast to be the very …
lynxthoughts.com
August 14, 2025 at 3:56 AM
If you want to read more roller coaster excitement sharing, I've got another post for you! :D Going over the highlight coasters of all of them I rode during my recent vacation.
lynxthoughts.com/2025/08/13/c...
lynxthoughts.com/2025/08/13/c...
#Mindfulness Moment: Being wrong is bad enough, but being hoodwinked can lead to shame-spiraling-deleterious behavior. We can instead grant some space by getting that often we've (or others) been conned by professionals. (And yes, this seems quite topical...)
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lynxthoughts.com/2025/08/12/p...
Philosophy Tuesday
We, in general, don’t like being wrong.* But we dislike being hoodwinked more. So much so that in those cases shame spirals are super close at hand, often leading to doubling down or to being dis…
lynxthoughts.com
August 13, 2025 at 2:55 AM
#Mindfulness Moment: Being wrong is bad enough, but being hoodwinked can lead to shame-spiraling-deleterious behavior. We can instead grant some space by getting that often we've (or others) been conned by professionals. (And yes, this seems quite topical...)
lynxthoughts.com/2025/08/12/p...
lynxthoughts.com/2025/08/12/p...
#Architecture Moment: Is it a bold or is it a risky move, posting about a brutalist building? :P
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Architecture Monday
Brutalism – as with all art, some people like it, and some don’t. Also like all art, some of it is done well and stands the test of time, and others not so much. And sometimes it’s a mixed bag. T…
lynxthoughts.com
August 12, 2025 at 4:18 AM
#Architecture Moment: Is it a bold or is it a risky move, posting about a brutalist building? :P
lynxthoughts.com/2025/08/11/a...
lynxthoughts.com/2025/08/11/a...
If you want to read an experience sharing, geek-out, excited appreciation post about suspended roller coasters, well, I've got you covered! ;)
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lynxthoughts.com/2025/08/06/c...
Coaster Wednesday
Though it wasn’t a direct intent when I planned my trip, I have now, delightfully, gotten to ride on all four of the remaining Arrow suspended coasters in North America. (Unfortunately, I never go…
lynxthoughts.com
August 8, 2025 at 3:11 AM
If you want to read an experience sharing, geek-out, excited appreciation post about suspended roller coasters, well, I've got you covered! ;)
lynxthoughts.com/2025/08/06/c...
lynxthoughts.com/2025/08/06/c...