Kannik
@kannik.bsky.social
A polymath lynx who finds the world fascinating and lives in possibility.
#Mindfulness:
You are whole and complete
You always have been
And you always will be
You may not experience it
And you may sometimes take actions that don’t reflect it
But it doesn’t change that fact
There are just barriers to your experiencing it
Welcome to the New Year
Whole and Complete
You are whole and complete
You always have been
And you always will be
You may not experience it
And you may sometimes take actions that don’t reflect it
But it doesn’t change that fact
There are just barriers to your experiencing it
Welcome to the New Year
Whole and Complete
January 7, 2026 at 3:31 AM
#Mindfulness:
You are whole and complete
You always have been
And you always will be
You may not experience it
And you may sometimes take actions that don’t reflect it
But it doesn’t change that fact
There are just barriers to your experiencing it
Welcome to the New Year
Whole and Complete
You are whole and complete
You always have been
And you always will be
You may not experience it
And you may sometimes take actions that don’t reflect it
But it doesn’t change that fact
There are just barriers to your experiencing it
Welcome to the New Year
Whole and Complete
#Architecture Moment: Not quite hanging by a thread, but more so supported by a needle? Also turns out that's not quite it, but it's one beautiful bridge gallery with an ancient building technique holding it all up. :)
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Architecture Monday
Bridging between two existing buildings to provide seamless access across a road, this marvelous bridge and gallery brings back to life an ancient building technique to create both this wild sculpt…
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January 6, 2026 at 3:55 AM
#Architecture Moment: Not quite hanging by a thread, but more so supported by a needle? Also turns out that's not quite it, but it's one beautiful bridge gallery with an ancient building technique holding it all up. :)
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#Mindfulness Moment: I've spoken a bunch about the power of apology, and I love how this speaks to how much we could as a society value them more. I doubly love how this also looks at its intersection with the legal system and with those who profit from it:
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Philosophy Tuesday
“I think an apology would’ve actually done a lot. I wouldn’t have really needed, frankly, that much. But I would’ve felt that if [they] had acknowledged what had happened as…
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December 17, 2025 at 3:31 AM
#Mindfulness Moment: I've spoken a bunch about the power of apology, and I love how this speaks to how much we could as a society value them more. I doubly love how this also looks at its intersection with the legal system and with those who profit from it:
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lynxthoughts.com/2025/12/16/p...
#Architecture Moment: Sometimes wonky angles feels like wonky angles. Sometimes, combined with a courtyard atrium, a city block, and much walkways and stairs, it feels just fine (and neat!) :)
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Architecture Monday
From that cool overhead shot, almost the whole concept of this communal living apartment can be read, with its combo of a central courtyard shaft and slices all on wild diagonals to create a shared…
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December 16, 2025 at 3:58 AM
#Architecture Moment: Sometimes wonky angles feels like wonky angles. Sometimes, combined with a courtyard atrium, a city block, and much walkways and stairs, it feels just fine (and neat!) :)
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#Mindfulness Moment: I do love analogies. It's true. So here's one about creating possibilities and the work it sometimes takes to fully live into them. :)
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Philosophy Tuesday
Not all new possibilities lock in so immediately that the first time a situation arises that tests the possibility do we find ourselves fully embodying it and living a whole new experience, as well…
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December 10, 2025 at 3:35 AM
#Mindfulness Moment: I do love analogies. It's true. So here's one about creating possibilities and the work it sometimes takes to fully live into them. :)
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#Architecture Moment: Classic Art Nouveau Greenhouse + Modernism Influences = cool new botanical garden :)
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Architecture Monday
This one is fun, bringing inspiration from Art Nouveau greenhouses and exhibition halls (like the Grand Palais) and adding a touch of modern forms (reminding me a bit of Ando’s Fort Worth Mus…
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December 9, 2025 at 4:01 AM
#Architecture Moment: Classic Art Nouveau Greenhouse + Modernism Influences = cool new botanical garden :)
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#Mindfulness Moment:
often, the difference between
a student and the master
is that the master has failed
(and worked to learn from it)
more often
than the student has yet tried
often, the difference between
a student and the master
is that the master has failed
(and worked to learn from it)
more often
than the student has yet tried
December 3, 2025 at 5:21 AM
#Mindfulness Moment:
often, the difference between
a student and the master
is that the master has failed
(and worked to learn from it)
more often
than the student has yet tried
often, the difference between
a student and the master
is that the master has failed
(and worked to learn from it)
more often
than the student has yet tried
#Mindfulness Moment: I love to talk about practicing things. But haven't talked much about practice itself. So let's do that! With a side order of "eating bitter." ;)
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Philosophy Tuesday
While this dovetails nicely with the mindset of “eating bitter”, here is an perspective to adopt that might both be more approachable and also be a good first step: Embrace practice. Whether in Kun…
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November 26, 2025 at 3:05 AM
#Mindfulness Moment: I love to talk about practicing things. But haven't talked much about practice itself. So let's do that! With a side order of "eating bitter." ;)
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lynxthoughts.com/2025/11/25/p...
#Architecture Moment: I am a sucker for "box in a box" type projects, especially adaptive reuse ones. :)
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Architecture Monday
For whatever reason, I am a sucker for “box in the box” type projects. Even above and beyond being a fan of adaptive reuse, as these typically are. And this one even goes so far as to…
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November 25, 2025 at 4:41 AM
#Architecture Moment: I am a sucker for "box in a box" type projects, especially adaptive reuse ones. :)
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#Mindfulness Moment: About the double joy and double power that comes from creating and harnessing ways of being in our lives. :)
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Philosophy Tuesday
One of our most direct ways of accessing new possibilities is through taking on and embodying ways of being. They don’t have to be totally new ways of being, and they don’t have to be novel ones e…
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November 19, 2025 at 3:57 AM
#Mindfulness Moment: About the double joy and double power that comes from creating and harnessing ways of being in our lives. :)
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#Architecture moment: A little relaxation tonight? How about a lovely floating sauna, in among the Nordic pines, of course. :)
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Architecture Monday
A little relaxing sauna for this evening. Built on a farm by local students to serve both visitors and the community, floating on a local pond (which serves as a natural plunge pool!) surrounded b…
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November 18, 2025 at 3:59 AM
#Architecture moment: A little relaxation tonight? How about a lovely floating sauna, in among the Nordic pines, of course. :)
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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!
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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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#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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#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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#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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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…
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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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#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…
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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…
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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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#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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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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#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...