After an unexpectedly early arrival of summer weather in Munich, things have predictably regressed to the mean. Grey skies, rain, snow, and—as I write this, hail—means not feeling guilty about spending the day indoors reading.

Recently finished: Unflattening · ‘Concrete’ Manipulatives, Concrete Ideas · Personal Distributed Computing: The Alto and Ethernet hardware and Butler Lampson’s companion paper on the Alto software · Problem Solving and Situated Cognition · Supersizing the Mind.

Still reading: The City & the City · Made to Stick · Bringing Reggio Emilia Home

Just discovered: Deb Chachra’s Metafoundry newsletter (via The Blissfully Slow World of Internet Newsletters)