The Daily Planet is my habit of posting short daily updates that survey what's happening on the planet, then pulling them together once a week as The Weekly Planet. It lets a wide-angle scan of the news sit beside slow reading of systems thinkers.
How the word moved
The name first shows up in May 2022, as the title of an essay. In August 2025 it became a working method: daily posts, then a weekly synthesis that I called The Weekly Planet. I often write to read, and I started this round while I was writing my way through Herman Kahn.
In my words
"I did that by posting daily updates (I call these The Daily Planet), and today's, essay is a synthesis of those Daily Planets."
from Bhumics: The Weekly Planet #1, 25 Aug 2025
Related
- Inherited from Herman Kahn - I was writing to read Kahn when the method took shape.
- Related Writing for Reading - The Daily Planet is writing to read, done every day.
- Related Metabolism Wars - That's one of the things a week of Daily Planets turned into.