Signs of spring
Microposts
Finished reading: Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell is a fun exploration of what makes things spread (ideas, behaviours, viruses). You know what you’re in for with Gladwell and this is a good follow up to The Tipping Point (25 years later!) 📚
Looking forward to the new season of Foundation!
A new feature in HealthFit shows that I’ve been pushing the training too hard. A better balance would be 80% in low aerobic. Although I feel okay, I’ll fit in more recovery runs and rides
🏃♂️ Recovery run
🚴 Cruising through Watopia this morning
🇨🇦 Great piece by Paul Wells: Solomon’s vote
The Liberals won. Mark Carney returns as prime minister. He’ll get to name another cabinet, meet Parliament for the first time, govern if he can. But the result forecloses cheap gloating in ways I find satisfying. Canada is a country that wishes things were easy. Maybe they aren’t meant to be easy.
Monarch Park. 📍
🏃♂️ Track Tuesday: 3x 1 mile + 3x 800m
Riverdale Collegiate Institute. 📍
🏊♂️ Mixed intervals
🇨🇦 Voted! Only took a few minutes
🏃♂️ Much better weather today than yesterday for a run
🍕 Pizza night
Finished reading: A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab is fun and a worthy book in a great series 📚
🚴 Despite the high winds, cold temperatures, and occasional rain, I was glad to get outside for today’s ride
🚴 Planning for the first outdoor bike ride of the season tomorrow. So, wandering the house trying to find all the gear. Note to self for next year: put it all together in a box for storage
George is enjoying this spring weather
🏃♂️ I don’t have a bike at the in-law’s. So out for another run
🏃♂️ Pool is closed today, so swapped in a long run
Finished reading: Orbital by Samantha Harvey is enthralling. Nothing much happens and yet so much about humanity, science, and our place in the universe is explored 📚
Finished reading: At the Trough: The Rise and Fall of Canada’s Corporate Welfare Bums by Laurent Carbonneau is a timely read, given Canada’s challenges 📚
🔗 The leader in your mirror by Paul Wells
We put too much burden on our leaders, and it makes them act silly. They shouldn’t be the perfect weapon of our vengeance, or the model of every virtue we admire but never quite get around to practicing. They don’t need to know everything. They can’t possibly get everything right on the first try, and we court trouble when we ask them to pretend they’ve managed the trick.
Riverdale Collegiate Institute. 📍
🏊♂️ Night swim
Finished reading: The Dog Sitter Detective Takes the Lead by Antony Johnston is a delightful murder mystery. Quite the cleanse after reading The Mercy of Gods 📚
Lights On by Annaka Harris is a fascinating “audio documentary” exploring the idea that consciousness is a fundamental building block of the universe, rather than emerging from complexity. Like Harris herself, I find the idea almost too wild and I’m not yet convinced. That said, the topic is fascinating and the documentary is really well done
Just posted on Six Colors: What to watch if you’re churning through Apple TV+
https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/04/what-to-watch-if-youre-churning-through-apple-tv/
A good list from Jason Snell. And, agreed that Bad Monkey was much better than expected.
Finished reading: The Mercy of Gods by James S. A. Corey is a really promising (though often bleak) start to a new sci-fi series about humans (presumably) overcoming an alien invasion 📚
I’m late to this, but glad to see Milo Beckman is back with the video series on Math Without Numbers
Currently reading: Taking a break from a seven-book streak of non-fiction to read The Mercy of Gods by James S. A. Corey 📚
🚴 After watching the dog slip and slide on the ice in the backyard, decided to swap today’s scheduled run for a Zwift ride
Finished reading: The Future of Us by Jay Ingram is a broad overview of how science and technology is affecting all parts of our lives from food, to transportation, and to health. I’ve read deeper books on the individual topics. This one provides the overview 📚