Wednesday, September 3, 2025 →
🚴 After very little riding over the past two months, nice to be back on the bike again. Starting up a new season of training
Microposts
🔗 Analog Office - Lumpers vs Splitters: How Many Paper Notebooks Do You Use at One Time?
Do you go with One Notebook to Rule Them All? Everything goes in there? Or do you have lots of different notebooks, each dedicated to very specific purposes?
Although I’m currently a lumper, I’ve been thinking of splitting out a daily journal notebook from my usual Field Notes that currently holds everything. The page size of the Field Notes can be a constraining with longer entries.
(Hat tip: Robert Breen)
The Strava integration with DayOne is pretty good. I usually manually add content on my activities into DayOne and this certainly helps simplify that.
The integration pulls in your title, notes, and any media, along with a map of the activity. I like that it also integrates with the iOS Journaling Suggestions.
The stats view is rather plain, but I appreciate that given the diversity of potential metrics, this is difficult to display in any other way, certainly for an experimental DayOne Labs feature.
🇨🇦 This is going to be a good read. These Sutherland Quarterly books have all been interesting.
We’ve reached the end of a glorious vacation. Always great to take some time off to recuperate and reflect. Back to the office tomorrow
🏃♂️ I’d planned for a longer run, but allergies kept me up too long last night
Finished reading: I really enjoyed Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. A clever and poignant story. Not sure why it took me so long to get around to reading it 📚
Finished reading: Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe is a fascinating and disturbing book about The Troubles in Ireland with interesting questions about political violence and accountability 📚
Finished reading: Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz is a delight 📚
A subtle enjoyment of being at a cottage is exposure to the weather. At home and the office it is too easy to not be affected. Whereas here we feel the heat, the wind, and the rain.
George has become a cottage dog
Finished reading: Superbloom by Nicholas Carr is a fascinating, alarming, and important book about how communication technology and social media are shaping society, mostly for the worse 📚
🏃♂️ Clouds on today’s run, instead of smoke. Much better
Finished reading: Canada by Richard Ford is remarkable. A good cottage read 📚
Time to get up!
Impressive repurposing of a dead tree here at the cottage we’re renting
🎧 A poignant memorial to a father in this episode of Strong Songs
Finished reading: I Am Ozzy by Ozzy Osbourne is quite the tour through rock and roll debauchery. Hard to understand how he got anything done. Great excuse to revisit the music though 📚
Finished reading: A Theory of Everyone by Michael Muthukrishna is a compelling and fascinating book about us, our culture, and our future. Any book like this has a unifying principle and I found this one’s focus on Energy Return on Investment intriguing. 📚
🏊♂️ The lake is the only cool place around here and I’m grateful for it
Finished reading: I really liked the premise of The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley: how would people adjust to being brought from the past into the present? Well written too. The last third was a bit too much standard time travel plot though, which detracted from the cool premise 📚
First week of vacation was a great success
🏃♂️ A sobering war memorial on today’s run. Likely a large proportion of the young men in the area are inscribed on it
George has settled into cottage life
Finished reading: Although it took two library loan periods, I enjoyed Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan 📚
Finished reading: The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles by Malka Older continues a fun series: solving mysteries on a gas giant planet. 📚
Finished reading: Tapper’s Day Off by Dan Moren is a fun short story. I’m glad to read more in this universe 📚
Finished reading: Despite having watched and really enjoyed Slow Horses on Apple TV, reading the first book by Mick Herron was still great fun. 📚
🏊♂️ Nice to be back in a lake
Finished reading: An Immense World by Ed Yong is a remarkable book. A fascinating exploration of the senses and what we can learn by trying to understand the perceptions of other animals📚