🏃♂️ At 335m, my watch tells me this is the largest elevation gain of the year
Microposts
Finished reading: Aubrey McKee by Alex Pugsley is a delight. Great writing and quirky characters, along with nostalgia for my own childhood. Recommended via Paul Wells 📚
Thanks to my sister for bringing these whiskeys from the Elora Distilling Company. I’m starting with the Royal Amber
Vacation continues to go well
🔗 Don’t Become a Productivity Tourist - by JA Westenberg
Because the only metric by which you can actually judge a productivity system is this: did it allow you to produce something or not?
A good reminder for those of us that spend too much time adjusting our systems
🏊♂️ The lake was like glass for this afternoon’s swim
My daughter captured me in full cottage vacation mode: a beer in one hand and book in the other
🎶 After hearing my son and nephew rehearsing Is What It Is by Chance Peña, I’ve been a bit obsessed with it. They were practicing for an upcoming campfire concert at their summer camp, where there was recently a tragedy. Watching the campers comfort each other through the tragedy seemed resonant with the song’s lyrics
Finished reading: The Justice of Kings by Richard Swan is a compelling story about justice and the law. A great start to the series 📚
Finished reading: To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis is a fun and zany time-travel mystery. Although I enjoyed the story, it does get a bit frenetic 📚
🏃♂️ Misty morning run
Another good day at the cottage
Pizza on the BBQ
Lined that up surprisingly well, if accidentally
🏊♂️ Swimming in a Haliburton lake is so much nicer than a Toronto pool
Finished reading: Surprising no one, Alias Grace A Novel by Margaret Atwood is very well written📚
Getting dinner ready with my sous chef
🎵 Song of the week for my daughter — Midnight Rider by The Allman Brothers Band from Idlewild South (Deluxe Edition). An easy-going song about freedom and resilience
After experimenting with many different apps and approaches, I’m back to integrating everything into Reeder. I like the clean, consistent aesthetic, easy gestures for actions, and ease of integrating diverse sources.
🏃♂️ I’m glad to have finished this run before the big thunderstorm rolled through
Turned into a nice day
Finished reading: Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway is a fun noir detective mystery📚
Finished reading: The Casino Shift by Brian Goldman is a rather sobering look at the poor state of emergency medicine in Canada. Seems like a disaster waiting to happen through neglect, partly motivated by ERs’ amazing ability to adapt and get by with less, until they can’t anymore 📚
Finished reading: The Will of the Many by James Islington was a fun read: think Roman senators in Hunger Games at Hogwarts 📚
George is delighted to be back in a lake
Much better weather today 😁
🏃♂️ At least running in the rain keeps the heat down
Arrived to our cottage vacation in a torrential thunderstorm! That’s okay though. Still better than being at work and the storm won’t last
🎧 A fun Mindscape interview with Luis Bettencourt on scaling laws in cities. Bettencourt inspired some of my research on pollinator networks. So, this was also nostalgic
🎵 Song of the week for my daughter — Angeles by Elliott Smith from Either/Or. Although Waltz, No. 2 (XO) is a slightly better song, I think Angeles is a better first listen song.