Thursday, September 28, 2023 →
Day 28: Workout
Microposts
Thursday, September 28, 2023 →
In Search of Lost Time, by Tom Vanderbilt is delightful
Yet the more precisely time is measured, the less it starts to feel like time at all.
Wednesday, September 27, 2023 →
This didn’t last long. When using Apple Podcasts to listen to Apple Music radio, you don’t see album art and can’t easily add music to your library. Discovery is my main use case. So, though I like the idea of this integration, in practice it doesn’t suit my needs 🎵
Wednesday, September 27, 2023 →
Day 27: Embrace
Day 26: Beverage
Day 25: Flare
Day 24: Belt
Finished reading: The Rationalist’s Guide to the Galaxy by Tom Chivers is an entertaining and interesting book about AI risks and the Rationalists that worry about them 📚
🏃♂️ Starting to see the Fall colour changes on today’s run. Powered by PUP and Rage Against the Machine
Saturday, September 23, 2023 →
Starting Fall with a pumpkin ale from Lake of Bays brewery
Saturday, September 23, 2023 →
Day 23: A day in the life. Enjoying the nice Fall weather outside with a good book
Day 22: Road
🚴♂️ Likely the last ride of the season with this crew. Getting too dark! Unfortunately we had to end early, thanks to a flat tire.
Sunrises are a nice benefit of getting up early
Thursday, September 21, 2023 →
Day 21: Fall
Wednesday, September 20, 2023 →
Day 20: Disruption
Day 19: Edge
GPS Watch? No Thanks. Top Runners Are Ditching the Data.
For many, GPS watches are a remarkably useful training tool. But there are other runners, including world-class runners like Jacobs, who have a hard time understanding the fuss. To them, a smorgasbord of data is more hindrance than help. And get this: Some runners don’t wear watches at all.
I’m sympathetic to this idea. In general, I’m trying to stop obsessing over my health and fitness data (tough for this data analyst to do). That said, I’m far from an elite runner. So, I don’t have enough body awareness to intuitively know my pace zones and find realtime data on my performance helpful for making sure my runs are effective.
Perhaps more importantly, my watch is also my source of music and a way to keep my family updated when I’m out on a long run.
I don’t expect to be running out the door without my watch anytime soon.
Day 18: Fabric
Day 17: Intense
Interesting guest column by Reg Whitaker in Wesley Wark’s National Security and Intelligence Newsletter
The leading physicists mobilized in the Manhattan Project were on the one hand applying intelligence in the sense of the same pure quest for knowledge that had driven the discoveries of scientists from Galileo to Einstein. On the other hand as a military scheme, the Manhattan Project was an intelligence problem in the sense of secrets that had to be protected from enemy eyes, or indeed from any eyes, friendly or unfriendly, from outside the charmed circle of the initiated and security-cleared.
🏃♂️ Today’s run was an endurance run with a progressive fast finish. I tried breathing through my nose for the first hour to keep things slow.
Powered by Billy Talent and Beastie Boys
📺 I enjoyed Foundation Season 2. A good part of that enjoyment requires letting go of the original books and embracing this reinterpretation
Saturday, September 16, 2023 →
Finished reading: The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler has so many fascinating ideas about consciousness, intelligence, and language embedded in a good story about a community of octopuses. I really enjoyed this one📚
Saturday, September 16, 2023 →
Day 16: Oof!
Day 15: Red
Thursday, September 14, 2023 →
Day 14: Statue
Wednesday, September 13, 2023 →
Day 13: Glowing
Day 12: Panic
Day 11: Retrospect
