Finished reading: As a Canadian public servant, I’m not the target market for Scaling People by Claire Hughes Johnson. Nonetheless, I found the sections on managing teams and navigating conflict useful 📚
Microposts
12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge - Day 12: Home
❄️ 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge - Day 11: Feast
🎄Merry Christmas!
Wednesday, December 24, 2025 →
❄️ 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge - Day 10: Travel
Wednesday, December 24, 2025 →
🎶 II by Voices from the Lake is good for getting focused
🎶 Great version of A Dawning at 9:34
❄️ 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge - Day 9: Baking
❄️ 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge - Day 8: Grinch
Finished reading: Seemed inevitable that The Last Town by Blake Crouch would become a mostly straightforward action plot with lots of shooting. Still entertaining, though not nearly as good as the first book in the series. 📚
❄️ 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge - Day 7: Solstice
Finished reading: Sword & Citadel by Gene Wolfe continues a great series. I can’t understand how I lasted this long without reading these books. So many elements that are what I look for in a book: sci-fi, fantasy, and an unreliable narrator 📚
❄️ 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge - Day 6: Sparkle
❄️ 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge - Day 5: Beard
❄️ 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge - Day 4: Evergreen
Came home to a mess of needles, ornaments, and water. Our Christmas tree fell over! George looked very nervous, as if I would blame him for it. The tree is back up and tied to the wall with some rope. Hopefully that fixes it
Wednesday, December 17, 2025 →
❄️ 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge - Day 3: Firelight
❄️ 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge - Day 2: Cozy
❄️ 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge - Day 1: Frost
🖖 Star Trek: Khan was better than I expected with a nice character arc for Khan. The Vulcan Hello podcast has a nice review too
🏃♂️ I might regret this
🐶 George is a good pillow
And yet, despite being everywhere, RSS is somehow invisible. It’s the plumbing of the web: essential, reliable, and routinely underestimated. Most people who consume news this way don’t know they’re using RSS, and a surprising number of people who work in media don’t know they’re dependent on it for much of their reach and many of their partnerships.
Inspired by Ben Werdmuller‘s post, I’ve recommitted to Reeder. I’ve moved all of my feeds, newsletters, YouTube subscriptions, and podcasts into the app to have one place to get everything. Reeder has a great, clean interface that integrates all of these sources well.
🏃♂️ Ice and snow on today’s run made for a good ankle workout
Finished reading: I enjoyed Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky. An imaginative mix of ecology, evolution, and sociology📚
🎶 David Byrne’s Tiny Desk Concert is great fun
🍕 Cooking pizza while it snows
Finished reading: Medieval Horizons by Ian Mortimer makes a good case that the Middle Ages were a dynamic period that made many contributions to our modern world 📚
🐶 Bacon please
🏃♂️ Although the novelty will wear off quickly, fun to have a proper winter run
