Thursday, September 16, 2021 →
I’ll be hanging out here for the next few days
Microposts
Wednesday, September 15, 2021 →
Surprising no one here, I’ve realized that I spend far more time thinking about systems for my notes than in actually taking notes.
To add some public accountability, I’m declaring that for the next 3 months I’m only using Apple Notes. This will help me develop a good note taking habit, while also identifying my use cases for later optimization.
Although I’ve been thinking about this for a while, the recent Tools for Thought interview with @AndySylvester and @Chrisaldrich really crystalized the idea.
Advanced voting 🇨🇦
A happy 97th birthday to my wonderful grandmother! Such an inspiration to us all
Back to school with a mixture of excitement and nervousness
I certainly wasn’t expecting Nils Frahm’s next album to be a dub record!
Ball hockey fans
I’m enjoying Watch the Sound With Mark Ronson, a series on music production with episodes on topics like reverb, synthesizers, and sampling
Restocking some essentials 🥃
Currently reading: A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, 2) by Arkady Martine 📚
I really enjoyed Salvation by Peter F. Hamilton (book 1 of the Salvation Sequence trilogy). A fun blend of sci-fi, detective novel, and alien invasion with a cliffhanger ending📚
A new game on the iPad: try to guess what term Photos is searching for in Spotlight. Here’s an example where I’m launching Overcast and Photos has used “ov” to find pictures of ovens. This has actually been a great way to uncover how much more sophisticated Photos has become.
My Micro Camp sticker has arrived and looks great! Thanks @burk!
Black Lab Brewery has some great beers, plus I enjoy the branding
Our epistemic crisis is essentially ethical and so are its solutions
Before you know it, people have starkly different views on the matter, and their views are based on perfectly solid research. The point here is not that we can’t know anything, it’s simply that the world is a complex place, and that the search for simplicity is very often what gets us into trouble. For scholars, the most important thing is to strive to present their work in a way that’s as objective as possible (accuracy), and to present a range of reasonable results wherever possible, giving the fullest possible picture (sincerity).
This book caught my eye at the local used bookstore: Pragmatism and Other Essays by William James 📚
Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout by Philip Connors is an interesting mix of reflections on solitude, the importance of conservation, and American history 📚
Although I only caught day 2 of Micro Camp 2021 live, I really enjoyed the talks. I’ll catch up on day one in a couple of days.
Currently reading: Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout by Philip Connors 📚
Excession by Iain M. Banks is a great read with a fun mix of space opera, humour, morality, and mystery 📚
A great video on the Standard Model of physics
Really well done and fascinating video on The Sounds of Space
Currently reading: Excession by Iain M. Banks 📚
The iPadOS save dialog for MS Office has become confusing. I can never figure out which of these “Documents” folder is my documents folder, rather than a colleague’s
Back in the office after a 13 month gap and spotted my first PPE vending machine on the commute. A sign of how things will be after COVID-19 🦠 😷
Mortal on Amazon Prime is good. A nice take on the Thor myth that doesn’t adopt the Marvel spectacle style (though that style is good fun)
A nice run along Taylor Creek 🏃♂️. Except for the hill up to Lumsden Ave near the end; that part was horrible
I’ve been using the iOS betas for just over a week. The new Focus feature is as useful as I’d hoped. Being able to change notifications and home screens by context is great. Especially for switching off from work
Currently reading: The Little Drummer Girl: A Novel by John le Carre 📚
A quiet run along the beach this morning. Certain to be much busier this afternoon 🏃♂️
