Finished reading: Wool by Hugh Howey 📚
Microposts
I’ve been intrigued by Stoicism for a while now and How to Be a Stoic by Massimo Pigliucci is a great introduction to the ideas and practices of the Stoics. I particularly appreciated how Pigliucci made the practice applicable to modern day issues. 📚
I find these attempts to generate quantum theory from simple postulates fascinating, even though I barely understand them
School ski trip 🎿
I committed to a 🚴 challenge before checking my results to see if it was reasonable. So, had to conduct some excessive #rstats to see if I was in trouble matt.routleynet.org/post/comm…
After just two episodes, I’m definitely enjoying season 2 of Star Trek Discovery more than season 1. There were good parts of season 1, but overall it didn’t hold together for me. Regardless, always great to have new Star Trek
After four great ski days, we rested our legs in the hot springs today
Another great ski day
The Nugget Squad
Another glorious day
A great first day on the mountain!
Warming up ⛷
-20 degrees, but there are smiles under the scarves ⛷
I’m keen to adopt an iPad first approach. This MacStories article is a good primer and motivator www.macstories.net/stories/t…
The long nightmare of the 24-hour internet outage is over…
For awhile now I’ve been meaning to get serious about automation on iOS. The Siri Shortcuts Field Guide from @macsparky is a great, comprehensive introduction. While taking the course, I built a good dozen useful shortcuts and have many ideas for more.
Ed Harcourt’s album Beyond the End has been great headphone music for at work 🎶 itunes.apple.com/ca/album/…
Fun to be back ⛷
#CozyLife
Another Christmas dinner
Good advice from a philosopher on how to disagree constructively:
Many of my best friends think that some of my deeply held beliefs about important issues are obviously false or even nonsense. Sometimes, they tell me so to my face. How can we still be friends? Part of the answer is that these friends and I are philosophers, and philosophers learn how to deal with positions on the edge of sanity.
The Barchef project is delicious
Out for a Christmas stroll
The Kano computer is a great product. Fun and easy to build with lots of good built in software.
Merry Christmas
A quiet, snowy run today.
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Preparing the tree
Here’s some “behind the scenes” geospatial analysis I used in a recent @PsephoAnalytics post. This was a good excuse to experiment with the sf #rstats 📦 which makes this much easier than my old workflows