🏊♂️ Rare treat of having a lane to myself on today’s swim
🇨🇦 Regardless of if any of the proposals are adopted (though I think several should be carefully considered), I’m glad to see Build Canada is offering bold ideas. We need more of this, especially these days
At the pool for high school city championships. Lots of excitement!
❄️ Running out of room for the snow
📝 A new season for my notes
The sun rises, seasons change, and I reconsider my note-taking system. Some things are endlessly cyclical.
These days I use a split system: personal notes in Apple Notes (using a simplified Forever Notes structure) and work notes in OneNote, following the PARA method. My daily logs feed into ChatGPT for a summarized weekly note. It’s efficient, structured, and searchable—but also sterile and fleeting.
This week, after a nudge from Lee Peterson in the Hemispheric Views Discord, I dusted off a Field Notes notebook I last used in 2015 and started writing again.
Each day gets a fresh page. I list my two or three most important tasks, then jot down whatever comes up. I’ve even revived Patrick Rhone’s Dash/Plus system.
As plenty of folks will tell you, paper is nice. I also like how it keeps my phone on the charger instead of in my pocket, waiting for me to type something.
I’ve stopped being precious about my note-taking. My needs evolve, and so should my system.
🇨🇦 The Sutherland Quarterly
For my fellow, like-to-be-informed Canadians, I recommend the Sutherland Quarterly. As a subscriber, each quarter you get a short book (around 100 pages) on a current, important topic.
So far, I’ve read:
- An Emergency in Ottawa by Paul Wells on the trucker convoy
- Fleeced by Andrew Spence on Canadian banking
- Justin Trudeau on the Ropes also by Paul Wells on Trudeau’s challenges as Prime Minister
- Superintelligence by The Logic on AI in Canada
And I’m about to start Jasper on Fire by Matthew Scace. Each has been really good: informative, well written, and relevant to Canadians.
Subscriptions are available for both print and digital, while each book is also available separately.
🏃♂️ Sidewalks were mostly clear on today’s recovery run
Added new screen to manage your muted users, keywords, and blocks.
A nice addition to make it easier to quiet down the timeline, especially these days. Good to see this synchronizes across to Greg Morris' micro.social app too.
🔗 Matt Gurney: I hereby propose the Ice Bucket Challenge for National Survival
The premiers can and must break the stifling complacency that is such a hallmark of modern Canadian politics and use the power of social media, and simple shame, to get the ball rolling. To do something. And then do another thing, and another thing, and another thing.
Bad day for a broken shovel ❄️
