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.
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📺 I enjoyed Foundation Season 2. A good part of that enjoyment requires letting go of the original books and embracing this reinterpretation
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📚
Day 16: Oof!
Day 15: Red
Day 14: Statue
Day 13: Glowing
Day 12: Panic
Day 11: Retrospect
Day 10: Cycle
Finished reading: Earthseed by Octavia E. Butler is a powerful story that is surprisingly optimistic for a dystopia 📚
Day 9: Language
Day 8: Yonder
Day 7: Panorama
Almost BBQ’d a mouse! Spotted it just as I was turning on the burner.
Day 6: Well
Day 5: Forest
