Found some tranquility

Nice view from a hike to the top of a hill

Currently reading: Fathoms: the world in the whale by 📚

I’ll be hanging out here for the next few days

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 📚