Currently reading: Humble Pi by Matt Parker 📚
I’ve enjoyed listening to one of David Whyte’s poems each night before bed in the Waking Up Contemplative Action track. A good way to clear out my head
The Light of All That Falls by James Islington is a great end to The Licanius Trilogy. I was in the mood for an immersive fantasy series and these delivered, each book weighing in at close to a thousand pages. Interesting mix of fantasy, politics, time travel & free will 📚
Lucy gave up before we even started our One Academy Everest class
Wow, S2E3 of For All Mankind has a really powerful scene about parenthood. Very well done
Night skiing
Currently reading: The Light of All That Falls by James Islington 📚
The long way to a small, angry planet by Becky Chambers is great. I really enjoyed the characters and the sense of family on the Wayfarer. Definitely a nice change of pace from some more typical hard sci-fi stories that are more focused on the physics📚
Frustrating how everything goes haywire when updating AppleID passwords. HomePods become unresponsive, messages can’t be delivered, and other subtle errors arise. All this and it isn’t clear where you need to sign in again (having already done the obvious in AppleID settings)
I can relate to Lucy’s perspective on the day
Great day for skiing!
Wore out the kids by the end. They’ve been inside too much recently 😀
Fantastic to have season 2 of For All Mankind out. I really enjoyed season 1 and this new season looks promising
Currently reading: The long way to a small, angry planet by Becky Chambers 📚
Super exciting that Perseverance landed safely on Mars. We need more of this kind of good news and human achievement.
Seven and a Half Lessons about the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett is a charming, short book about how our brains work and our misconceptions about them 📚
Currently reading: Seven and a Half Lessons about the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett 📚
Qawa imperial stout with coffee and chocolate from Bandit Brewery. A good beer for a frozen night
If you’re interested in how algorithms are affecting us, Hello world by Hannah Fry is a great read. Rather than explain how algorithms work, Fry describes their opportunities and risks in different parts of society, such as health, justice, and art 📚
A fascinating, weird, and unsettling conversation about the differences between the right and left hemispheres of the brain on the Making Sense podcast
A great, long article on the use and development of COVID models. Plenty of lessons for modelling in general, especially when human behaviour is involved, which is relevant for transit planning