Even though I knew how it ends, Free Solo is still an intense movie. I appreciated how Sanni (Alex’s girlfriend) and the video crew became important parts of the story
Reading Shortcut for the iPad 👓⚙️
I haven’t yet adopted the minimalist style of my iPhone for my iPad. Rather, I’ve found that setting up “task oriented” Shortcuts on my home screen is a good alternative to arranging lots of app icons. The one I use the most is a “Reading” Shortcut, since this is my dominant use of the iPad. Nothing particularly fancy. Just a list of potential reading sources and each one starts up a Timery timer, since I like to track how much time I’m reading.
Reflection journal in Day One with an Agenda assist
I’ve been keeping a “director’s commentary” of my experiences in Day One since August 2, 2012 (5,882 entries and counting). I’ve found this incredibly helpful and really enjoy the “On This Day” feature that shows all of my past entries on a particular day. For the past few months, I’ve added in a routine based on the “5 minute PM” template which prompts me to add three things that happened that day and one thing I could have done to make the day better.
Skipping past the dramatic title, Our remote work future is going to suck makes important points about the risks of remote work. These are all important things to watch out for in our teams, particularly the potential for stifling of mentorship.
Some unfortunate formatting in the CBC’s otherwise well done coronavirus tracker. At first glance, that’s a really big number
A small thing, but I’m finding the automatic conference call link detection in Fantastical is saving me a great amount of effort, given my days are now filled with Teams meetings
The novelty of all of us working from home is wearing off
The Aleph Extraction by Dan Moren is a fun read and worthy sequel to the great Bayern Agenda. The mix of cold-war thriller and sci-fi setting is definitely in my sweet spot 📚
A scary, but important, conversation on the Making Sense podcast about the threat of nuclear weapons
Different watch faces for work and home
watchOS 7 has some interesting new features for enhancing and sharing watch faces. After an initial explosion of developing many special purpose watch faces, I’ve settled on two: one for work and another for home. Both watch faces use the Modular design with the date on the top left, time on the top right, and Messages on the bottom right. I like keeping the faces mostly the same for consistency and muscle memory.
I added a HomePod to the newly renovated house. The sound quality is definitely as good as advertised and I appreciate the Apple Music integration 🎶. Siri has worked just fine for me so far, though I only really use it for reminders and calendar events.
Our Home Renovation Is Complete!
We’re very excited to move back home
Owen had his virtual grade 6 graduation with PJs on the bottom half
Decision-Making in a Time of Crisis is a good article on the danger of confusing bad outcomes with bad decisions. As advocated in the article, scenario planning is a useful tool for making decisions with uncertainty
I’m really enjoying these unapologetically nerdy posts on the logistics and tactics of Middle Earth armies.
The Last Emperox by John Scalzi is great fun and a fitting end to the trilogy 📚
We’ve compared our predictions of the 2019 🇨🇦 election to the actual votes. Overall, we were within 5% with no obvious geographical biases, though we did slightly overestimate support for the NDP at the expense of the Liberals. I think we’re on to something good here!
Comparing predicted to actual votes for the 2019 Federal election
Our predictions for the 2019 Federal race in Toronto were generated by our agent-based model that uses demographic characteristics and results from previous elections. Now that the final results are available, we can see how our predictions performed at the Electoral District level. For this analysis, we restrict the comparison to just the major parties, as they were the only parties for which we estimated vote share. We also only compare the actual results to the predictions of our base scenario.
I don’t remember being so organized on Wednesday 😀✅
Happy birthday to my favourite son!
