Conscious by Annaka Harris is a fascinating overview of the science of this mysterious process. Her description of panpsychism was particularly intriguing 📚
The Good Place is a fun, clever show, once you get past the first few episodes 📺
The Bayern Agenda by Dan Moren is a fun sci-fi espionage story. Well worth a read 📚
The Red Rising sci-fi trilogy is solid, page-turning entertainment. Nothing high-concept and sometimes that’s all you want 📚
Visitors Day at Kilcoo
Off to camp for a month!
High school is next!
Fun visit with Great Grandma
This CBC story is disheartening:
while nearly two-thirds of Canadians see fighting climate change as a top priority, half of those surveyed would not shell out more than $100 per year in taxes to prevent climate change, the equivalent of less than $9 a month
Better Oblivion Community Center is a good listen 🎵
The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu was a fun read. The Chinese perspective made it interesting, but the actual appeal was the good science fiction. I’m looking forward to reading the next two books in the trilogy.
Fun mayhem downtown today for the Raptors parade. This was as close as I could get. 🏀🦖
Lucy is ready for @rrrroutley to drop his rib
Great fun at the #spartantoronto race
Switching to summer weather mode ☀️
If you’re at all interested in mindfulness, I recommend checking out the Waking Up app. The guided meditations and lessons are very helpful.
My iPhone Home Screen
My goal for the home screen is to stay focused on action by making it easy to quickly capture my intentions and to minimize distractions. With previous setups I often found that I’d unlock the phone, be confronted by a screen full of apps with notification badges, and promptly forget what I had intended to do. So, I’ve reduced my home screen to just two apps. Drafts is on the right and is likely my most frequently used app.
Consolidating my internet content
Like many of us, my online presence had become scattered across many sites: Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Tumblr, and a close-to-defunct personal blog. So much of my content has been locked into proprietary services, each of which seemed like a good idea to start with. Looking back at it now, I’m not happy with this and wanted to gather everything back into something that I could control. Micro.blog seems like a great home for this, as well described in this post from Manton Reece (micro.
An entertaining David Gray show, as always
Some great images of maps from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century in First You Make the Maps