Currently reading: Gravity Let Me Go - A Novel by Trent Dalton 📚
Currently reading: Raising Good Humans A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids by Hunter Clarke-Fields 📚
My son’s First Holy Communion.
Australian interest rates up another 0.25%. Thanks in large part to the Orange one. The portion of Australians who own a mortgage doing the heavy lifting once again.
Watched: The Outfit 🍿 Would have been better as a stage play.
Watched: The Holdovers 🍿 A lovely story that perhaps could have shaved off 30 minutes of runtime.
Watched: Project Hail Mary 🍿I’ve seen it twice at the cinema and loved it both times.
Currently reading: The Truth about Managing People by Stephen P. Robbins 📚Found this deep in my backlog. Let’s see what it’s all about.
Finished reading: Transforming the Difficult Child by Howard Glasser 📚 I bought this several years ago but have only now read it. I wasn’t ready for it at the time, but I wish I had been. Set aside the dated terminology, I believe the lessons to be solid.
I watched Project Hail Mary at the cinema for a second time today, this time I was being a Dad to my boys. It was just as much fun a second time around.
Finished reading: Top Five Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware 📚The fact is took me about 2 years to get through probably indicates I didn’t really vibe with this one.
I can’t decide if the creation of an ‘am dash’ is a clever rethinking or a sad reflection of what has happened to writing. I also think most people won’t notice the difference and will just assume it’s a font-specific em dash, thus rendering the whole effort worthless.
Finished reading: Atomic Habits by James Clear 📚Finally read this about 8 years after my intention. Most stuff was familiar and it was a straightforward read.
Yesterday evening I quipped about the romanticism of being awake in the middle of the night, doing great thinking. This morning, after unintentionally getting only 3 hours sleep, the concept seems decidedly less romantic.
Bag 15 complete. Lego set complete!
It’s totally normal that I have a long-running Google Gemini conversation about personal finance, with it using analogies to lean manufacturing theory, and tieing actions back to the GTD methodology, right? Everyone does this, yeah? 🤓
Episode 159 of Hemispheric Views podcast! The Australians are falling apart. @Burk is moving a million pounds. We try on a thought experiment. █████ is back! @martinfeld brings up a train, and by doing so, some trauma for me!
Cynicism, Gullibility and the Internet Era
The Cynical, Gullible American Man - The Atlantic:
We have a data economy that thrives on selling products we don’t need for problems we don’t have, and a public that falls for these ploys—even as we think ourselves much too clever to be fooled.
This article, linked to by Kottke creates a new word, that might take off much as ‘enshittification’ did. This one is gullicism, noting that people seem now to be gullible about snake-oil salesman, and cynical about experts.
Yesterday I watched Louis Theroux’s Manosphere documentary and today I read this article at The Atlantic. I’m losing hope for the world.
Bag 14 complete.
Bag 13 complete.
