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.
Bag 12 complete.
Bag 11 complete.
It’s Day 1, but I’m super impressed by Inkwell, a new RSS reader developed by @manton as it ties nicely into my micro.blog infrastructure. I’m not typically a web app guy but this is pretty good.
Bag 10 complete.
I had a dream that I discovered a colleague was using OmniFocus for the Web, and we bonded over our shared passion for GTD. I know this will never happen in real life. 💭
I’m wondering if 1Password and I are no longer strategically aligned.