101 Edition
This week I have been mainly watching Batman films on Netflix. The Nolan trilogy, then the much less well done Snyder ones.
Not the best for productivity, but sometimes you just need to veg out a bit and turn the brain off, eh?
This week’s links
- I found this overview of current and future technology fascinating, and hopeful: https://elidourado.com/blog/notes-on-technology-2020s/
- I like a good fire as much as anyone, but it really doesn’t seem worth it: https://www.theguardian.com/…/avoid-using-wood-burning…
- I too am an optimistic pessimist: expect things to go well but plan for the worst… https://seanbreslin.net/…/new-year-and-the-local-shrine/
- I love this guy’s daily emails: https://www.nytimes.com/…/matt-levine-bloomberg.html
- Very true for me too. We were lucky. 2020 was inconvenient, not terrible: https://contrarianedge.com/a-shift-in-perception…/
- I definitely need more discipline: http://www.wisdomination.com/screw-motivation-what-you…/
- I really enjoyed My Octopus Teacher on Nexflix the other day, so this story made me smile: https://www.independent.co.uk/…/octopus-punch-fish…
- This tickled something for some reason. Maybe because I started playing chess again! https://thehardtimes.net/…/american-chess-magazine…/
- I need to find something new to learn (started playing chess again, but it’s not new to me): https://www.theguardian.com/…/the-joys-of-being-an…
- I love looking at this chart: https://awealthofcommonsense.com/…/updating-my…/
- I enjoyed this story way more than I thought I would: https://ryanholiday.net/richard-overton/
- This was fascinating. I wonder what the situation is in Japan? https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/two-worlds/
- This is amazing. So obvious, but I’ve never thought about it like this before: https://www.raptitude.com/…/how-to-make-friends-as-an…/
- A meditation on death by a palliative doctor: https://www.nytimes.com/…/sunday/coronavirus-death.html
- Yet another example of government policy that helps the relatively well off and ignores the poor: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/…/housing-ownership-rent/
- I like this very much: https://www.gocurrycracker.com/front-loading-frugality/
Not too shabby this week. Anything you like in there? I think #13 was my favourite this time.
This week’s books
- Who’s Engaged, by Janet Pilcher. A teaching book about lesson planning and curriculum design.
- Walking the Great North Line, by Robert Twigger. A travel book about walking a straight line vertically through England.
- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, by William Shirer. Seemed kind of appropriate right now.
- The Great Influenza, by John Barry. Also seemed appropriate.
- How Not to be Wrong: the Power of Mathematical Thinking, by Jordan Ellenberg. I am not super mathematical unfortunately.
- The Case for Keto, by Gary Taubes. I put on 10kg last year and haven’t managed to lose it again.
- Good Samaritans, by Will Carver. Apparently this book has a good twist, and I do like a good twist.
2) From watching YouTube videos of folks in Japan burning wood to cook and heat, they seem to burn a lot of soft wood as opposed to hard. Soft wood is okay to use as kindling but is toxic to cook with, and burning it as the main fuel will leave the flue eventually coated with creosote. That in turn may lead to a chimney fire. Very nasty.
Here in the UK I only burn well seasoned hard wood, when it’s really cold, and use an air purifier. It always disappoints me in Japan when I go running, or just open the windows, that some local farmer is burning farm waste. Even at running tracks the gardeners are always burning leaves, etc, with smoke crossing the track!
Something I’ve always wondered about: Are you finishing all the books you list every week? If so, that’s an impressive pace!
Ha, ha, I suspected someone would catch me eventually 🙂
It’s a list of books I bought that week. On a good week I’ll finish them all, on a bad week… I won’t.
I try to add books to wish lists instead of buying them, but still end up with more than I can finish!
Phew! I feel better about my own mediocre reading habits now 😉
Thanks for taking the time to share.
I think there were three links in this list that started off by going to facebook, and its warning: you are leaving facebook…blah, blah.
Personally, I avoid FB like the plague, regularly delete its tracking cookies–and it does track you in all kinds of ways. I hope apple’s new iOS release does prevent FB tracking people all over the place.
Anyway, in the future would it be possible to just get direct links in the reading list, without having to get tagged by FB in order to get to those? Thanks!
Sorry about that! I try to get rid of those, but sometimes miss one or two…