🎶 Ok, think I’m finding my black metal “tribe” and it’s pretty adjective/blackened? (atmospheric/folk/-gaze/neoclassical/post-/progressive/rabm)
Not sure there’s a straight-up black metal on the most-listened list?
- Ashenspire
- Agalloch
- Amiensus
- Aquilus
- Autonoesis
- Exulansis
- MøL
- Oak Pantheon
- Panopticon
- Reign A.D.
- White Ward
- Within Thy Wounds
- Wolvennest
- Yovel
🐾 why are all dogs pibbles now?
🎶 Igorrr is up to some new nonsense, and I’m excited to find out what it is.
I’m so used to nocturnal wetlands coyote that when I just saw a critter slowly strolling through the desert in the middle of the day, I thought it as a fox…but it was a coyote!
🔒 I’m at the CSO Conferencece and Awards.
Tomorrow, my team will be accepting a CSO50 award for our security automation platform that supports 4000 engineers and 7000 applications.
I’ve since left the company, but am here supporting my previous team. Proud of them!
🏈 do you not get in trouble for throwing the ball away, anymore?
Odd to me that “scarf culture” has taken up in USA for ⚽️.
We run in the reverse (wrong) season setup, and it’s only at the very end of the season that they even make any sense.
☕️ People say you can’t make tea using a pourover method, but I’ve done it with a couple types and it’s worked great.
🚲 It is officially “wear gloves when biking” weather. 🍁
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Jung Science
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Hovertext:
The best part of the book is his descriptions of Freud fainting because Jung didn’t believe sex was the cause of everything.
Today’s News:
🧦 On recommendation, I’ve tried Darn Tough socks a couple times, but they just don’t stay up. (Partially, I suspect, because their XL is still a little small for a 13, and their XXL isn’t available in most pairs.)
Back to Smart Wool.
Last year I met Les Stroud. Pretty cool event.
Let’s go #USMNT
It’s the ex-Chelsea coach era for US ⚽️
📚 Slow Productivity
Read: Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
Recommended
I appreciate that he looked for a positive and hopeful framing, rather than an anti-.
As the 4th Cal Newport book I’ve finished (and 5th I’ve started), it’s largely what I’d expect. That said, there are useful notes and references therein (captured below).
In knowledge work, and particularly software development, many of the recommended approaches are already encoded (in different terminology) in various agile methodologies.
Newport acknowledges how the techniques and strategies will not apply outside certain narrow situations, but hopes to spark a “revolution”.
See also:
- Digital Minimalism
- Productivity As an Incomplete Measure (this is addressed further in this book)
- Deep Work
- The Time Block Planner
My Reading Highlights and Notes
🕊️ Let no one say we didn’t know.
The horror must end. The United States must stop arming Israel.
🍄🟫 We’re now 3 for 3 in ordering mushroom toasts in New American restaurants and being blown away by how good they are.
📚 The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist
Recommended
These are more-accurate-than-normal descriptions of brain halves, though still insufficient:
- Context (R)
- Grasping (L)
I found the first half (brain) of the book better and less speculative than the second half (historical analysis).
📚 Supercommunicators
Read: Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg
Recommended, with a caveat:
It’s not exactly what the title implies it will be, nor is it the same book at the end as it is at the start. In fact, the supposed mission of the book is truly only covered in an almost-footnote in the afterword (my final highlight captured at the bottom of this post). Nevertheless, it was full of useful information presented in useful ways.