2024-01-08: Custom word search
2024-01-02: I haven’t done specific New Years Resolutions in a few years, but for 2024 I have three: 20 …
2023-10-05: Ready to go!
2023-06-27: Updated my reading page this morning!
2023-05-20: In the car this morning, my four year old said “Dad, can you play the Robert Henry …
2023-05-16: Spalted maple bud vase
2023-05-12: Driftwood burl
2023-04-18: Go Leafs Go. Buds in 6.
2023-04-15: First bowl of the spring. Pretty pleased with this little guy.
2023-03-21: We have a teenager on our block - maybe 18 or 19 years old - who for the last two years could be …
2023-03-18: A perfect Saturday morning
2023-02-17: 🍕
2023-02-11: Be mine ❤️
2023-02-05: A little while back I posted about a map I made on Felt. The Felt folks continue to ship amazing …
2023-01-04: Thoughts on woodturning Last spring, around April 2022, my dad and I were walking around the neighbourhood and met a man …
2022-12-30: How it’s going…
2022-12-30: How it started 🥣🪵
2022-09-25: Historical detective work In 1933, at the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor began to walk from the Hook of Holland to …
2022-09-21: I’m re-reading Patrick Leigh Fermor’s A Time of Gifts; this time I’m building a …
2022-09-04: There was nothing show-offy about friendships then. Your friends were simply who was around. It …
2022-09-03: Considering one’s life requires a horribly delicate determination, doesn’t it? To get to …
2022-08-22: Despite knowing little or nothing of the bloody, mucky realities of land-based lives, people …
2022-08-19: Home from the library
2022-08-19: It has ever been a hindrance to some and a blessing to others that the inbred egoism of the human …
2022-08-08: To gaze upon a childhood home through adult eyes is an act of disenchantment. Great doors grow …
2022-08-01: “It’s good for kids to be bored!” After putting this into practice in various ways …
2022-07-30: New notebook on the remarkable: “I love summer”
2022-07-16: Just updated my now page 🕦
2022-05-11: View out the front door for two weeks
2022-04-23: Can’t go to bed, too busy doing cursive practice
2022-04-02: 🌸
2022-03-26: Three year old just came up to me: “I’m having a meeting downstairs so please be quiet.” 🤫
2022-03-19: This morning Emma made me a colour by number Tiana to do. Claire took care of the Rapunzel.
2022-02-23: Any of us can do something good, in writing, when the world gives us a shove, but a true writer is …
2022-02-22: Booking in demand campsites for the summer is hard. Apparently I’m not the only one up at 7am …
2022-02-20: As you surface from an hour inadvertently frittered away… you’d be forgiven for …
2022-02-16: This story by Lauren Groff is my favourite thing I’ve read in a while. 📚
2022-02-12: From the kitchen, the smell of bread lifts, smooth white rolls speaking careful English for the …
2022-02-04: Stars have always done asset-based wealth building, just like any other rich person, but …
2022-01-30: 📚 Finished Trust by Domenico Starnone. I was struck by two things: first, the success with which …
2022-01-29: 🤒
2022-01-29: I’ve been using a Keychron K4 for the last two years. I love it, but I’ve started …
2022-01-19: I’m working in slack for the first time; previously the company chat app was G Chat. One thing I …
2022-01-17: ❄️❄️❄️
2022-01-08: 🎥🍿🎬 if anyone is looking for a new movie service to try - here’s a month free of Mubi. Selection is …
2022-01-05: People in uniform had always bothered me and when I drank I felt an absolute necessity to tell them …
2022-01-03: Studying trees with a new Christmas gift - the Carson PocketMicro hand held microscope 🍂🔬
2022-01-02: 🛷 satisfaction
2022-01-02: I got out of bed four days later and, sneezing fiercely, caught a bus and went and recovered my old …
2022-01-02: 🛷 anticipation
2022-01-01: I’ve been doing some prep reading over the last few weeks to get ready for a new job. Some of …
2021-12-31: Powering down a work computer for the last time an hour before New Years feels right 🥃
2021-12-30: “She’s beautiful, my dear, and beautiful people are always unpredictable. They know that …
2021-12-29: Reward after a long walk 📺
2021-12-27: ❄️
2021-12-26: Photos aside, most of my posts to this blog are quotes from what I’m reading at the moment. …
2021-12-26: Marble run 👍
2021-12-13: Let me make it clear from the start that I don’t blame anyone, I was dealt my cards and I …
2021-12-12: Today on a walk my daughter looked out at the water and said “not a great day… for …
2021-12-08: 📷
2021-12-07: It is not surprising that we should believe that our fate is primarily ordained by outside agencies. …
2021-11-28: Honest conversation [with Dorothy’s dissertation supervisor Judith] was pointless, because a …
2021-11-23: Dorothy looked out the window. I am leaving Las Vegas, she said to herself. That was a movie she had …
2021-11-15: Fall on the bluffs 🍂
2021-11-14: Loyalty 🤍
2021-11-13: For a long time [Dorothy] had loved karaoke. Honestly, she had loved it too much. The love was …
2021-11-13: Beach phone
2021-11-11: I recently hibernated my linkedin (🎉). But I still have a professional presence online if I need it …
2021-11-10: The three of them represented the three potential paths of the graduate student: the one who wins, …
2021-11-09: Did a very “idle parent” thing this evening: sent the two older girls down to the basement to play …
2021-11-08: Fun fact: Google Lens on iOS (via the app) does a better job at transcribing text than the much …
2021-11-07: Random Shopify store idea for a Sunday morning - basic fan gear (hats, tees) for non-top flight …
2021-11-06: Training 📷
2021-11-03: Fall dawn on the wall 📷
2021-10-31: Transition 📷
2021-10-30: Beach find 📷
2021-10-23: Skeptical 📷
2021-10-21: Yahtzee! 📷
2021-10-18: New business cards 📷
2021-10-17: [Oakeshott] admires those who, whether humble or exalted, poor or rich, ordinary or brilliant, in …
2021-10-16: 📷
2021-10-16: 📷
2021-10-13: A paper Discovery morning 📷 🚀🧑🚀
2021-10-09: Lounging with logos 📷 🍏
2021-10-08: Back in her childhood she used to have holy feelings, knifelike flashes that laid the earth open …
2021-10-03: Sunday morning walk 🌂
2021-09-30: I have finished Beautiful World, Where Are You and in my dream I was wrong: the balance …
2021-09-29: I started reading Sally Rooney’s new novel Beautiful World, Where Are You last night 📚. I made …
2021-09-27: An every 10 year birthday present (more or less) 🎂
2021-09-25: Saturday morning 🌞 📷
2021-09-12: For about twenty-five years I have been copying sentences into the back pages of whatever notebook I …
2021-09-11: Leylah 🇨🇦 vs Emma 🇬🇧 is, for me, a can’t lose match. I’m excited for both of them and …
2021-09-09: The September 6 issue of The New Yorker has re-prints of two phenomenal pieces by Zadie Smith (from …
2021-09-07: I’m excited about my library holds list. Should be an excellent autumn for reading :) …
2021-09-05: Remote work mostly destroys the ability to appear busy, other than having a full calendar. Being on …
2021-08-20: A picture of a video of a puffin 📷
2021-08-20: Morning reading 📷 📚
2021-08-14: Lookout 📷 🏖️
2021-08-07: [Mona] remembered something she’d heard a while back from her friend Vlad, a sixty-something …
2021-08-07: Cucamelon! 📷 🥒🍉
2021-08-05: 📚The phases of remote adaptation from GitLab: Phase 1, Skeuomorph : a remote organization will look …
2021-08-02: Camping essentials 📷 ☕️
2021-07-28: Helpful 📷
2021-07-25: Ben Evans, on the e500m fine France has levied on Google for “not negotiating ‘in good …
2021-07-24: Rainy day boardwalk 📷
2021-07-20: 📍 Moscow, Russia
2021-07-20: Hazy sun 📷
2021-07-17: Even with the ancient Netscape web browser, even with data dribbling into your CPU from a telephone …
2021-07-15: Sidewalk book club 📷
2021-07-12: [The] absence of social feedback is the default experience in virtual communication, and was from …
2021-07-10: Saturday morning swim 📷
2021-07-07: Today I discovered I can hibernate my LinkedIn account. I deleted my Facebook account in 2009 and …
2021-07-07: r/wallstreetbets had illuminated something: everyone was now playing the same game, mediated by the …
2021-07-05: 📍Dublin, Ireland
2021-07-04: 📚 I’m halfway through Matt Feeney’s Little Platoons: A Defense of Family in a …
2021-07-04: Made ice cream, needed to clean up 📷
2021-07-03: Exploring 📷
2021-07-02: Bernita watched Victoria chase the fireflies around the yard for a few minutes. This, she thought, …
2021-07-01: Substack, the Read on ReMarkable Chrome plugin, and my first gen ReMarkable have combined for the …
2021-06-30: 📍Washington DC. Made with OpenStreetMaps, ggplot2, and love. Available for sale thanks to Shopify.
2021-06-26: [W]e must shift our thinking from treating teams as collections of interchangeable individuals that …
2021-06-25: Happy place 📷
2021-06-23: Today in arts and crafts: forgery 📷 💵
2021-06-22: I reopened my digital map store today.
2021-06-22: And then it is another day and another and another but I will not go on about this because no doubt …
2021-06-21: NBA Conference Finals: most searched team by state
2021-06-20: Dad’s day Caesar 📷
2021-06-19: 🎈 📷
2021-06-16: I found this story indicating that the New York Islanders are the most popular team across the US a …
2021-06-15: Wading out 📷
2021-06-15: 🎵 Samia - Big Wheel
2021-06-10: Morning reading 📷
2021-06-06: Geese in the fog 📷
2021-06-05: 🎵 King Tuff: The Other
2021-06-05: I’ve never worked at FAANG so I don’t know what I’m missing. But I’ve hired …
2021-06-05: Kite running 📷
2021-06-03: Venkatesh Rao has a new subscribers only post out through his Substack, and it’s one of the …
2021-06-03: Coffee lessons ☕📷
2021-05-28: Friday night sky 📷
2021-05-28: Occasionally I look at my wife’s beautiful iPhone 12 and think I’ll switch back. …
2021-05-26: Close encounter 📷
2021-05-25: Togetherness first, battle second. In love, war should be peace by other means. S. G. Belknap in …
2021-05-24: Long weekend sky 📷
2021-05-19: From an anonymous book review of Natasha Dow Schüll’s Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las …
2021-05-18: Lake views 📷
2021-05-15: I was fooling around recently with some NHL stats visuals, and decided to update them tonight while …
2021-05-15: Crosswords after lunch 📷
2021-05-14: Fiddled with blog themeing this evening, and emoji navigation makes me happier than I expected :)
2021-05-14: Reading the paper 📷
2021-05-10: By letting people choose their own office adventures, employees can gain back some of what’s sorely …
2021-05-08: Saturday morning 🍕 📷
2021-05-01: It is tricky to encode both absolute and percentage variables in the same visual. Consider the main …
2021-04-27: Going for a walk 📷
2021-04-25: I don’t think I have ever learned a lesson in my life. I don’t watch somebody make a …
2021-04-24: How my wife thinks our baby sees us 📷
2021-04-23: Circular breakfast 📷
2021-04-21: April 21, 2021: 🌨️📷
2021-04-20: New neighbours 📷
2021-04-17: Great minds think alike @alligator :) 📷
2021-04-17: Saturday morning 📷
2021-04-15: New York Times 📷
2021-04-12: Spring magnolia 📷
2021-04-11: It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one’s nose, a good deal of it to know in …
2021-04-03: Discipline is the impossible conquered by the obstinate repetition of the possible. From A …
2021-04-01: Via this week’s Data is Plural email, the CDC’s daily vaccination statistics are being …
2021-04-01: Early spring 📷
2021-03-30: Human dignity must be associated with the idea of a scamp and not with that of an obedient, …
2021-03-28: Human personality is the last thing to be reduced to mechanical laws; somehow the human mind is …
2021-03-27: [Ishiguro] is a planner, patient and meticulous. Before he begins the writing proper, he will spend …
2021-03-25: 📷
2021-03-25: Net + sand + water = 👍 📷
2021-03-24: Inspired by @maique!
2021-03-24: Google’s Data Analytics Certificate is now live on Coursera. I’ve had the incredible …
2021-03-24: Without the company’s New York headquarters, people who worked in other cities and countries …
2021-03-24: Added to the archive 📷
2021-03-24: New notebook day 📷
2021-03-23: Other than explicitly not living his dream, is Kazuo Ishiguro living the dream? In his own words, …
2021-03-23: Currently reading
2021-03-22: Technique 📷
2021-03-21: [Kant] was awoken each morning at five o’clock, never later. He breakfasted on a couple of …
2021-03-20: Harvesting “sea bubbles” 📷
2021-03-20: One of the benefits of having a finicky two week old baby who likes to spend significant portions of …
2021-03-19: The urban stroller is subversive. The walker of wide-open spaces, the trekker with his rucksack …
2021-03-18: Our judgement of an established author is never simply an aesthetic judgment. In addition to any …
2021-03-17: better bar chart 📈 Bar charts are everywhere, and it’s hard to make them not boring. One way to dress them up a …
2021-03-17: This week’s best toy: dad’s chip set 📷
2021-03-16: New boots! 📷
2021-03-15: Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of discovering who we are, which …
2021-03-14: construction 📷
2021-03-13: Computer things I’ve found recently that I think are cool: read on reMarkable Chrome …
2021-03-12: Walking is the best way to go more slowly than any other method that has every been found. To walk, …
2021-03-12: I added a now page to my micro.blog recently.
2021-03-12: 📷
2021-03-10: 📷
2021-03-10: Yesterday my almost five year old and I did a quick run to the grocery store together. It was the …
2021-03-09: 📷
2021-03-09: You could do worse than having this on in a corner of your screen, or maybe on a second monitor: 30 …
2021-03-08: 📷
2021-03-08: cumulative line chart 📈 It’s always fun reinforcing how well a favourite team is doing, so I thought I’d build …
2021-03-06: 📷
2021-03-05: 📷
2021-03-04: Craig Mod’s recent essay on looking closely reminded me of Houellebecq reading Schopenhauer, …
2021-03-03: My library recently added a “borrowing history” page (belated, but welcome. Thanks …
2021-03-03: 📷
2021-03-02: Just finished That old country music by Kevin Barry, highly recommended. Recently finished Drive …
2021-02-28: busy morning 📷