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A while ago, I noticed in Alasdair MacIntyre's Whose Justice? Whose Rationality? an unfavorable reference to Saul Kripke's Naming and Necessity, concerning the implications of the name "Aristotle". I don't think that MacIntyre was quite …

I don’t feel like this is what Microsoft were expecting when they set up the ‘on this day’ feature. What a day though. What a day…

Just a heads-up that the listing for my forthcoming book Beyond Hope: Collective Power and Mutual care in the Long Emergency has just gone live on Amazon here in the UK, and that you’d be …

Instagram algorithms want people like me dead, so I'm leaving Instagram.

Worked on an interesting problem over the week: How do you pragmatically iterate over a series without using loops/iterators/etc? The solution takes you back to fundamentals, and back to maths. Inductive proofs hold the answer. …

I’ve long since unshackled my web browsing from social media and instead use RSS feeds to keep up with the haps. I love RSS (here’s mine) because it sprinkles in front of me the things …

Apparently I have not done strength training in a while and . . . oof. I wasn’t even using weights, and still . . . oof.

Today, on what would have been his 43rd birthday, I’m thinking about my cousin Scott. Scott was a remarkable human being who spent much of his adult life battling cancer and its fallout, and it …

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Toublan, Bordeaux, and Merlot walk into a BarnThe pig surprised everyone. Often, pigs will do that when they either start talking and become the most lovable friend you could ever had, or, when they suddenly …

It’s very difficult to work under these conditions. The feeling of being slightly broken followed me into a third week. But somehow, like a change in the weather, it cleared as the days went by. …

I've developed a useful rule to reject all social media, coupons, and wearables. A few weeks ago, I broke my rule. In January, I spent $400 on a 2-year WHOOP subscription after diving into Bryan …

I have a lot of thoughts about systems and how they work, and how we can teach systems thinking to others. Maybe one good place we could start is by capturing this old tweet of …

went for a beer with Alice and suggested I might write a weeknote when I got home we each had two pints of Neck Oil. it was £6.30 for one pint. I’m glad I don’t …

A couple of weeks back I noticed that Windbringer was starting to act dodgy in the way that Dell laptops do when they're getting long in the tooth: USB trouble, wifi getting weird (he'd only …

Thoughts on 2023 The Big Stuff:A year of contentment. Family life atop the miller’s hill is bliss, and the kids are so much more relaxed and confident now we’re more comfortable letting them explore. Felt …

Apple Vision Pro is out. Casey Neistat made his video on it. The last couple of days I was reflecting on this incredible pieced of technology. But it was more about changes in the society. …

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When somebody agrees to do something for you, you usually expect them to keep their word. Do you expect the same when you make a promise to yourself? So what if I don’t keep that …

An inside look at the process of creating a children's board book that celebrates Shanghainese culture, language, and cuisine