Sometimes I see stuff about “liberals” and think “that’s such a straw man”.

After 5 minutes on bluesky, I can see where some of the crazy stereotypes come from.


WordPress 6.7 is here as is the new default theme Twenty Twenty-Five. Seems like it might suit Sketchy Ideas well (and allow me to move away from a WP Engine related theme)


It’s a mju day, it’s a mju life, it’s a mju world. And I’m feeling good.


My brother is visiting so I took him to the Jewish coffee shop and cultural centre. One of my favourite spots in krakow.


I opened the mac App store to update Final Cut Pro (this one goes to 11) and it made me realise something.

I miss minimal writing apps.

Yes, there are still some out there but most now are some sort of PKM app. There was something beautiful about the basic writing app era.

Now, please excuse me while I add a note about this to Obsidian.


(Can’t remember the source of this idea).

Governments SHOULD do inefficient things. If those things were efficient and profitable, then business would do them but we need governments to do the things that don’t have an immediate payoff.

An example, building roads and other infrastructure to connect rural communities. No business would do this as it wouldn’t be worth the ROI, governments should and many businesses benefit as well as the residents.

This doesn’t mean governments can’t/shouldn’t be more efficient and seek to limit waste, but judging a government by a corporation is dangerous.


I just updated the Sketchy Gospel about page as I try to get my sketchy advent devotional series ready in time. I have a cool theme for the series and it’s just four/five emails so it should be easily doable. We’ll see!


My daughter wanted to send a letter to Santa so I cleaned and refilled my fountain pens for the first time in years. I’m glad to have finally had a push to do this. Time to use these much more!


Finished reading: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles 📚 a very enjoyable read. The writing style was fantastic and a very character driven book. I have a writing theory about one character but it would be too spoiler-ish to share in public.


Ah instagram. Where I’m being offered “get paid for drawing: beginner illustration course”. Maybe, just maybe, if you’re an absolutely beginner you shouldn’t do it with the goal to get paid for it. Maybe, just maybe, it’s okay to have hobbies for fun and not hustles for money.


🔗 Does Tim Keller Have an Intellectual Successor? - Jordan Cooper some good reflections here from Jordan but I’d certainly debate some throw away points he makes.


I think today would be a really good day to do a random act of kindness towards someone.

The means are the end.


I guess America decided “Sure, he tried a violent insurrection and he will deal with his enemies list on day one as well as deport millions of legal and illegal immigrants, but that’s a risk I’m willing to take for lower inflation driven by measures that most leading economists say will increase inflation.”

What could possibly go wrong.


Well this is awkward. I just realised that I forgot the 5th of November despite a rhyme specifically telling me not to.

I only realised thanks to my family WhatsApp group.


Visiting graves on All Saints’ Day.


When world’s collide. Really enjoyed hearing @dswanson on the holy post podcast. It made me realise how although I’ve lived in Wieliczka for 8 years there’s still so much I just don’t notice each day. What a beautiful gift.


I’m fully expecting apple to just update the Mac accessories to have USB-C not lightning and think that’s fine…except the Magic Mouse. And Apple, if you ever want an easy win to make Apple fans suddenly think “the old Apple is back” just sort out the Magic Mouse.


My company is adopting a new tool. There’s a presentation starting with the homepage. The main headline starts with “AI-powered” and I literally rolled my eyes. We’ve reached that point of AI. Using AI might make a lot of sense but leading with AI doesn’t tell me any benefit.


🎙️ Rory Sutherland on how micro-efficiencies lead to macro-inefficiencies.

Interesting interview with some great points on risk, creativity and behavioural psychology.


Living abroad achievement of the day: cancelling my old internet contract and getting a new one on my business account over the telephone. I usually go into a store to deal with this kind of thing as it’s so much easier to deal with weaker language skills face to face.