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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.
Taylor has released a limited edition Jacob Collier 5 string guitar (yes, 5. DAEAD). I love the idea of such a different approach to the guitar…but I wish they made a 100 /baby series version I might actually have the money for one day.
The next version of Logos Bible software is coming soon (and there’s a launch event explaining it). My initial experience of the AI features was a bit meh. But it’s improved and I adjusted to. Smart search alone is so great.
Playing around with Affinity designer for a sketchnote/infographic I’ve wanted to create for a while. I still have a load of trial time but haven’t given it a proper workout yet. It’s a real shift from using Procreate (which is no surprise to anyone, but still makes it tricky).
Back from Szczyrk - Polish mountain town
I spent the last week with my family down in a Polish mountain village going on walks, enjoying hearty food and making ample use of the Hotel pool and playroom. It wasn’t easy at times with two small rooms which meant we had to spend our evenings in the dark once the kids were asleep, but it was well worth it. And not bringing any work or projects with me was absolutely the right idea. I’m well rested which is exactly what I needed.
The pet eating fake story reminds me of the Brexit bus. It’s deliberately false so it just sucks up attention as people can’t help but say “there’s no evidence”. But what it has drawn attention to is how many Haitian immigrants have migrated…and that will scare the right people. And all you have to say is “well one person told me it happened to them.” and it doesn’t matter if there’s absolutely no evidence, that’s enough for some.
I never really considered “how quickly will my camera manufacturer support and update its software for the new macOS” and yet here we are. Nikon was really bad with Sonoma and now sequoia is here and I’m wondering how long till everything is supported.
It would be really rude to use AI to summarise a mega iOS review by someone who really doesn’t want their content to be used to train AI, wouldn’t it?
(seriously, I wouldn’t…but it’s actually a time I want to. Also, if I saved it to Readwise, it would be summarised which shows the challenge of stopping AI from being trained on your work).
Finished reading: The Divine Conspiracy by Dallas Willard 📚 — I see why people like it so much and I now recognise its influence on many other authors I like.
Just found a support article that was “Published 9/21/2023 update 19/06/2024”. I think we can all agree that switching between US date format and the rest of the world is the worst of all worlds.
One of the funny things that happens in our company is one copywriter will stretch a claim to its absolute limit (while still technically being true), then the next will just remove any hedge or whatever so it becomes a downright lie.
If I catch it, I make sure to undo it, but this is a very unintentional way that lies can slip in. (It also explains how tech news can drift from objectivity).
I really don’t like what bending spoons have done to Evernote* BUT 1. I hear it’s much better (finally) 2. It might actually be financially viable again. So their takeover of wetransfer makes me nervous.
*firing all their legacy employees, raising pricing, heavy “AI” focus, paywalling previously free features,etc,.)
Started reading while traveling in the UK. Great so far, but I wonder how much I’d appreciate with out my knowledge of Russian culture.
Currently reading: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles 📚
Wake up babe, new Vanhoozer just dropped.
A reminder, if you tag everyone, everyone has to assume who a task is delegated to (which usually means no one knows or does it).
Not writing inspired by recent experience of anything.
