Finished reading: Stillness is the Key by Ryan Holiday 📚 Probably the best, most varied and most practical of Ryan’s first trilogy.

The WordPress theme I’m using just released version 1.0. I downloaded and lost my custom page templates (whomp whomp). So I started to edit a button so it’s back in the theme colours and… the element can’t be displayed… Gutenberg is terrible.

A quick visual of The Paradox of Choice. I have a trick for shopping for craft beer. I have a price limit and look for items on sale in my local shop. 90% of the time, that makes my decision for me. Otherwise I use the process I say in the post.

It’s amazing how beepy bloopy music (example from today) can suddenly trigger my brain into a sense of focus and motivation for work. Anyone else experience that?

Side effect of GA4 is I’m removing analytics from many of my old sites. I never really check them anymore so why bother. Plus GA4 is a dumpster fire.

“Coffee is the answer”

Seen in work Slack.

Struggling with something in my head today so mucking around in procreate and single line portraits (With extra layers for colour).

I think this might be the straw that breaks the camel’s back for me with 1password. I have no idea what I’ll replace it with though, maybe just iCloud keychain now it can do one time passwords too.

Good news. I’ve found my Ricoh Gr at my folks place. I don’t have the right charger with me but at least I will be able to use it again soon. In the meantime it’s been fun to use my MJU ii in London.

I was reading about childhood wounds and acting out like a child yesterday. So I made so,e journaling prompts to help me think about situations where I don’t act the way I wish to. Feel free to use them if you think they are useful

  • What traits of my dad am I worried about inheriting?
  • What traits of my dad do I want to exhibit?
  • What feelings and pains from childhood do I still feel?
  • When do I react “like a child at work”, what causes that?
  • When do I react “like an adult”?
  • When do I react “like a child” at home, what causes that.

P.s. if you have better phrasing, especially for the third, I’d be happy to hear it.

Five beautiful things in this cafe

  • A Dad reading to his daughter
  • Old friends catching up
  • “Thank you for tidying up” — a child repeats after her parents
  • Ludovico Einaudi on the radio
  • The aroma of freshly ground coffee infusing the air.

When you’re down on the south bank and have your iPad with you…

Hi from London.

The head of -Twitter- X corp could really do with listening to that Elon Musk bloke.

“You should take the approach that you’re wrong. Your goal is to be less wrong.”

and

“Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of whatever you’re doing is as valuable as gold.”

I started a little Van Gough inspired background for my zoom calls. I might add more details but I’m also tempted to try a more manga style one too.

I’ll be in London and free on Friday. I don’t suppose there are any micronauts who want to have a micro meetup in central London?

This weekend I started a page in Obsidian for the “We’re going to need a bigger car” project. Maybe the PARA organising system has its place.

I decided to try Hipstermatic again and it made iPhone photography feel fun again. I think it’s mostly just a change from “the iPhone look” to photo processing.

I’ve just finished the first draft of a free email course. “How to draw anything ( sketchily ) in just 5 days. It’s a set of daily activities that teach you some common drawing techniques to use in Sketchnotes and visual note taking. If that sounds interesting to you sign up here. It’s free

Happy “this-is-the-way-nesday” to all who celebrate.