Nice intro to an incisive book. End of the year is a time for reflection, but it is ALWAYS a good time to re-examine your inner work camp. #burnout
My review from 2017 here: chadkohalyk.com/2017/07/3…
Clock tower at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto. I graduated the One Year Program in 2000, and came back to work in the PR office from 2002-5. Now, in 2023 I am here with my 11 year old as she takes the Japanese Language Proficiency Test.
Posted my end of month roundup newsletter. This month’s theme is “Continental Edges”
I see the traditional Christmas Kurage have been set out 🎄🎅🏽🪼
Istanbul — Look around, feel history
Monday, November 27, 2023
Istanbul, Constantinople, Nova Roma — the city at the crossroads of the world — is a city of layers. First settled 6000 years ago each new community was built on top of the previous. And being located at such a strategic point as the world’s only trans-continental city, there have been a lot of different people groups and empires with designs on the city. I was in town for just over ten days, mostly for work, but my old pal Chris Gunson flew up from Dubai and we toured around together for a few days.
Today is a working day of planning and reading. The perfect day to walk-to-think, periodically stopping at cafes to read/write. I am wandering through Kyobashi and Shiromi where I get a view of Osaka Castle 🏯🍂 and spot some tourists driving gokarts 🏎️ in costumes 🤷♂️ Stimulating!
Uploaded a bunch of photos/vids from Istanbul. You can check out the collection. I will follow up with a blog post later this week. 📸
Early Sunday morning, everyone in the household asleep 😴 I sit on the balcony in the cool autumn weather 🍂 with a cup of steaming coffee ☕️ bathing in the warm sun 🌅 I hear birds🐦⬛ and kids at practice in the baseball diamond ⚾️ below. Enjoying being reflective. 🥰 Take care ya’ll!
In this in-depth Syllabus interview with Evgeny Morozov, William Davies presents a handy periodization of neoliberalism, including how their thought has changed throughout. +nuance Well worth the read
Takes me back to when I was working in Nagoya port as a bunker agent one season and boarded about 120 ships. Fun to learn how to read infrastructure like this: hakaimagazine.com/videos-vi…
Enjoying“How Infrastructure Works” by Deb Chachra with a nice mocha and donut at my new local coffee joint, a funky hipster place that is also an art gallery and skateboard shop 🛹☕️🎨 📚
Currently reading: How Infrastructure Works by Deb Chachra 📚
I was looking forward to start this book, but chapter 1 has me really excited. I will do chapter notes on Goodreads as usual.
A nice little video walkthrough of Embark, featured in the latest Ink & Switch essay on dynamic documents: www.youtube.com/watch
After 24 hours of 🚕🛩️🚌🛩️🚌🚕 I am back in Osaka 🇯🇵 Perfect blue sky and 17°C. Gorgeous! Kids will be home soon and it will be Turkish Delight for everyone 🙌 🇹🇷
Wheels up! See you in Japan!
Last view of the sunset coming up over the Asian side of Istanbul, across the Bosphorus Strait. Soon I will be getting in a taxi to the airport, and making the long journey home, to the other edge of Asia.
Appreciate this deep dive on the costs to provide secure and private chat from an org I whole-heartedly support: Signal. They even dig into some of their unique privacy-preserving techniques, eg hiding GIF search terms (Meta aquired Giphy, getting a bunch of data before selling it on to Shutterstock! Now your info is owned by three companies!)
In this era of expanding consolidation, you never know where your data may end up. The only winning move for services that care about your privacy is to not collect any sensitive data in the first place.
Istanbul is the city of cats. I am at Kahve Dunyasi, a sort of Turkish Starbucks. It is pouring rain outside, so the cats take refuge inside the cafe!
Only a couple days left in Istanbul. Went back to the Hagia Sophia. Just amazing to think of this being built in the 6th century, and added to and extended for centuries. The dual half-domes hold up that gorgeous main dome, that still stands 1500 years on 🤯
Rooftop breakfast overlooking the Bosphorus as the sun rises over Asia
