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Une petite catharsis of anomie — a review of Deep Work by Cal Newport
Thursday, May 22, 2025
Deep Work is Cal Newport’s highest selling book. He published it in early 2016 and it made waves at the time since he strongly argues against social media. Cal is infamously not on social media (unless you count blogging and podcasting 😜) so it is a little ironic that the reason I finally decided to pick up this book was due to a post I saw on social media. Although the book explores quite a few topics, to sum it up from my perspective, he introduces a term well known in software circles to a more general audience: context switching.
Holy he did it! #COYS
Nice!
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Happy 47th birthday 🎈
A programming language resembling magical circles 🧙♂️
“I have friends everywhere.”
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Five stars.
Key findings and recommendations from the Critical Infrastructure Lab’s new report on the EU’s digital innovation funding (like Horizon) and tech sovereignty. Lessons for Canada 🤔 #tech #techpolicy #digitalSovereignty
Why Bell Labs Worked from @1517.bsky.social
This is familiar and correct… and very hard to do in today’s economic climate (as noted in the piece). Le sigh 😮💨
Read in 2025: The Fionavar Tapestry Trilogy by Guy Gavriel Kay 📚
Stopped at the end of The Summer Tree. Struggled. This book is dated… that is the kindest thing I can say. Not going to continue.
Downtown Kelowna at the marina. Happy Mother’s Day!
Started What’s Left by Malcolm Harris 📚
Timeline of web features: Baseline timeline
Started listening to Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler 📚
Been having these weird recurring dreams of being photographed in train stations in the Netherlands 🤷♂️ I’ve never even been to the Netherlands 🤔 What could this mean? 😳
Checking in on online media usage
Sunday, May 4, 2025
The latest Neverpo.st roundtable asks: “Is the internet driving you to the brink?” Mike points out that a first Trump admin, followed by Covid, and then another Trump admin, has turned many people’s online brains into mush. How do you keep up or stay informed, without driving yourself insane? A dozen years ago I tackled this problem, taking an information fast and reading The Information Diet by Clay Johnson. Things have gotten away from me over the past few years, but recently I have been leaning more into RSS and trying to read more blogs.
Lovely Saturday. Bought some handmade chili crunch and chocolate at the Nikkei Centre market, took a bunch of photos with family at our local wisteria trellis, and watched 2 eps of Andor.
One of my all time fav photos came up in my Memories today: the eaves of Bukko-ji, our neighbourhood temple in Kyoto, against a clear blue sky. Shot on this day 2 years ago.
Opera time! #vancouveropera
Excellent ep of @techwontsave.us I’ve known Son from way back, but did not know about the Sheldon Adelson connection. @lalehkhalili.bsky.social’s story of Trump teaching Son how to comb his hair is wild