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Apr 28, 2024: Young vines preparing to soak up the summer sun.
Apr 25, 2024: Finished reading: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho π
Apr 7, 2024: Finished reading: The TKT Course CLIL Module by Kay Bentley π
Apr 5, 2024: Finished reading: Bright Wings by Billy Collins π Drawings of birds and poems about birds. What’s not to love?
Apr 1, 2024: Over recent months this website has morphed into a public log of my reading. I’m ok with that. I guess the beauty of having a personal website β¦
Apr 1, 2024: Finished reading: Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris π Funny and beautifully written.
Mar 25, 2024: Finished reading: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams π
Mar 12, 2024: Finished reading: Regenesis by George Monbiot π
Feb 21, 2024: Finished reading: Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad by Austin Kleon π
Feb 18, 2024: Itβs easy to fall into the trap of thinking that you just are who you are, forgetting the power you have to take action and become who you want to be. β¦
Feb 17, 2024: Finished reading: Building a StoryBrand by Donald Miller π
Feb 15, 2024: Apple recently shared a great Q&A with its UX writing team from last year’s WWDC. Lots of good insights here. If you’re a writer itβs β¦
Feb 14, 2024: Interesting to hear Malcolm Gladwell talk about his writing process on MasterClass. He shared how he breaks every piece of writing down into small, β¦
Feb 14, 2024: Finished reading: The Creative Act by Rick Rubin π
Feb 12, 2024: Finished reading: Naples ‘44 by Norman Lewis π
Feb 10, 2024: This has been a year of discovering American sports. Feels like they never stop, except for the ads. Chose Chicago as my base, don’t ask me why. β¦
Feb 9, 2024: The Merlin Bird ID app really is a remarkable piece of kit. Its Sound ID feature tells you the type of bird you can hear after recording only a few β¦
Feb 7, 2024: Finished reading: Wild Mind by Natalie Goldberg. This book was recommended at a poetry event I attended a few months back. Thought-provoking advice on β¦
Feb 1, 2024: Canβt remember how I stumbled upon The Odin Project web development curriculum, but Iβm glad I did. I like the way it points you where to go to dig β¦
Jan 28, 2024: Italian Sundays are made for passeggiatas. Hereβs a shot from our stroll today in central Lecce.
Jan 25, 2024: Hit a 77-day streak on Duolingo today. The gamification of studying Italian is working wonders. Duolingo has become a daily habit, and this also β¦
Jan 22, 2024: Enrolled in Harvard’s CS50x: Introduction to Computer Science course. Enjoyed working through an older version of this years ago before β¦
Jan 15, 2024: Finished reading: Dickens and Prince by Nick Hornby. It’s a niche one for sure, but right up my alley. These two geniuses had more in common β¦
Jan 14, 2024: Whoa, weβre half way there πΆ
Jan 12, 2024: Finished reading: The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play by Neil A. Fiore π
Jan 10, 2024: Finished working my way through the Learning How to Learn course on Coursera. This was recommended as a helpful resource at the start of The Odin β¦
Jan 8, 2024: When I close my computer and head outside, sometimes it feels like Iβve stepped through a time machine instead of a door.
Jan 8, 2024: Finished reading: Dreyer’s English by Benjamin Dreyer π
Jan 6, 2024: In a chapter in Baseball 100 about Japanese baseball player Sadaharu Oh, Joe Posnanski compares baseball training in Japan to spring training in the β¦
Jan 5, 2024: I’m currently listening to The Now Habit audiobook by Dr Neil Fiore. π Itβs about beating procrastination. My main takeaway so far is the idea β¦
Jan 4, 2024: Funny? Funny how? Watched a MasterClass video with the poet Billy Collins about reading and writing poetry. He made the point that it’s easy for anybody to β¦
Jan 2, 2024: Em dashes (β), en dashes (β) and hyphens (-) I’m currently rereading Dreyer’s English to brush up on some American grammar and enjoy the excellent prose of a man so in love with the β¦
Jan 1, 2024: This paddle boarder had the right idea. Need to get myself one of those for days when the sea is as beautiful as this.
Jan 1, 2024: Watched: Noam Chomsky’s ‘Independent Thinking and Mediaβs Invisible Powers’ course on MasterClass. π₯ Well worth the time. Being β¦
Jan 1, 2024: Finished reading: Chokepoint Capitalism by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow π
Dec 31, 2023: New year, new home for my thoughts. Let’s make writing here a habit in 2024.
Dec 31, 2023: Becoming a Digital Craftsperson My career has not exactly been a straight path. I have no regrets about that, I much prefer it that way. But itβs funny, because looking back at some β¦