: Finished reading: Graphic Design: The New Basics by Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips 📚
: Finished reading: The Pragmatic Programmer by David Thomas and Andrew Hunt 📚
: The restaurant in Masseria Montenapoleone doesn’t disappoint. It’s a beautiful masseria in the …
: Finished reading: The Situation and the Story by Vivian Gornick 📚
: Finished reading: Grid Systems in Graphic Design by Josef Müller-Brockmann 📚
: Finished reading: Dart by Alice Oswald 📚
: Taverna del Porto in Puglia, Italy. The food is as good as the view.
: Finished reading: The Thing with Feathers by Noah Strycker 📚
: Finished reading: Against the Machine by Paul Kingsnorth 📚 If you agree wholeheartedly with …
: Finished reading: Speed & Scale by John Doerr 📚
: Finished reading: Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner 📚
: Finished reading: Selected Poems by John Clare 📚
: Finished reading: Trading in the Zone by Mark Douglas 📚
: Finished reading: The Rattle Bag by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes 📚
: I asked Gemini to give me a list of science fiction movie recommendations to help convert my …
: Finished reading: The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman 📚
: Finished reading: The 10x Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure by Grant Cardone 📚
: Finished reading: Hacking Growth by Sean Ellis 📚
: Finished reading: Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick 📚
: It’s always a pleasure to take this gentleman for a walk in the English countryside. This is a …
: Finished reading: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green 📚
: Philosopher Jonathan Wolff in his introduction to An Introduction to Political Philosophy: We must …
: Finished reading: The Kids by Hannah Lowe 📚
: Finished reading: Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig 📚
: Grotta della Poesia in Salento is beautiful at this time of the year.
: Finished rereading: Rework by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson 📚
: Published: Why Sustainability Is Your Smartest Long-Term Business Strategy 📝
: Finished reading: Company of One by Paul Jarvis 📚
: Finished reading: How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates 📚
: Published: SaaS Retention and Engagement: 10 Things to Get Right 📝
: My home office now feels more like home.
: Finished reading: Being Alive by Neil Astley 📚
: Just like it used to be @ Masseria le Stanzìe in Puglia.
: Finished reading: Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug 📚
: Published: #4 of the Greener Returns newsletter 📝
: Finished reading: Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari 📚
: Finished reading: The Future We Choose by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac 📚
: Published: #3 of the Greener Returns newsletter 📝
: Finished reading: Selected Poems by Dylan Thomas 📚
: A shot from our walk this morning in Santa Caterina, Nardò.
: Published: #2 of the Greener Returns newsletter 📝
: Finished reading: What’s Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies by Tim Urban 📚
: Published: #1 of the Greener Returns newsletter. 📝 This is a new project of mine. Here’s a link …
: Finished reading: Orbital by Samantha Harvey 📚
: Finished reading: Poems by William Blake, selected and introduced by Patti Smith 📚
: Great quote from Hunter S. Thompson: “It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you …
: Finished reading: Principles of Sustainable Finance by Dirk Schoenmaker and Willem Schramade 📚
: Finished reading: A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver 📚
: Finished reading: Stasiland by Anna Funder 📚
: Some useful definitions of diction, tone and voice from Mary Oliver’s A Poetry Handbook. Diction: …
: Finished reading: A Life on Our Planet by Sir David Attenborough 📚
: Finished reading: A Path Through the Jungle by Prof Steve Peters 📚 What a fantastic book. Strongly …
: Delighted to have been awarded a distinction in my journalism diploma from the London School of …
: Finished reading: Invisible Doctrine by George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison 📚
: Finished reading: How to Read a Poem by Terry Eagleton 📚
: As the dust settles on the US election result, those who care about what it means for the climate …
: Sir Jonathan Bate has commented on the shift from humanities to STEM subjects among students seeking …
: Venus is shining bright as the sun goes down. Seems like the only star in the sky.
: Finished reading: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou 📚
: Every now and then something happens in my life that reminds me of the importance of having a …
: Big fan of iA Writer. Its measured approach to incorporating AI in its writing tool is interesting. …
: Stopped for a lunchtime drink at a bar in Rome and, unknown to me, a French girl sitting at the next …
: The room in Rome where John Keats died.
: Walked past some old building in Rome around sunset tonight.
: “Being kind to others is mostly about your actions. Being kind to yourself is mostly about your …
: Finished reading: The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson 📚
: A beach at the Porto Selvaggio nature reserve in Salento. You need to walk through woods for 30 …
: Finished working my way through the Earth’s Changing Climate course by Professor Richard …
: Great article by Helen Thomson in The Observer about the mental health benefits of taking walks in …
: Finished reading: Cosmos by Carl Sagan 📚
: Finished reading: Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks 📚
: Finished reading: The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray 📚
: Finished reading: A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle 📚
: I’ve been looking for a markdown editor that’s nice to use, keeps everything in sync and …
: Finished reading: Ultra-Processed People by Chris van Tulleken 📚
: Finished reading: Vulture Capitalism by Grace Blakeley 📚
: I’ve been comparing Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro with OpenAI’s GPT-4o. The consensus …
: Finished reading: The Cold War by Odd Arne Westad 📚
: Finished reading: The Collected Poems by Robert Frost 📚
: Finished reading: Poetry in the Making by Ted Hughes 📚 This is a great short book about poetry and …
: Finished reading: The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe 📚
: Finished reading: The Inferno by Dante 📚
: This quote from software engineer Kent Beck pretty much sums up where I keep going wrong. “By far …
: Young vines preparing to soak up the summer sun.
: Finished reading: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho 📚
: Finished reading: Bright Wings by Billy Collins 📚 Drawings of birds and poems about birds. …
: Over recent months this website has morphed into a public log of my reading. I’m ok with that. …
: Finished reading: Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris 📚 Funny and beautifully written.
: Finished reading: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 📚
: Finished reading: Regenesis by George Monbiot 📚
: Finished reading: Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad by Austin Kleon 📚
: It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking that you just are who you are, forgetting the power you …
: Finished reading: Building a StoryBrand by Donald Miller 📚
: Apple recently shared a great Q&A with its UX writing team from last year’s WWDC. Lots of …
: Interesting to hear Malcolm Gladwell talk about his writing process on MasterClass. He shared how he …
: Finished reading: The Creative Act by Rick Rubin 📚
: Finished reading: Naples ‘44 by Norman Lewis 📚
: This has been a year of discovering American sports. Feels like they never stop, except for the ads. …
: The Merlin Bird ID app really is a remarkable piece of kit. Its Sound ID feature tells you the type …
: Finished reading: Wild Mind by Natalie Goldberg. This book was recommended at a poetry event I …
: Can’t remember how I stumbled upon The Odin Project web development curriculum, but I’m glad I did. …
: Italian Sundays are made for passeggiatas. Here’s a shot from our stroll today in central Lecce.
: Hit a 77-day streak on Duolingo today. The gamification of studying Italian is working wonders. …
: Enrolled in Harvard’s CS50x: Introduction to Computer Science course. Enjoyed working through …
: Finished reading: Dickens and Prince by Nick Hornby. It’s a niche one for sure, but right up …
: Whoa, we’re half way there 🎶
: Finished reading: The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying …
: Finished working my way through the Learning How to Learn course on Coursera. This was recommended …
: When I close my computer and head outside, sometimes it feels like I’ve stepped through a time …
: Finished reading: Dreyer’s English by Benjamin Dreyer 📚
: In a chapter in Baseball 100 about Japanese baseball player Sadaharu Oh, Joe Posnanski compares …
: I’m currently listening to The Now Habit audiobook by Dr Neil Fiore. 📚 It’s about beating …
: Em dashes (—), en dashes (–) and hyphens (-) I’m currently rereading Dreyer’s English to brush up on some American grammar and enjoy …
: This paddle boarder had the right idea. Need to get myself one of those for days when the sea is as …
: Watched: Noam Chomsky’s ‘Independent Thinking and Media’s Invisible Powers’ course …
: Finished reading: Chokepoint Capitalism by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow 📚
: New year, new home for my thoughts. Let’s make writing here a habit in 2024.
: Becoming a Digital Craftsperson My career has not exactly been a straight path. I have no regrets about that, I much prefer it that …