⚡️ Jamie's Micro blog

Visited Kailzie Gardens and Cafe for a wee winter walk. Not the best time for the plants, but still a lovely setting!

Glentress 10km trail race in 1:09. Lots of uphill, pleased with the time!

Evening stroll around the Meadows. A lovely chill in the air!

Dusted off the trail running shoes in preparation for next weekend in Peebles. 12km around the Braids this morning. Feeling good!

Sunday reading: Endure by Alex Hutchinson 📚

Loch Tummel, Trinafour and NCN7, 68km cycle.

Cycled from Perth to Pitlochry. Sunshine to mist and rain! Lots of autumn colours though! 🍂

Sunday morning reading: Exercised by Daniel Lieberman

Winnie Lim reviews Endure by Alex Hutchinson and talks about the connection between physical and mental performance and regulation:

For me, this just demonstrates the malleability of our minds and bodies. That they are capable of change, that we can probably push our limits further than we originally believed. We don’t have to be elite athletes to experience this change. In a positive feedback loop, any input will start the loop going.

Walk at Dalmeny

A glorious day! Spent the morning at Crail Harbour (with the beach toy library), beautiful views down the coast. Drove back via Loch Leven. A great short break 📸

Misty and windy morning walk at Kingsbarns, lunch and a wander in the bright sunshine at St Andrews, sunset walk at Anstruther with a fish supper 📸

Crail Harbour. In Fife for a few days 📸

Started reading: Slouching Towards Utopia by J. Bradford DeLong. One chapter in, It’s always stunning to read how much the world changed around 1870. So many connections, movements and developments! 📚

Tried out Muna’s Ethiopian Cuisine in Bruntsfield this eve - good food and a friendly atmosphere, busy for a Tuesday night!

Reading through the UK Foundations essay on investing in infrastructure.

Over the past two decades, Britain’s economy has needed a huge quantity of new housing, transport infrastructure and energy supply. Its postwar institutions have manifestly failed to deliver these. Britain is now a place in which it is far too hard to build houses and infrastructure, and where energy is too expensive. This has meant that our most productive industries have been starved of the resources, investment and talent – the economic foundations – that they need to grow.

I’ve edited and posted the video from Emmanuel’s talk on NX at EdinburghJS. You can find it on the Scottish Technology Club website: www.scottishtechnology.club/library/e…

The boy can now pick up and turn on my GoPro, gifting us a lovely set of videos from a toddler perspective

Sunday trip to the national museum with the boy to see the “air balloons” again

Cooking up a wee Sunday stew. Sausage, peppers, onion, tomato, celery, cayenne, garlic, paprika. 🍽️

“A person who is looking for beauty is likely to find wonders, while a person looking for threats will find danger. A person who beams warmth brings out the glowing sides of the people she meets, while a person who conveys formality can meet the same people and find them stiff and detached. “Attention,” the psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist writes, “is a moral act: it creates, brings aspects of things into being.” The quality of your life depends quite a bit on the quality of attention you project out onto the world.”

David Brooks, How to Know a Person

Started reading: How To Know a Person by David Brooks 📚

Human beings need recognition as much as they need food and water. No crueler punishment can be devised than to not see someone, to render them unimportant or invisible. “The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them,” George Bernard Shaw wrote, “but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.” To do that is to say: You don’t matter. You don’t exist.

This sentiment is why I don’t like it when people refer to others as NPCs

Good gym session with Pete. Really helps to have someone to hang out with and motivate you to lift on a weekly basis!

Kirkcudbright harbour with H. 📸

Brighouse Bay 📸