Caffeine and morning roll to chase away the jet lag @ Flat White Cafe

Made it to Sydney!

Switched out the newborn seat for the high chair seat. It’s incredible how fast these changes happen. We have a boy that sits up!

The Age of Average

Who or where is doing different? Is this actually true, or just what we are exposed to via the middle class AirBnb city-hopping lifestyle?

Using ChatGPT to brainstorm an itinerary for our New Zealand trip. It’s useful for scaffolding out ideas which we can then tweak.

Added a new testimonial from Lesley at BoCreate to my business website https://www.telaco.com - we’ve just wrapped up the first version of the product.

A nice interview with Pete Wands, Edinburgh Street Photographer on YouTube

Back at EH3 Milers this evening 🏃

Finished reading: Red Crosses by Sasha Filipenko 📚

“Ordinary people . . . Papa often repeated: ordinary people. An impregnable combination of words, don’t you think? An ordinary person . . . What is that? A parasite who does mean things or a nameless hero who performs a feat of bravery? An ordinary person . . . How many of them have I had a chance to meet? Fate has presented me with hundreds of versions but has never given me the correct answer.”

🎶 Radiant Bloom, Astronoid

shoegaze metal-ish with a dreamy vigour

Thinking about Why so many elites feel like losers, Freddie deBoer.

What role models of success do I have? What role models are healthy for society in general? What success has intrinsic worth? What success is about the type of person you will be?

Started reading: Red Crosses by Sasha Filipenko 📚

Finished reading: Red Plenty by Francis Spufford 📚

Read: How the Netherlands built a cycling utopia, Distilled

🎶 Glorious Sunset, Hundred Reasons

Gig last month: www.instagram.com/p/CpECzql…

A beautiful day in the neighbourhood 📸

🎶 Love me Forever, Pinkshift rock pop punk

Announced the next EdinburghJS meetup: 23rd March. WebGL & text-wrangling/ML.

Just submitted assessment four of five for my OU course on politics 🎓

Breakfast browsing: An Everlasting Meal by Tamar Adler 📚

Started reading: Red Plenty by Francis Spufford 📚

Ken White

When I said the incendiary and provocative thing, intending that you would react, I was not actually being incendiary or provocative. I was being thoughtful, and deep… When you say I am contradicting myself, you fail to recognize I am in a Platonic dialogue with myself, and both sides of myself are winning.

Can we still build the world we live in?

The Shape of Metal

Reading The Economist on the decline of car usage by young people.

As an economic, and social imperative we need to design the urban environment to enable car-free living.

“The city of Jacksonville, Florida, for instance, spreads across 875 square miles. With around 1m residents, that makes it only about twice as densely populated as the whole of England, only around 8% of which is classified as “urban”.”

It seems that “car-free” behaviour can persist, which gives me hope for change.

The Convivial Society - The prompt box

I care far less about whether an AI is sentient than I do about the fact that in certain states an AI could, bereft of motive or intention, so easily trigger or reinforce the darkest patterns of thought in our own heads.

And this is to say nothing of how those tilting toward violence could likewise be goaded into action—a senseless technology mimicking our capacity for sense inducing what we call senseless acts of violence.