Beautiful brisk morning cycle out to Cramond. 🚲

Finished Principles by Ray Dalio (yet again I have a new years resolution to read more). An interesting book overall.

Some of the material reminded me of the ideas in “average is over” - where people and firms encode their knowledge into models, then use the machine answers to illuminate or help their decision making. This is probably something we’ll see more of with big data / org telemetry.

That said, much of this book is already available in free PDFs and articles by Dalio, and it did get a little repetitive (down into policy from principles). I’d love to hear about the workings of Bridgewater from other employees, to get a feel for how these ideas work in practice.

#book 📙

That’s my New Zealand trip over - sad to be leaving. It’s been a great two months of walking and exploring, with a lovely family Christmas at the end.

Heading back to Edinburgh via a two day layover in Melbourne to get a last wee bit of sun. ☀

Looking forward to coming back to NZ next year! 👋🇳🇿

Night view out over the bay - nice starry night here in Wellington. Playing with the long exposure on my camera. 📸 ✨🇳🇿 #newzealand #longexposure #stars

Figured I should learn about the place while I’m here. 🇳🇿📙

Last sun of the day in Wanaka. 🇳🇿 #newzealand

Got some nice views of some bird colonies around Oban yesterday evening from the boat. Penguins, shags and some albatross circling. 🇳🇿 #newzealand #travel

Went out on a boat last night - managed to see a group of Little Blue Penguins swimming around at dusk. Very excited! 😁🐧

This was 99% of my view last night - spent about an hour wandering in the bush by the hut, standing very still, and searching with a red light - then I saw a kiwi!

It was like a small sack of potatoes or comedy peanut with wee legs. Dashed out of the bush then pecked around for a while before running off again. Sadly too fast for a photo, but hopefully will get some tomorrow night. Lovely.

Ran into this wee guy on the evening walk. 👋 🌊