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 📸

Garden in Kirkcudbright 📸

Thinking about business ecosystem change and growth:

So: if you had a child in 1946, at the start of Sony’s founding, that child would’ve been four years old in 1950, at the launch of Sony’s first tape recorder. They would’ve been 12 years old when Morita and Ibuka renamed the company to ‘Sony’. They would’ve been 22 years old in 1968, when Sony introduced the first Trinitron colour television, the same year they introduced the TC-100 cassette recorder. They would be 33 years old at the launch of the Walkman. This is how long it takes for a private company to change things.

from Cedric Chin

Picked up a charity shop bargain - I’ve already read Bourgeois Dignity on Kindle, but nice to get a hard copy to leaf through.

7km run in Hexham on a beautiful fresh morning 📸

Reading list: Tanner Greer on The Silicon Valley Canon 📚

Wee wander up at Harlaw and then lunch in the Balerno Inn. 📸

Started reading: Chip War by Chris Miller 📚

Finished Harlan Coben’s The Stranger. Enjoyable British mystery with lots of twists and turns. 📺

Zoo day 📸

Wee trip to the sea for Jack to run around: boats, little tractors, planes, kites and toast. Time of his life. 📸

First time out with Good Time Running Club along with NCT Dads, 13kn from Beach To Brewery, ending up at Cross Borders in Dalkeith.

Results are in: passed the OU module “The British Isles and the modern world” - now I need to decide if I have the time to do the final “year” of studying

Started reading: The Russo-Ukrainian War by Serhii Plokhy 📚

3km run before packing

Reading for the journey back to Edinburgh: Politics on the Edge by Rory Stewart 📚

Tunisian meal out at Maison Bleue, then I got a bottle of beer for a wee wander. I’m German now.

Lunch at Bloom, Berlin