Weeknotes 2026 W26: The heat

Quick bits The heat! Ugh! I skipped going to the office all week, because I did not want to die. My initial plan was to use the coworking1 space near me instead, because it has AC, but the AC was turned way down and the cold airflow made me nauseous, and I couldn’t get the Wi-Fi to work there either. So I stuck to my temp studio, where I’ve been suffering; having windows only on one side meant I couldn’t get any airflow going. At least it wasn’t as hellishly hot as it was in Berlin. I’ve come to realise that I am prone to getting barometric pressure headaches — you know, the kind of headache that tells you a storm is approaching. Psychic. When I casually threw in a comment last week about how it’s madness to orient maps in the direction of travel, I had no idea that I would stir up some controversy. Oh my! How divisive. And it’s not even a clear split: different circumstances call for different types of map usage. (I still don’t rotate my maps.) Yesterday I attended my first-ever…