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I’ve lived here a while now and this bank of light switches remains a guessing game every time.

I signed up to Glass again.

My son and I went to Dwellingup Tree Top Rope Climb Adventures. Huge fun. Perfect gloomy weather but without rain, kept others away. So we had plenty of space to enjoy the zip lines and climbs. I pushed myself at the end doing a hard circuit. The fatigue really kicked in the for the old man!

I did not have high hopes for Cape Fear on Apple TV+. I was wrong. The cinematography is next level. Music is great. Dramatic tension feels old timey and yet modern. I’m a fan. 📺

I’ve been getting into The Brain again. I’m currently liking it more than Obsidian for my work notes. I like that relationships become more visible and tangible.

I thought my 2019 iMac was a dust gathering paperweight. Turns out, with the price of RAM, it’s 32 GB RAM upgrade might actually be my retirement nest egg.

WWDC26: The macOS apology tour.

Perth by night. 📷

I was mighty impressed with Your Friends & Neighbours committing fully to the set dressing. She wasn’t writing her book in Pages, as we so often see. She was writing it in Scrivener, and she even had a full sidebar. I had to stop and take a photo. 📺

Have a Fucking Website - Other Strangeness — merritt k: if you are a business or an individual artist or creator, have a fucking website. “But-” fuck you, have a fucking website. Couldn’t have said it better myself. Link discovered via Flamed Fury.

When the AI hype bubble bursts, a lot of people (myself included via my superannuation fund) are going to get burnt. I find using an LLM useful at the margins; I’m glad I’m not working in a company or industry that has a belief it is the great messiah - only to find out the costs are blowing out… I do love how Ed Zitron writes about this stuff in his latest piece, AI Doesn’t Have ROI. I’ve cherrypicked a few good quotes from a great and long article that I encourage you to read. You spent a…

The Hemispheric Views June-boree Challenge is up and away! It’s not too late to join in and have some fun with us. Prizes and global fame awaits!

Watched: The Mandalorian and Grogu 🍿I took my teenager to see this. It was good if considered an extended TV episode. I think Jeremy Allen White was a miscast; his voice didn’t work for me in the role of Rotta.

I held a silver medal from Tokyo 2020 Olympics. It was heavy.

Currently reading: Gravity Let Me Go - A Novel by Trent Dalton 📚

Currently reading: Raising Good Humans A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids by Hunter Clarke-Fields 📚

Australian interest rates up another 0.25%. Thanks in large part to the Orange one. The portion of Australians who own a mortgage doing the heavy lifting once again.

Watched: The Outfit 🍿 Would have been better as a stage play.

Watched: Project Hail Mary 🍿I’ve seen it twice at the cinema and loved it both times.

Currently reading: The Truth about Managing People by Stephen P. Robbins 📚Found this deep in my backlog. Let’s see what it’s all about.

Finished reading: Transforming the Difficult Child by Howard Glasser 📚 I bought this several years ago but have only now read it. I wasn’t ready for it at the time, but I wish I had been. Set aside the dated terminology, I believe the lessons to be solid.

I watched Project Hail Mary at the cinema for a second time today, this time I was being a Dad to my boys. It was just as much fun a second time around.

Finished reading: Top Five Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware 📚The fact is took me about 2 years to get through probably indicates I didn’t really vibe with this one.

I can’t decide if the creation of an ‘am dash’ is a clever rethinking or a sad reflection of what has happened to writing. I also think most people won’t notice the difference and will just assume it’s a font-specific em dash, thus rendering the whole effort worthless.

Finished reading: Atomic Habits by James Clear 📚Finally read this about 8 years after my intention. Most stuff was familiar and it was a straightforward read.

Yesterday evening I quipped about the romanticism of being awake in the middle of the night, doing great thinking. This morning, after unintentionally getting only 3 hours sleep, the concept seems decidedly less romantic.

Bag 15 complete. Lego set complete!

It’s totally normal that I have a long-running Google Gemini conversation about personal finance, with it using analogies to lean manufacturing theory, and tieing actions back to the GTD methodology, right? Everyone does this, yeah? 🤓

Episode 159 of Hemispheric Views podcast! The Australians are falling apart. @Burk is moving a million pounds. We try on a thought experiment. █████ is back! @martinfeld brings up a train, and by doing so, some trauma for me!