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"Independence + Purpose = Happiness" Morgan Housel Morgan Housel has a tidy little formula for a good life. Independence means controlling your own time. Purpose means having a reason to get out of bed that someone else did not assign to...
Due to sports hall availability there was only one day of basketball this week, so I decided to do back-to-back sessions on Monday. Three hours of basketball in total. I've been complaining a lot in previous week notes that I have been...
During a recent visit to Vienna I stayed in Superbude Wien Prater, a very hip, modern hotel directly next to the famous amusement park. With its roots in Hamburg it’s no surprise that this hotel targets a younger customer group with a...
Finished my 2025 Christmas presents for real, this time, back in February (though apparently I never actually published this post), with a pair of linen sleeve protectors. While the documentation I gathered back in the day suggested that...
07:51 For a while there were more falls and faults than football there. #WorldCup 08:02 It had to happen - Switzerland were playing a lot more aggressive football than Argentina. Scores tied! #WorldCup Reply to this post
😫 🤷 😡 😭 🫠 It has been 202 days since I broke my hip in a freak bike accident. 6 months, 2 weeks, 5 days. My last update on this series of unfortunate events was at 80 days on March 13th. That is because not much has changed. I gave up on...
I just shared good news about my heart journey, and now I can finally share another medical milestone for 2026: my cataract surgeries are done and my vision is back. For the last couple of years, my sight kept slipping, no matter how...
A few days ago I wrote a post entitled Does additional data always reduce posterior variance?. In a nutshell, the answer is no, not always. That led the previous post which looked at posterior means for three Bayesian models, showing how...
Elephant Hawk MothAs Summer is now in full swing, and Benno has been doing some excellent writing about his fishing adventures, I thought that it was only fair that I upheld my end of the bargain too and did some writing, so I'm going to...
Yesterday we had a fabulous day out at the city aquarium here in Quebec City. The OH surprised me at breakfast saying they’d booked tickets online for us, and had ordered a taxi for 9:30 am to get there — this mostly because the city,...
(Full Canada holiday writeup to come) Got ~1 hour sleep on the plane, and ~1 hour in the cab home, so didn't get going to pick up Cookie right away from Anna's parents - but after some caffeine I was ready to drive us to pick up Cookie...
(Full Canada holiday writeup to come) Reading: Tiamat's Wrath Leviathan Falls Watched: The Drama (2026) Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022) Switzerland vs Algeria (World Cup 2026) Canada vs Morocco (World Cup 2026)
A busy week before our trip to Canada 🎉 (Full Canada holiday writeup to come) It was very toasty this week As a way to reduce the overall heat, I ended up leaving my PC off while working, and found that worked quite well - but does mean...
Writing this week’s greeknotes on my balcony at 10pm, it’s a shade below 30ºC. Hot and sunny all week, pretty much just 30ºC, 24/7, cooler than the UK this week! With the exception of an unexpected but brief storm on thursday – the day I...
Alex West wrote Not Business Advice , a free series of 13 short books about building profitable personal projects, compiled from the daily blog posts he’s written since 2018. It’s the story of how he made over $1M from his own side...