Andrew Doran
Andrew Doran
I write here in order to work things out and understand myself better. I write here in order to put things down that I have been carrying around in my head, so I don’t need to carry them around anymore. I write here in order to capture a moment and have something that I can look back on, remembering what I thought and felt at the time.
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This week, multiple people sent me a link to Matt Shumer’s post that Something Big Is Happening. In the post, he sounds the alarm that AI is coming for most white-collar jobs. It’s definitely worth reading: If you extend the trend (and it’s held for years with no sign of flattening) we’re looking at AI that can work...
Adding email links to the bottom of each blog post is paying off. Someone emailed me with information about a problem with my indoor cycling trainer. With permission, I’ve updated the post so that anyone searching for the same issue can benefit.
February already. Can you believe it1? Although the month has changed, the weather has not, and it feels like an endurance test that is starting to get to me. It seems that it is always raining (and apparently, it is), with any glimpse of the sun just a teaser before it gets covered up by a blanket of cloud once...
I love that The Guardian has this as their main story on their homepage. There are so many newsletters that I would pay to subscribe to, if they weren’t hosted on Substack. The intent of the USA’s Section 230 was to allow them to refuse to host content like this. It’s a choice.
Pocket Casts’ AI-generated transcript of the Quiet Riot podcast thinks that Ryan just needs to shush.
Mark Kermode’s review of Melania (2026) is so good, and everything I expected it to be.
At a local car park. It’s good to differentiate your pricing. Someone printed this and thought “Yeah, that’s great.” This felt like another tough week. At the start, I was feeling run down, which I think was an after-effect of Saturday’s bike ride. Work was really busy, with multiple days consisting of back-to-back...
Just been to a preview of the new Jeff Buckley documentary, It’s Never Over (2025), followed by a Q&A with director Amy Berg. It’s a beautiful film and it was a wonderful evening. Berg asked who remembered being around when Buckley passed and called us old-timers. How has it been 30 years?
I’ve just finished reading Indie Microblogging by Manton Reece. This book covers a lot of ground, including plenty of detail on the philosophy behind the Micro.blog platform, as well as broader IndieWeb thinking more generally. Reading about these ideas a few years ago, and setting up an account on Micro.blog,...
Cyclists gathered in the early morning, getting ready to set off on the 209km Willy Warmer Audax ride. My group wouldn’t be back until well after dark. In retrospect, the first two weeks of January were a honeymoon period after the Christmas break. This week was much tougher. At work I started something, got...
Earth-Moon Connexions by El Anatsui, on display at the Tate Modern in London. I really enjoyed this week. A couple of projects came to a conclusion, something that is usually anticipated long in advance but never fails to feel like a little surprise when it happens. I spent four days in the office, partly to be...
Buying something from the Decathlon website and reached the checkout stage. My inside voice reads this as completely sarcastic.
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