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The North Head of Sydney Harbour is always spectacular. It’s amazing how close to the city this is, yet it feels quite distinct. We weren’t alone; the early spring wildflowers were already out in force. Flannel flowers: an emblem of New...
Anyone have an at-home cold plunge setup they enjoy?
Feeling like summer in the middle of winter, but at least we are generating a lot of value for shareholders.
I know I'm guilty of just scanning OpenRouter's pricing tables and looking at input and output costs per million token. I've realised that's the wrong number to be focused on these days and cache read costs are actually far more...
After getting him his own laptop and desk setup for his 7th birthday, the joy of playing minecraft multiplayer with the kid will be tough to beat
I have decided to run for the inaugural/2026 Python packaging council (PPC). I will say I have the support of my employer (Microsoft) to do this, but they didn't ask me to and my usual thing that I would quit before I let any employer...
📝 I’m participating in Blaugust! And I create a page on my notebook to track my writing. I’ll share that in a different post soon. 📕 I abandoned a book I was reading for my local Book Club. It’s called “Amberlough” by Lara Elena...
It's been quite a hectic week at least by my standards, whatever they're measured against these days, where I accomplished quite a lot both on the home front, and the work front. It seems that the never-ending heat wave is exactly what...
Alexandrite members of the Alexandrian Youtube Channel can check out the latest After Action Report: This one taking a look at what a sequel session in my Mothership open table looks like. Check It Out!
Example from one of the worksheets Like a lot of my work, I take inspiration from many places. This post is going to reflexively unpack some of the process I used when taking the book Getting Research Funded: Five essential rules for...
Thank you to everyone who expressed interest in shaping OmFest. We’re still working out some details, but we’ve got a Luma registration page for the event up. Please join on September 29, 2026, Om’s 60th birth anniversary, for an...
The phone lit under a stack of hospice bills at 2:13 in the morning, and for a moment Mara thought some company had found one more way to ask for money from a dead man. She was sitting on the living room floor with bank statements spread...
Do you ever feel there’s too many ready-made answers that don’t fit your needs? Me too. That’s why I’m exploring an alternative: ’living questions’. Not quite Rilke, but also not not Rilke. writingslowly.com/living-qu… #NoteTaking...
In the wake of the letter calling on us to prepare to potentially Pace the Frontier, there has been much discussion of when pacing the frontier would be prudent, and whether it makes sense to prepare to do so. This has now been informed...
July was busy — like always — but we made sure to take some time and touch some grass. Or mountains in our case. With the high temperatures across Europe we went to the Trentino region and hike close to the Dolomites for 5 days. Cool...