Recently, my iTunes decided that it was going to forget where all its files were. Not delete the files—that would be too obvious—but just decide to stop recognising the 100gb or so of audio files that it had been using quite happily for the last 4 years or

Hey folks, this is about weight loss. If that's something you don't want to read about, consider yourself warned. Also, it's not a condemnation of people who haven't been able to lose weight despite effort (which was me, for ages!) or people

I've been thinking about how I learn and retain information a bit lately. Listening to podcasts with some interesting, smart people who clearly think quite differently from me, I notice that they have a seemingly boundless capacity to recall specific facts in detail—names, places, relations, specific wording.

After Patreon changed and then un-changed their fee model change the other month, I was reminded of my ideal Patreon model: everybody gives a dollar a month to everything they like. No reward tiers, no fancy nonsense. A little bit from a lot of people seems more stable, more sustainable

When listening to a podcast recently, a remark by one of the hosts struck me. He persisted with books he wasn't enjoying because, he said, some part of his brain was convinced that then he'd get to tick that entry off on some infinite cosmic checklist.

This evening I managed to run for 10 minutes without stopping. This left me in a bizarrely euphoric state, frantically messaging various friends. JUST RAN FOR 10 MINUTES WITHOUT STOPPING STILL BUZZING I'll probably clean up and repost the piece I wrote last year about losing weight sometime

I've spent much of the last few days (weeks, really) putting off my year-review-and-planning process. This is one of those things I do where, when describing it to people, I realise that I treat my life like a job. Alex Vermeer's 8760 Hours system is the