Notes
Short posts, quick brain dumps, interesting bits and bobs that don’t warrant a longer post.
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Dense Discovery newsletter
Dense Discovery is, and I’ll quote the lovely website here: One email worth opening, every week Thoughtful links across design, tech, culture and art – hand-picked weekly to inspire reflection, not reaction. And yes, you should go and subscribe right now (I’ll wait). I’ve been a subscriber since February 2023 and the eagle eyed among…
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The Bear
Rewatching the old seasons ahead of the new one. Wow. I forgot how good this was. The way each character develops, the moments of chaos and moments of calm. The way it feels so real, so fucking raw at times. And then there is the Christmas episode which remains a very easy way to get…
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No notifications
I’m pondering removing badge notifications —those little red numbers if you use iPhone— from all my apps. I already keep my phone on silent and only allow a few core apps to display a notification. I think removing the badges is the next step. I’m try to get to a state of only picking up…
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AI, Mac Apps, Blogrolls, Substack
AI continues to be a hot topic. Be it the OpenAI/Apple spat, or the latest (clever) anti-AI pushback, or how it won’t ever attain consciousness, or how it feels to have people think your art was generated by AI when it clearly wasn’t. Elsewhere I find myself experimenting with some apps for my Mac. A…
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Mountain Bikes and Wild Fires
The heavens have opened, thunderstorms are threatened, and yet the wildfires still burn —the rain is useful but gets caught in the pine forest canopy and not enough of it falls onto the still burning peat below. It was sunny this morning though, and so I took my new shiny gorgeous mountain bike out for…
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Farewell Weeknotes?
I may — and I retain the right to reverse this decision — be stopping my week notes posts. I find them useful in terms of looking back over the past week to reflect on moments from my life, the media I’ve consumed etc, but by and large they are starting to feel a little…