Overcoming inertia

Experimenting with starting the week with weeknotes, perhaps as a momentum bump into the coming week. I say experimenting, it’s just this one. Easing back in by talking about stuff I’ve consumed.

I finished a really interesting book this week - ‘Every Living Thing’ by Jason Roberts. A biography of Linneaus and De Buffon, that ranged much wider than just biographical details, though it was great on the widely different outlooks and characters. I found myself relating so much back to my enjoyment of classifying and categorizing. Would recommend.

Things I’ve read from links I’ve saved. even though I acknowledge the sisyphean nature of saving links that doesn’t stop we doing it. And now I’m adding to the problem by sharing more.

• The missing bar, why we need X-shaped people in a digital world
• ‘Fracture’ serialisation part 1 – New tech observations from the UK
• Umberto Eco’s The Open Work: Summary and Critical Analysis
• Generalist World
• The treadmill got faster

On the subject of the endless nature of it all, The Last Quiet Thing by Terry Godier was a lovely find on Bluesky - well worth your time.