Category: Misc
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Fake Science
Fake Science is a beautiful term. It perfectly captures the art of defining a metric, taking measurements, analysing those data points, and continually generating a complex output before chaining it to other inputs for yet more bullshittery. This is something I see almost on a daily basis, and it gets to the core of what…
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Honeymooning in Crete
A memory bank of our time away on the beautiful island of Crete. Take Off The journey is the reward – so say those beyond the finish line – but I’ll agree that the buoyancy that appears in the days leading up to a holiday is wonderful. While I’m typically dialling up my stress levels…
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Health Debt
When you’re young you’re made of rubber and magic (to quote Chris Williamson). Your body is primed to go full bore into the world and hammer through life at full speed. You’re in absolute health credit – you just don’t know it. But as you age, you effectively spend down that credit and most people…
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Nuance is a shitty sales tactic
I love nuanced ideas, conversations, and people. The world exists as a continuous flux and everything is relative. But people buy the simple solution, even if you need to explain the nuance you should lead with the most simple, reductionist argument you possibly can. And in that spirit, that’s the end of the post.
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Junk Time Buffets
Do you feel like you don’t have the time to accomplish all the things you’d like to? Do you wind up exhausted at the end of a day thinking damn, where did the time go? Perhaps you run down the list of things you’d set out to achieve this month one evening, and lament the…
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You are a verb not a noun.
Nouns are an illusion. A product of our inability (or blatant disregard) to perceive changes in the things around us over a time period that would typically let us categorise them as verbs. Things that move are easy to cast as verbs – to walk, to dance, to sing. States of being can quite happily…
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The Binary Attention Model
Fresh bruschetta is divine. Tomatoes blushing the deepest of reds. Garlic oil infushing the toasted ciabatta with sharp spikes of flavour. Fresh basil slicing through the rich tastes, elevating each bite. Even better by the sea…the light, warm breeze carrying salty notes and distant musicality of the waves breaking against the shoreline. Cool white wine…
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Apple’s Expanded Protections for Children
This week Apple announced that they were introducing a handful of new features to iOS and iCloud which were targeted at detecting child pornography in iMessage and Photos. Naturally a cacophony of young, childless, males on Hacker News erupted to claim that all idea privacy was now moot, that end-to-end encryption was now nonsense. Articles…
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Chinese Fried Rice
Ingredients 150g White Rice 1 Carrot 1 White Onion 3 Cloves Garlic ½ Aubergine ½ Courgette 1tbsp Coconut Oil 2 Veg Stock Cubes 🧂 Salt & Pepper ½ tsp Chinese Five Spice ½ tsp Chilli Powder 2 tbsp Soy Sauce 1 tbsp Sesame Seed Oil 1 tbsp Vinegar Method Place your rice into a large…
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Classic Tomato Pasta
Ingredients 1 Carrot 1 Onion 2 Cloves Garlic 3tbsp Olive Oil 200g Fusilli Pasta 50g Chestnut Mushrooms 80g Spinach 60ml Red Wine 4tbsp Lemon Juice 1tbsp Vinegar 1tbsp Tomato Puree 1tbsp Basil 1tbsp Oregano 1 Can Plum/Chopped Tomatoes 🧂Salt & Pepper Method Cook your pasta according to the packaging. Meanwhile, peel and roughly chop your…