Massive coffee nerd, climber, proud uncle, sales ops specialist, Australian. Based in Berlin.
This week was intense, more intense than expected, but as I sit and write this blog, birds chirping, trains running by on the tracks outside the apartment of my friend's place where I am staying; I feel a sense of calm that comes from knowing there's so much more to come on this journey. I've always dealt with seismic shifts in my life by running away, never running towards. I think back to my…
I love climbing and bouldering. Like, an inordinate amount, and it would not be a stretch to say that climbing has changed my life for the better since beginning this journey in 2019, as my climbing addicted friend and I walked the University of Canberra campus trying to find rocks and/or stairs and/or weird parts of walls to pull on (shoutout to Pearce for introducing me to this world!). I'm 36…
Did I ever tell you of the time I broke my little toe? No? Ah, man, it's a good story, and as with all good stories, it starts with coffee. I love coffee almost at a romantic level. I get excited to go to sleep not because I want to rest, but because I know that in the morning I get to spring out of bed, fly to the kitchen to flick on the kettle, and minutes later I get to imbibe whatever the…
These past weeks have been a lot. As I wrote about last week , one thing that has gotten me through whatever this is, has been what you are seeing right now: writing down my thoughts as a way of getting my mental cupboard tidied up, in order to be able to move forward while utilising the hopefully-organised-but-not-pedantically-so tools I store in said cupboard, that I can now actually find. It's…
Well, coming into today's session, I immediately noticed that after a long two weeks of a lot of upheaval, writing for myself every day, and training for this god damn marathon more than I have ever trained for anything in my life; that I had approximately nil to write about. But, I am a stubborn person and have started to learn the tricks of the brain when it comes to being able to force…
It's been a month now of writing (almost) every day and with it has come some interesting, if rather subtle, changes. Almost a month ago I had come across Herman's post on Active Recall and that kind of kicked off a secondary reason to journal that I think I'd been hoping for: utilising a neat trick to improve my memory; as journaling for journaling's hadn't quite become a settled necessity (yet).…
It really hasn't been that long since my last update on not drinking alcohol this year, but this week I hit the six-month milestone and I wanted to reflect a bit on this achievement as I felt a lot more strongly than I had expected to, and these days, after blogging for a fair amount of time, it seems the only way I have left to do that is to put pen-to-paper/hand-to-keyboard. On Tuesday, after I…
A colleague and I went for a run before starting work yesterday at 8am. We have a group at work who are usually keen for a jaunt around the local park together for a few kilometres, but after seeing what the temps were going to be like for the day, we thought it was perhaps a bit less, well, objectively dangerous, to go running in the morning instead. As we made our second circuit around the park,…
ChatGPT keeps using the word "collapse" when I talk to it. Why is that? Someone even said it to me at work the other day and I noticed, and I began to wonder if that was from being exposed to so much "collapsing" being fed to us from the models. Why are all concepts seemingly being needed to collapse into themselves? My search history alone in ChatGPT for the word "collapse" returned 51 hits since…
With his latest post on Active Recall and the post awhile back on keeping a journal.txt file, Herman made me realise that my memory is something I've been thinking about a bit recently and had started to worry it's been declining somewhat. It's time to do something about it. Ever since I stopped drinking, I've been acutely aware how much I'm not sure I remember correctly. I have started to wonder…