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• 2025

  April

  • Are You Buying the Product – or the Praise?
  • Dwight Schrute Is My Life Coach
  • Weeknotes – 1748 of 4175
  • This Post Is Only 80% Finished

  March

  • The Cultural Fade of Rick and Morty
  • Weeknotes – 1747 of 4175
  • Weeknotes – 1744 of 4175
  • Weeknotes – 1743 of 4175

  February

  • Heroism in the Age of Dishwashers
  • The Wistfulness of Your 30s
  • You Don't Need More Content – You Need Better Attention
  • Dr Pepper
  • Weeknotes (1742/4175)
  • 'James Bond to be made by Amazon as British creators step back' →
  • Hunter S. Thompson died 20 years ago today
  • Weeknotes – February 10-16, 2025

  January

  • '10,046 out-of-copyright works, free for all to browse, download, and reuse' →

• 2024

  October

  • How Andrew Roberts writes his diary
  • On Writing: Short Enough to Finish, Long Enough to Matter
  • ADHD and the Struggle With Internal Expectations

  September

  • ADHD and the Burden of Possessions

  July

  • The Ron Swanson Approach: Birthdays for Introverts

  June

  • Your brain is not a computer →
  • 1920’s depression treatment: lots of milk and lots of nothing
  • 1930’s Protective Foods
  • Millenarianism
  • Give me some citations please
  • Late bedtimes might harm your mental health, even if you're a nightowl

  May

  • Asket and stupid marketing experiments
  • Big projects, small favours: Boost your work reputation by nailing the extremes
  • Travel? Meh
  • Arun.is →
  • Film Review: The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
  • The 19th Century's Lottery for Life
  • 'Stop Acting Like You're Famous' →

  April

  • 4000 Weeks: Embracing Limits for a Fuller Life
  • Little Links & Notes 8: Writing Hacks and the Pain of Existence

• 2023

  December

  • Using a Shell Script to Automate the Building and Deploying of My Hugo Blog
  • Movie Review: Your Christmas Or Mine? (2022)
  • Shane MacGowan Has Died
  • Little Links & Notes 7

  April

  • Little Links & Notes 6

• 2022

  July

  • A Stopped Watch
  • Lilacs and War
  • Little Links & Notes 5
  • Little Links & Notes 4
  • Little Links & Notes

  March

  • Can’t Afford the Gas to Cook
  • Tolkien, Orwell and Simple Living
  • Little Links & Notes
  • Little Links & Notes
  • Legs Look Weird
  • Low Birth Rates and High War Deaths
  • Economic Sanctions Cause Discomfort in a Very Comfortable Modern World
  • Enablers of dirty Russian money in London + What's an 'Unexplained Wealth Order'?
  • Just pay Russian soldiers to surrender?
  • 'Why the Russians Are Struggling' →
  • Sigmund Freud aged 26 and 36
  • “Humanity is just not what I think it is.”

  February

  • Highly anticipated experiences are often underwhelming
  • 'My first web3 webpage' →
  • February 26th, 2022
  • A Trip to Windsor Castle
  • Review: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
  • Friday, February 18th, 2022
  • 'Evolutionary anthropologist Herman Pontzer busts myths about how humans burn calories—and why' →
  • The Chronicles of the Rings
  • Pencil drawing or satellite image?
  • One third of all Swiss exports are drugs
  • Wealth is money you don't spend →
  • WordPress -> Hugo part 2
  • Stealing the word "Freedom"
  • WordPress --> Hugo
  • Caffeine, late nights and book introductions
  • Feminine exclamation
  • Review: The Last Dance
  • Review: The Power of the Dog (2021)
  • Some links
  • Attempting yoga for the first time

  January

  • Review: The Alpinist (2021)
  • Some links
  • CloudFront's first 1TB of bandwidth is free
  • Some links
  • Today's lunch
  • 1994 Instagram
  • Websites seem to have a different sort of downtime nowadays
  • Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
  • How To with John Wilson (Season 2)
  • I only want TV shows that have ended, and ended well
  • The North Water (Season 1)
  • Brandon Taylor's Substack
  • Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)
  • The French Dispatch (2021)
  • The Watch (2012)
  • 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible (2021)
  • Black Knight (2001)
  • The Economists 'daily briefing'
  • Random webpages #1

• 2021

  December

  • "And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on evil.
  • "Plotting over brandy." Terry Pratchett on evil.
  • Confident and proud? Or arrogant?
  • The Mandrake Plant

  September

  • Friday, September 17th, 2021
  • Photos of Americans and their pets from 125 years ago
  • Wednesday, September 15th, 2021
  • 'Going private: Increasing numbers of Britons are abandoning the NHS and paying for medical treatment'
  • Franz Liszt by Henri Lehmann
  • You can own the 'speakers on wheels' rig from Mad Max: Fury Road!
  • Michael Chapman has died
  • 'Instead'
  • Eat, sleep and feel better
  • When to quit a bad book
  • 'Anti-Aging: State of the Art'
  • Effeminate looking men banned from Chinese television
  • People keep on using 'gaslighting' incorrectly
  • Will you get a day off work when the Queen dies? Is it a bank holiday?
  • The actor who plays the Know-It-All kid in the Polar Express looks exactly how I'd expect him to look
  • Cunningham's Law
  • Salman Rushdie's next novel will be serialised on Substack

  August

  • 'China to Cleanse Online Content That ‘Bad-Mouths’ Its Economy'
  • Amazon's Lord of the Rings TV show explained. What can they film?
  • 'The Mormon Church Amassed $100 Billion. It Was the Best-Kept Secret in the Investment World.’
  • 'UK truck driver shortage signals a broken labour market'
  • Dickens house
  • Landlord Lloyds
  • 'Hospitality crisis deepens chef shortages'
  • 'Ben Franklin’s bitter regret that he didn’t immunize his 4-year-old son against smallpox'
  • Choose an expert
  • There's always some dude inexplicably loving it

  July

  • Just invest

  February

  • Watched – Week 5, 2021
  • The Power of Netflix
  • The Price of Whisky

  January

  • Watched – Week 4, 2021
  • 'How Many Microcovids Would You Spend on a Burrito?'
  • Outlaws
  • Pay-as-You-Go Reading
  • The Man Who Invited the World Over for Dinner
  • January 26th, 2021
  • Dressing Gowns Are Stupid
  • 'Their Noses Paid the Bills. Then COVID Took Their Sense of Smell'
  • 'Woman Is Sentenced to 43 Years for Criticizing Thai Monarchy'
  • Brutalism
  • The Parler U.S. Capitol Riot Video Archive
  • 'Inside Twitter’s Decision to Cut Off Trump'
  • Dr Martens To Go Public
  • Snow and the iPhone