I’ve been pretty quiet online this week. Long week at work, frigid temps outside, feel like I’m just trying to keep my head above water. Really thankful it’s Friday.

2025 Reads: How to Make Sense of Any Mess by Abby Covert 📚

Fine, for what it was. More a pamphlet than a book…

2025 Reads: The World According to Physics by Jim Al-Khalili 📚

What a wonderful little book! As clearly written as you would hope for an intro, while not sacrificing depth.

2025 Reads: The MANIAC by Benjamin Labatut 📚

Phew, what a novel. Stunning stuff.

A chilly 13F outside and this is the warmest it’s going to be until Friday…. Oof.

Daily forecast for the next week showing highs in the single digits F and lows in double digits below zero

Completely lost lock on Valentine’s Day until early yesterday. Snuck a little shopping in yesterday afternoon, will survive to see another one. 😂

(Had already planned dinner out for last night. Nobody goes out for dinner on Valentine’s Day proper, it’s too busy.)

Somehow at work I ended up with a 6:30 AM Zoom call and a 3 PM Zoom call today. On a Friday. Oof. (Might go hit the gym after lunch and before the 3pm.)

2025 Reads: Tech Agnostic by Greg Epstein 📚

Not sure I buy his thesis, but it’s an interesting argument.

Well I didn’t really feel like 90 minutes of snow blowing tonight, but it beats the heck out of 90 minutes of snow blowing at 6 AM tomorrow.

WFH today means I’m using my BeyerDynamic DT 990 Pro headphones for Zoom calls. I had forgotten how good they sound! I usually use Shure E2c in-ears at the office to avoid the look of having cans on my ears, and they’re fine, but they’re not DT990 good.