Senses working overtime #458

1 My feeling this week

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2 Viewing: Yellowstone

3 Listening: Sonny Rollins' Work Time

Link to my blogpost is here.

4 Reading: Roderick Random and The Little Guide to Taylor Swift

Three quarters through the Tobias Smollett book now, and a colleague loaned a copy of the Taylor Swift guide - some great Tay Tay quotes that will appear on the Purdzilla Show in due course. 

I also read this article in Rolling Stone about how Trump and his allies are going after Taylor Swift. She'll win. No doubt.

And, The Guardian had an interesting article on why coffee shops all look the same.

5 Thinking: About time management on my Wednesdays

Overtime: Trading trust

Great post from Seth Godin. As he says:

Once you burn some trust, it’s almost impossible to earn it back. It took Harvard 400 years to become Harvard, Google about twenty to earn its position. This is the opportunity you’ve been waiting for–to become the one that earns the benefit of the doubt.

Being the low-trust option is hardly a spot worth fighting for.

Senses working overtime #454

 1 Feeling hot this week

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2 Listening: Cooled down by Jean-Luc Ponty's Mystical Adventures

3 Reading: Murakami and Smollett

“Some men are wise and some are otherwise.” (Tobias Smollett)

I continued with both of these during the week. Each has me hooked!

4 Watching: The Good Doctor - Season 2.

We continued to be hooked by the characters and storylines of The Good Doctor this week.

5 Listening: Michael Oher on what The Blind Side didn't show

Overtime: 

"The wedding is an event, love is a practice.

The graduation is an event, education is a practice.

The race is an event, fitness is a practice.

The heart, mind, and body are endless pursuits."

James Clear

Senses working overtime #452

1 Feeling this first week of January 2024:

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2 Reading: Elton John's Me

3 Re-reading: Roderick Random (Tobias Smollett)

As with Elton's book, I picked up a copy a year or so ago and they've been in the to-be-read pile ever since. Time to correct that.

I read the Smollett book when at University (so, over 40 years ago), and decided on a whim to buy a copy from The Little Red Bookstore. Now re-reading it with different eyes (I guess different brain too, but maybe not).

4 Listening: Thelonious Monk - Plays Duke Ellington

I'm enjoying a bit of a Monk-a-thon at present. If it's only one song you have time for, try Caravan.

5 Reading: About the sixties San Francisco band - The Charlatans

Overtime: