My company is adopting a new tool. There’s a presentation starting with the homepage. The main headline starts with “AI-powered” and I literally rolled my eyes. We’ve reached that point of AI. Using AI might make a lot of sense but leading with AI doesn’t tell me any benefit.

🎙️ Rory Sutherland on how micro-efficiencies lead to macro-inefficiencies.

Interesting interview with some great points on risk, creativity and behavioural psychology.

Living abroad achievement of the day: cancelling my old internet contract and getting a new one on my business account over the telephone. I usually go into a store to deal with this kind of thing as it’s so much easier to deal with weaker language skills face to face.

Ruh Ro! My (7 year old) iPad appears a bit bent. I think someone (possibly me) sat on it :S

Future career goal: CDJO — Chief Dad Joke Officer.

I think I can do it.

Taylor has released a limited edition Jacob Collier 5 string guitar (yes, 5. DAEAD). I love the idea of such a different approach to the guitar…but I wish they made a 100 /baby series version I might actually have the money for one day.

The next version of Logos Bible software is coming soon (and there’s a launch event explaining it). My initial experience of the AI features was a bit meh. But it’s improved and I adjusted to. Smart search alone is so great.

Playing around with Affinity designer for a sketchnote/infographic I’ve wanted to create for a while. I still have a load of trial time but haven’t given it a proper workout yet. It’s a real shift from using Procreate (which is no surprise to anyone, but still makes it tricky).

Back from Szczyrk - Polish mountain town

I spent the last week with my family down in a Polish mountain village going on walks, enjoying hearty food and making ample use of the Hotel pool and playroom. It wasn’t easy at times with two small rooms which meant we had to spend our evenings in the dark once the kids were asleep, but it was well worth it. And not bringing any work or projects with me was absolutely the right idea. I’m well rested which is exactly what I needed.

The pet eating fake story reminds me of the Brexit bus. It’s deliberately false so it just sucks up attention as people can’t help but say “there’s no evidence”. But what it has drawn attention to is how many Haitian immigrants have migrated…and that will scare the right people. And all you have to say is “well one person told me it happened to them.” and it doesn’t matter if there’s absolutely no evidence, that’s enough for some.