I’ve seen a lot about the fourth turning recently. I’ll admit my first reaction was that it seemed and interesting idea. At the same time, I had some major questions right from the off. It seamed very American centric, the more I’ve looked at the more it seems like it might be European - American. After I just saw a well known kinist christian figure share a video seemingly endorsing it (I’m not clicking on that!) and it made me wonder:what kind of people does this “prophetic” vision attract and why?

I can imagine those very critical of “Wokism” would be attracted as the author seams to say that we’re heading to a phase of returning to community values over individualism. I can also see why revivalist christians would like it. There were several great awakenings throughout American history and so it might seem prophetic of another one coming.

(I should add that the author seems to have a new book on the topic coming out so the reason I’m seeing this idea a lot is probably just because he’s promoting it).

Happy Trump indictment day however you celebrate yours. I remember when Trump indictment day was a rare and special day, now it seems like it’s just another day.

When I started blogging, the experts told me not to use hedging words like “I think” and “In my experience”. There’s value in that for sure, but it made me sound like a wannabe guru in topics I knew little about. Now, instead of writing “10 tips to …” I’m more likely to write “10 things I’ve tried” and discuss what works, why I think it works and invite you to share if you try it. Maybe it won’t work for you, and I’d be happy to hear that! Maybe I can learn some more nuance or what types of people it helps.

I’ve just moved from my tiny Ikea desk that I bought when lockdowns started to a 120x60cm standing desk (we’ve actually had it for a while but it’s a long story). The extra space is amazing! It’s the difference between feeling like everything was falling on me, and feeling like I can stretch!

A vegan Birthday lunch with my wife. Very tasty.

End of the work week. Time for my end of week review routine.

I’m really intrigued to see how obsidian properties work. So far I’ve been impressed by the features they add while keeping the simple text file approach.

“Nothing else in the world…not all the armies…is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.” – Victor Hugo, The Future of Man.

📹 Van Neistat’s rules of gift giving - YouTube Some great tips here. I love “Expensive, not costly”. My brother is good at these.

Ironically, I think I understand why Musk has done this rebrand now. Threads has stolen attention away from Twitter and presented it’s biggest threat to its existence. Musk needs to steal back attention and have something that points to a more positive future. The rebrand focuses attention back on them so even though they aren’t the “one app to rule them all” yet, it gets people to discuss how likely it could be, how good/bad it would be, can musk do it etc, rather than “Will Threads kill Twitter?”

It’s not a terrible move, but the better move would be to make it a place worth going to.

It’s been …I don’t know how many months since I put my account in non active mode and I realise that I’m so much happier and less anxious than back then.

So thanks for ruining twitter, Musk. You’ve improved my mental health.