Finished reading: The Year of Less by Cait Flanders π
Finished reading: The Year of Less by Cait Flanders π
Finished reading: The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt π
Finished reading: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro π
Finished reading: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion π
Finished reading: The Diary of a CEO by Steven Bartlett π
Finished reading: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini π
In 2022 I decided to set a goal of reading 50 books a year for 3 consecutive years. I’m likely to complete my goal - I read 50 in 2022, 50 in 2023 and this year I’ve read 21 books so far. However I’ve read a lot of non-fiction and I’m beginning to feel like a receptacle for other peoples ideas, theories and advice.
Next year I’m changing my approach. Instead of number of books I’m going to focus on quality. War and Peace, The Brothers Karamazov and East of Eden are front of the queue. I intend to create a list of specific books I want to read during the year and the only non-fiction on the list will be biographies of people who interest me.
Quite shocked to discover I had 155 third party apps installed on my iPhone. Iβve now reduced it to 140 and I intend to reduce it further. Iβm curious how that compares with othersβ¦
White Rock Beach
Turtle watching in Kefalonia while we were on holiday last week
Finished reading: The Road by Cormac McCarthy π
Watching the football last night in a lovely cafe bar in Lixouri
Finished reading: Bram, A Spy Story by Nicholas Bate π
Not a bad location for the next 7 days
Great Fatherβs Day gift πΏ
When the alarm went off at 6.20 this morning I realised how easily I can talk myself out of going to the gym, once I remember my son isn’t there to go with me
I think it might be time for another digital detox
Finished reading: How to Live by Derek Sivers π
Finished reading: The Tao of Seneca Vol. 1 by Seneca π
Today I finally started my succession plan. I’ve been procrastinating on it for over a year but it feels good to have begun. Phase one was to compile a summary of assets and liabilities. I could so easily have toiled over what apps and file formats to use but the solution was easy in the end. I have a note in Bear containing the summary, which I’ve exported to PDF and will share with my wife and children in Apple Notes. I have a recurring task in Things (with a link to the Bear note) prompting me to review and update it every 6 months. I will then export to PDF and save the updated version back to Apple Notes. Getting old is fun!
For a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone > Henry David Thoreau
Thereβs a Northern Irish blues singer mentioned in Louise Kennedy’s novel Trespasses, Ottilie Patterson. I decided to check out some of her music on Spotify and itβs really good.
Today I was reminded that progress > perfection
Today I was reminded just how much music can move me. On my son’s recommendation I listened to Jeff Buckley’s recording of the Smiths’ song “I Know It’s Over” Wow!
Finished reading: Slow Productivity by Cal Newport π