This week I have learned:
- that I’m getting very tired of year “wraps” that are just spurting out random data analysis. Spotify thought I was 73. LinkedIn proved how dull the place is. However I did find out that the 5th most popular audiobook among the WB40 Spotify listenership is Jilly Cooper’s Riders. I think this probably is a reflection of low sample size more than anything else. Probably.
- how to hack a Poem/1. After a couple of years of watching Matt Webb’s journey to produce a consumer product go from idea to Kickstarter Campaign to supply chain nightmares to a product in a box in my home, within 24 hours I’d hacked the thing to do something different. This could not have happened before the advent of Claude.
- that the book is nearly done. I should get final proofs at the weekend and pre-sales should go live on Monday, just in time for Christmas (if you don’t mind giving someone a gift certificate). It’s a thing of which I’m hugely proud. It’s also a hefty tome – we reckon its going to weigh in at about 1.5kg.
- that the book is great to play with in groups. I got the first chance to do this this week with John Willshire and Inés Alvarez-Gortari, and it was a joyful experience.
- I at last got to involve my Japanese Lucky Fox in the book production process.
The week in media:
Watched
The latest instalment of the Lights Out film trilogy.
Listened
I do worry that I’m never going to be able to escape the orbit of Albertine Sarges’ two albums. Got the vinyl version of The Sticky Fingers through this week.
Read
Started The Secret Barrister’s A Cut Throat Trial.
Next week:
Christmas, innit?
The week in photos:
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