Pyrite

I was convinced an easy way to spot something unnatural, in a natural earth like setting was to simply look for straight lines and perfectly right angles …. until I came across Pyrite.

I will need to find a new way to convince myself that humans are alien.

Goodbye Evernote, Hello Obsidian …

Finally making the move of my “2nd brain” (notes) out of Evernote and into Obsidian … I think I will miss a few features of Evernote such as the rich editor, nice formatting of tables and the polished Desktop, Web and Mobile apps, but I am over the high expense and glad to be hosting/owning/having control over my own data.

Obsidian looks very promising at the moment, a couple of work colleagues swear by it and just by the quality and sheer number of great community plugins alone has made it worth switching. Time will tell 🙂 During this move I have also modified my note collection structure, migrating to a partial implementation of Johnny.Decimal where it makes sense. Below is a screenshot of my current folder structure. I hope I can maintain this … but also know these systems require time to evolve and adapt. read more

Travel: Roth, Walldorf, Heidelberg, Munich

Due to a last minute work trip to SAP in Walldorf, some odd flights to Munich afforded me some time on either end of the travel for a few personal events to enjoy. (I generally fly to Frankfurt as it’s much closer).

A few days before the trip I noticed a famous full distance triathlon was going on in Roth, Germany, so on my drive from Munich to Roth, I made a short stop to watch.

During the work week I spent time running in a small forest area next to the office, we had a great event in Heidelberg and hiked from the top down. I also spent some time lap swimming in Walldorf, and also did a trail run along philosophers walk before heading back to Munich. read more

Assembly theory and complexity theory

Like Lego and being given all the pieces of hog warts castle. What is the likelihood of you creating the actual castle. Minimal. With just two pieces you might be able to generate a shape. But not something particularly complex.

Does life create this?

This is a nice podcast which covers these topics and more.