Journal 2026-02-24 This is just depressing: The Film Students Who Can No Longer Sit Through Films - The Atlantic. Maybe I'm a little Victorian about this, but I think if you're on a film course, it should be mandatory to attend a percentage of in-person screenings, and at
Journal 2026-02-20 There's a publication in Milwaukee called the Shepherd Express. They have a section called "News of the Weird", from which I culled the following: Christopher Carroll, 36, was suspended from his job as a paramedic with the Baltimore County Fire Department and is facing 23 criminal
Journal 2026-02-16 Some incredible images from Mongolia. In ‘Altai,’ Photographer Claire Thomas Chronicles a Time-Honored Way of Life in MongoliaThomas celebrates the nomadic lifeway and ancient customs of livestock herding and eagle hunting in the Altai Mountains.ColossalKate Mothes An interesting Medium piece on simplifying productivity. I had already got here, but
Journal 2026-02-13 Cal Newport has just launched his Masterclass, and it prompted him to write this piece on the qualitative difference between professional productions and YouTube videos. He also talks about "micro streamers", which is a really interesting concept. This morning I am noodling with the idea of a stage
Journal On Notion... This week, I found myself back in Notion. This was partly an accident (I was looking for something that I thought might be in there) and partly an example of guided serendipity - I knew my systems didn’t feel quite right and so I was vaguely thinking about making
Journal On Ease "The French Art of Not Trying Too Hard" by Ollivier Pourriol is a serious book with a silly title that I picked up at Messy Nessy's Cabinet in Paris last week. Pourriol is a philosopher with some interesting observations to make, chief of which is that
Journal 2025-07-14 - A Holding Pattern As weeks go, this has been a tricky one. Our daughter is off inter-railing, which brings with it a fair amount of anxiety from both sides. I sprained my back last Monday morning, which has meant I have spent the past week in incrementally decreasing amounts of pain. And then
Journal 2025-06-25 These are not coming out thick and fast at the moment, and there was no newsletter this week. This is partly because, thanks to A-levels ending, we have entered a kind of summer holidays grey area here where routines go out of the window. It's also partly due
Journal 2025-06-20 This has been an incredibly sluggish week. I don't enjoy hot weather in the best of circumstances, and London at 30 degrees is far from the best of circumstances. We live in a very solidly built 1920s block and our flat is on the corner of the building,
Journal Wick is Pain I didn't even know this documentary existed until it was recommended to me yesterday. I watched it last night, and I'm now urging anyone who is interested in the behind-the-scenes, not just of how movies are made on the set but of how they come together
