If you are reading this I survived open heart surgery to remove a Myxoma from my left atrium. Benign tumours can come for you too.
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How Borderline High Cholesterol Saved My Life
I have returned to work after an unplanned excursion into the Australian health care system, including open-heart surgery.
Urban enshittification
When there's an ad-wrapper on the bus you ride, so you can’t clearly see outside, that’s enshittification.When someone leaves a shared e-bike on the footpath you hike, that’s enshittification.When a billboard appears right where you walked freely for years, that’s enshittification.
Writing vs Editing, Abundance vs Scarcity, Creation vs Curation
Writing and editing are, ideally, two stages in a complete creative process, yet we often prioritise the act of creation over the art of curation. The process of writing is mostly additive, with authors, starting with a blank page, spending the majority of their time on adding content rather than subtracting. This imbalance leads to verbose texts that obscure the core message, wasting the reader’s time.
Publications
Pointers
Your Regular Reminder
Car ramming in Normandy, France
AVs
Waymo involved in fatal crash, but probably not the cause
EVs
Walking
Transit
Social Media
Mastodon: Transport Starter Kit 1, Starter Kit 2
Press
Sydney University transport professor David Levinson warned against people getting excited that the plans would result in a high-speed train line being constructed.
“They still have to come up with the money to build the thing. Someone has to fund $90 billion,” he said. “Until they show the money it’s not real.”
