Friend asked if Constantine was my favourite movie… I mean Neo and the librarian in one movie?? Yes please! but… Not my favorite though… that would be between Notting Hill, The Mummy, and The Matrix. None of them are good movies — in the way that Perfect Days and sooo many others are — but they are my movies.

Godzilla minus one had no business being that good!

This bookclub is the most fun thing I’ve done in a decade… this includes starting, expanding, and leaving a startup ;) The last fun thing was post-PhD rapid exploration of applying AI for bio, which laid the foundation for where I am now. The book club feels like a philosophical anchoring to understand complexities of the world and, as I …

Finished chapter 1 of Shadows at Noon. A very dense 83 pages. I can see why Joya Chatterji won the Wolfson History Prize. Reading with a pencil, not a single page is unannotated!

I’m on the last book of the Long Earth Series, The Long Cosmos and reading it makes me sad and wistful. Perhaps it’s knowing that Terry Pratchett didn’t live to see it published, perhaps it’s the little hints and hooks of Discworld. Whatever it is, there are parts of the book where I laugh out loud, like when Sancho calls himself “The …