January 2022
Posted on January 1, 2022
Updates
Updated: January 1, 2022
- Happy New Year, I don’t mind Christmas, but the real holiday is December 26.
- I’ve been looking at the sky a lot – and thinking about it.
- I made a brief departure from TickTick videos and instead made a couple YouTube videos about the books I read. They’ve been fun to make but they are some of my lowest view count videos.
- After watching California Typewriter, I have been interested in them. My wife got me a typewriter for Christmas!
- My wife and I signed up for a 10K in March – hoping to stay active through the winter.
Books I’m currently reading
I’m trying out reading two books at a time for the first time. With books like Moby Dick, even though it’s fiction, it’s a heavier read. I can read a certain amount each day before I’m done. I realized I was able to switch over to something different and lighter, like Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Astrophysics for People in a Hurry and it worked out pretty good.
Book I finished reading last month
Albums I’ve been listening to
Besides Christmas music, I was mostly listening to The Killers’ Pressure Machine, which is by far the best album of 2021, in my opinion. I also have been listening to Bruce Springsteen’s 1988 Stockholm concert. I’ve been somewhat fascinated by this period of his career – he’d made it big, he was getting divorced, falling in love with Patti, this was the last tour with the E-Street Band for 10+ years.
Quote I’ve been thinking about
“worrying is not preparation”
– Austin Kleon who said he got it from Jeffrey Tambor
Podcast episodes I thought were good
YouTube videos I thought were worth watching
I never knew that Keith Richards used this type of tuning, which he mentions he got from Ry Cooder.
This was a well made video which is mostly about how you can actually read more. I especially liked the part with the speed reader talks about why he prefers to read slow. A few weeks ago, I had written some of my own thoughts on how to read more.
This was a brief history of caffeine and the coffee break.