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  • Prism

    Today I trialed out OpenAI’s new scientific writing tool, Prism. I wasn’t super impressed with where it is NOW, but I love where it could potentially go. Writing academic and scientific papers is hard, and always will be. But one of the things that is unnecessarily difficult is incorporating LaTeX, which is essentially the way…

  • Exponential

    I am part of a fantasy football league with one other guy, an old colleague from Kiwibank. After a good start, I have largely forgotten about it. This all changed in Round 20, when I was automatically added to the FPL cup, a knockout competition. Each week you would be assigned a random opponent; score…

  • Road trip

    It was a long drive back from Crested Butte, including our break, about 5 hours from door to door on windy roads. Is it nice to have a short commute? Of course. Is it nice to spend 5 hours to chat about everything and nothing? Absolutely.

  • Rough Start

    Today was the annual (?) Alley Oop competition in Crested Butte, which is a cross country skiing race through the town. We were on baby sitting duty, so we went to check it out. For those who don’t know, Cross Country Skiing, also know as Nordic Skiing, is done on flat-ish terrain, with a free…

  • Turns

    Ky and I spent the day, just the two of us, skiing at Crested Butte. Our good friends took care of O for the day; we will return the favour tomorrow. It has been almost two years exactly since we were here, our last visit was for Ky’s Birthday. There was a lot more snow…

  • Crested Butte

    Last night the three of us drove up to Crested Butte, a gorgeous mountain town that Ky and I love. We are here for the weekend to ski and spend time with friends. The best thing about Crested Butte is also the worst thing; it’s 4.5 hours from Denver. We drove up last night, had…

Why I started this blog

I don’t really use Social Media anymore; I’m too young for Facebook, too old for SnapChat, too normie for Discord and too boring for Instagram. While this buys me back time and peace of mind, it means that it can sometimes be difficult to share my life with my friends and family outside of phone calls and in-person meetups. As I live overseas, this can be a difficulty.

With this in mind, and inspired my friend Dan Cullum (check out his fantastic site HERE), I have started a daily blog. Not only will I be able to share my ideas, news, and stories to friends and family, but it serves as a time capsule as I move through life. In the future, I look forward to seeing how my views, opinions, and ideas change over time. At the very least, it is an exercise in discipline, and may be of interest to my descendants at some time in the future.

While I imagine most followers of this blog will be friends and family, all are welcome to subscribe. Feel free to email at harry@harrywetherall.com, I reply to every message, and would love to hear from you.

Harry Wetherall

Founder, Husband, Writer, Friend

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