Ky and I are trying to have a No Spend September, which is really just a hard curtail on as much discretionary spending as possible. This is things like Amazon, coffees or meals out, events. It’s certainly not dumpster diving. It hasn’t been too hard so far, but conversely, we haven’t seen the benefits of…

We often hear about the concept of going from 0 to 1, which comes from Peter Thiel’s excellent book of the same name. It’s all about creating something new. However much I enjoy that kind of work, what feel more common, and probably more useful, is going from 1 to 1.1, or having a marginal…

I recently went past the the library, and picked up two books. One was on Deep Learning (the machine version), the other was on cooking. I’ll focus on the second. I never really watched any of Anthony Bourdain’s many shows, but I did read his best seller, Kitchen Confidential. Now, I have his second best…

Our good friends’ daughter just had her first birthday. It was fun. I have been to first birthdays before, but as a non-parent, they’re often very loud and not much fun. Usually they don’t have a crate of beers you can delete either. As a parent, today was a blast. Fun in the park, with…

99% of people only pay attention to track and field during the Olympics, and I’m one of them. Today, however, I make an exception. I sat next to a rather odd person at dinner a little while ago, and he told me about this running phenomenon out of Australia called Gout Gout, who may very…

I had a small kitchen fire today. While searing some prawns, the oil in the pan caught alight and before you know it, I had a mini flamethrower in my hand. Crazy! Fortunately, I knew what to do, and most importantly, not WHAT to do. For those unsure, whatever you do, don’t use water to…