Author: Harry

I was bitten by a wasp today. It’s not something I think I have ever experienced, and unsurprisingly, not one I will be running back to repeat. Pain is a hard thing to describe. This particular sting felt like a hot wire poked onto the back of my hand, which is unusual in two ways:…

I have been a fan of language learning recently, and today I think I added a new one; prompt engineering. Not fluent, by any means, but at least I have started. Prompt engineering is a lot of things, but at its most basic, it’s talking to LLMs in a way that maximises efficiency. Think of…

Perplexity is one of my favourite Large Language, but today, I thought they did something really cool. Many of you may have heard about DeepSeek, a Chinese model that isn’t only incredibly powerful, but startlingly cheap. It only had one downside; it was clearly a propaganda tool. For weeks, there were endless memes in the…

Oscar Jenkins, my former school buddy, has been found alive in Russia. For those who don’t remember, Oscar has enlisted to fight for the Ukrainian Foreign Legion, and had been captured two months ago by Russian forces. I wrote about it HERE. My fear was that once captured, the chance of Mr Jenkins staying alive…

I used to practice Inbox Zero, or at least my version of it. To do this, I more or less opened every email, with the occasional “mark all as read” cheat. It worked, until it didn’t. The rate I signed up for things exceeded the rate I unsubscribed, and over the years, it has grown…

I played my first game of golf today. No wonder it’s popular. As I sit here writing this, a bit sunburnt and a little worse for wear, I look back on today as a good one. What surprised me most was that the barrier to entry was far lower than I thought. Having barely done…

I quite like the academic Scott Galloway, better know as Professor G. A marketing professor at NYU, he has gained far more reach with his commentary on the world at large, particularly its issues. I subscribe to his weekly newsletter (you can do so HERE), which is always worth reading. I recently heard him on…

Don’t you hate it when you’re trying to focus on some work, and the merest of distractions shanghaies your attention (‘just for a second’, you tell yourself)? I know it’s slurped an impossibly large amount of my time over the past three and a bit decades. Discipline works, but it’s hard, and fallible, so we…

There are many Trump quotes, some of which I like. One I am not so keen on is “drill, baby, drill”, referring to his love of expanding oil exploration in the US, particularly in protected areas. While I am a big fan of fracking, I’m not fully onboard with this. Regardless of my own views,…

The final of the Carabao Cup, the little brother of the FA Cup, is due to be held on March 16th at Wembley. It’s a date pencilled into my calendar, for as a long suffering Newcastle United fan, they have somehow, against the odds, made it to the big dance. Out of curiosity, I went…