Skegness, January 2026
For Christmas this year I sold a load of camera gear, and cashed in a bonus from work to buy myself a Leica Q3 43. I've always wanted a Q camera for a s long as I've been taking photos, so I am over the moon
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My Journal Sucks
I've tried to journal more times than I can count. Twenty-plus attempts, each one starting with optimism and ending in the same predictable collapse. A few days of writing about nothing, a few more days of beating myself up about it, then silence. The whole thing falls apart
The Best Mental Model
I was watching Demis Hassabis talk in The Thinking Game recently and something he said stuck with me. The scientific method is one of the greatest mental models you can adopt. Being able to say "here's everything I've considered, this is what I currently believe&
The iPhone Comparison Problem
I've been thinking about the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and cameras in general. Don't get me wrong, Samsung cameras are fine, I just don't think they're good enough for a £1,700 phone. I don't think they're good
The Questions I'll Never See
I've been noticing some traffic on my blog from LLM based search. Small little drips of visitors from ChatGPT, Perplexity, and similar search tools. Not huge amounts, but enough to make me curious about what's actually happening.
Someone out there is asking these LLMs questions, and
Locked Out Of Your Life
Nick Heer writing about a high-profile Apple account lockout:
Customers need a level of protection from any corporation with which they are required to have an ongoing relationship. This single high-profile incident should raise alarm bells within Apple about its presumably-automatic account security mechanisms and its support procedures.
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The Halo Fell Away
I've been an iOS user for years. The halo of products that kept me locked into the ecosystem has fallen away one by one. The iPad stopped being my computer ages ago, then the Apple Watch got replaced by a Garmin for running. What's left is
Filling In The Gaps
Casey Newton wrote about Australia's new social media ban for under-16s, touching on Jonathan Haidt's "The Anxious Generation":
The book has been criticized for its lack of empirical data on the central claim that social networks are largely responsible for the mental health crisis
Whose Taste Is It Anyway
Matt Birchler on what makes you interesting:
Whether it's Tomotometer scores or your online clan deciding something is good or the worst thing ever, I find these systems to make us all dumber and more angry.
I've been thinking about this alongside a recent Vergecast discussion
The Oppo Find X9 Pro: A Camera That Doesn't Get In The Way
I've written before about getting itchy feet with technology. That pull toward trying something new, usually an Android phone, before inevitably running back to iPhone a week later because of iMessage or iCloud or whatever excuse I tell myself. My flip phone experiment was the culmination of years