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RBC Amphitheatre. 📍

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🎶 Bleachers know how to put on a great show

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Just Be Normal About S**t by JA Westenberg

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Be normal, and opt out of the deranged belief that the only way to take something seriously is to take it to the most extreme possible conclusion.

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Seems to me like a great approach.

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Andrew MacDougall: Lessons from D-Day, 82 years later:

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Looking at the past with rose-coloured glasses is usually a waste of time. We’re never going to be the country we were when it served up the “Greatest Generation.” But we do need a renewed sense of nationhood. We need to become a place that can once again pull together to do big things when called upon by the world. Different things, surely, but big just the same. What we shouldn’t be in a rush to do, especially in the face of Trumpian disorder, is to further weaken ourselves, whether by continuing our economic and military stagnation, or carving...

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@mathyousee congrats on the race! Especially given is was spur of the moment. That’s a fun post format too. Definitely worth the experiment

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🚴 Glad to get out for my first proper long ride of the season. The nasty headwind on the way up became a glorious tailwind coming back.

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Finished reading: In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick is the harrowing story of survival that inspired Moby Dick. Hard to imagine such an ordeal 📚

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@HemisphericViews this is going to be stressful!

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Fun to listen to Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco from start to finish for The Hemispheric Cavalcade Bingo Arcade June-boree!\n🎵

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Watched: Although I enjoyed For All Mankind Season 5, I agree with The NASA Vending Machine that the balance wasn’t quite right 🍿

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@darby3 yikes! Good luck. I just finished reading the one on the top and that’s an intimidating stack

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@rw yes, a great app! It is my main hub and visualization tool in my portfolio of fitness apps

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@mandaris good idea

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🇨🇦 Gander is an interesting experiment: a “Canada first” social network, built on the AT Protocol. I’m trying out the beta and it works well. As usual, though, the challenge is getting enough people on the network to make it compelling.

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@kaa such possibilities!

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@aa it was!

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@martinfeld looking forward to it!

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@numericcitizen I hope the weather cooperated. A nice bike ride is a glorious thing

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@canion ridiculous fun

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@jabel wishing you strength through these challenging times. “Trust the unfolding“ is great advice

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🏃‍♂️ My kind of weather

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Willibald Farm Distillery & Brewery. 📍

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Delicious pizza from Willibald

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@ericmwalk it is! Helped by the fact that I won

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Finished reading: Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson is an immersive story with great, imaginative details. Took a few chapters to get into and then was a page turner 📚

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Wedges ‘N Woods Golf Academy. 📍

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Mini golf on a lovely day ⛳️

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@manton I really liked this one too. So imaginative

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@gobino must feel so nice!

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@gobino thanks! Once we got going it was fine, though could use a nap now that it is later in the day

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🚴 Glad to finally get out for my first outdoor ride of the season, though the 5am wake up was rough

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Friday before a long weekend and a wave of meetings have been getting cancelled throughout the day. Now there’s just one left at 3pm, taunting me.

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@cliff538 legitimately saved me a couple of hours of web searches. Also justified keeping a list of all the books I’ve read!

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@ericmwalk looks idyllic

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@robertbreen yeah, I’m pretty sure I’ll get to plain text eventually. I’m iOS only though, so don’t seem to have any great solutions yet

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@robertbreen nice! I’m glad that worked out for you too. Enjoy the new finds

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The collaborative office puzzle is complete

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@manton nice. Thanks!

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🔗 Jonathan English makes a useful distinction in Engineering Problems and Phone Call Problems

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There is a distinction that the infrastructure planning world doesn’t tend to make explicitly, but that explains an enormous amount of why large projects cost what they cost. It’s the distinction between engineering problems and what I like to call “phone call problems.”

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Phone call problems lead to increased costs, schedule delay, and significant uncertainty.

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@mathyousee cool, I’d like to read about that. I’ve been avoiding Obsidian for a while, but think it is inevitable that all of this will just end up as text files in folders eventually

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@birming nice. I’m enjoying it.

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🔗 The morning shakeout by Mario Fraioli

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As a coach, I use various tools and data to track trends over time and initiate deeper discussions with my athletes about where we’re heading and why. But there’s a big difference between a tool and a crutch. Data should be used to inform your decisions but outsourcing your decisions to a data point is a fool’s errand. I worry that in our rush to optimize every aspect of our training and racing that we’re losing touch with the parts of this pursuit that can’t be measured and why most of us started running in the first place.

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Switching my journal from Day One to Everlog 📝: matt.routleynet.org

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Although I don’t have much use for AI, and certainly have many concerns, I’m also quite curious about it. As an experiment, I pointed Claude at my list of blog entries on books I’ve read, asked it to identify any series from the list, and find the next book in that series. I sometimes lose track of which...

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Using Claude to help finish book series 📚🤖: matt.routleynet.org

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I started reading: Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson. I’ve read that if I can get through the first couple of hundred pages, this is a great series. I’m up for the challenge! 📚

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I started reading: Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson. I’ve read that if I can get through the first couple of hundred pages, this is a great series. I’m up for the challenge! 📚

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Listening to The Call by Broken Social Scene from Remember The Humans. Great to have a new album from this collective 🎵

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Listening to The Call by Broken Social Scene from Remember The Humans. Great to have a new album from this collective 🎵

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Finished reading: The Republic of Alberta by Tyler Dawson make a compelling case that the rest of Canada needs to be paying attention to Alberta separatism. I remember how traumatic this was with Quebec and am not keen to do this again 📚

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@manton yikes, that’s terrible

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@andrewdoran.uk wow, that’s epic! Congrats

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@gregmorris great update! Well done with the Activity tab

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