Category: observation
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Thoughts on the Book Blindness
Reading Time: 2 minutesI read Blindness last month and finished it yesterday and although it won a Nobel Prize I was not a fan of the book. I haven’t had time to digest it properly yet but I think that it was at a disadvantage. It explores what it would be like to live through…
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Why I chose to Deactivate Threads
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis morning I woke up to people insulting me for not being an Apple fan boy on Threads. Before that I was trolled for several other reasons and the consequence is that I have now deactivated my Threads account. For me the web is a place where, if you agree, or if…
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Epix Gen 2 Continued
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday I went for a run and the Garmin Epix Gen 2 labelled it as unproductive. Yesterday I went for a 5k run and I wore the Garmin Instinct Solar with the HRM-Pro Plus and it was just marked as a wrong. I was curious to see if I would get more…
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Toying With the Idea of Fairphone
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere is an inalienable truth, that within two or three years all of my mobile phones require a battery swap. With an iPhone this costs 67.50 CHF for the SE but only 28 CHF for a fairphone. In light of this it makes sense to recycle the iPhone SE and replace it…
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Anti-Social Media and the Never Ending Argument
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf I was new to anti-social media I would see it as a complete and utter waste of time. On one side you have influencers and like culture where value is measured in likes and followers rather than meaningful conversations. On the other side you have anonymous accounts that look for arguments…
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Self Driving Cars and Mobility
Reading Time: 3 minutesToday I filled in a survey with the premise "Impact of automated vehicles on walking" and it gave me an opportunity to share my views on this topic. The short version is that I’d rather see more bike sharing opportunities, and more safe routes for pedestrians between villages and towns, than self…
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Running from Eysins to Prangins Via Nyon
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday my watch said that I should run for 36 minutes or so so I obeyed. As a result of running for 36 minutes I got to Prangins and made it part of the way back before stopping and walking. In the process I ran for 5.8 kilometres rather than 5 and…
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The Daily Workout
Reading Time: 2 minutesvery single day I walk, run, or cycle. It doesn’t matter whether it’s rainy, sunny, windy, snowy or other. I do this out of habit. I know of quite a few routes that I can walk, run or cycle so there are variants. Some are long, some are short. If it’s going…
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Running Calmly
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWeeks ago I started running again, but this time my goal is to run calmly. By this I mean that I ran until I felt pain, and stopped, over and over, until finally I ran with Wake Up and Ran and covered 5km. Since then I have been running 5k consistently.…