weekend schmooze 005
I did such a great number of things last week and weekend—by my standards—that I'm only posting this on Monday! I read a few great articles (not many blog posts, sadly) and watched two wonderful movies.
📚 Reading
- Read mostly articles at breakfast and before going to bed, but returned to "História do Novo Nome", the second book in Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels series, on Thursday, and I'm now very into it. I look forward to knowing how the plot will develop and reading the next two volumes!
🎧 Listening
- Since I'm writing this on Monday, I can't see the data for my listening activity from last week. To be honest, I've been having mixed feelings about tracking every bit of media I consume, especially in a active way. When it comes to TV shows, films and (now) reading, I have pretty much everything automated; Trakt scrobbles everything I see in Stremio, and I've been using this plugin to automatically update my reading status in Hardcover based on what I'm reading in KOReader. So, with that being said, I think I'll keep stats.fm and Last.fm scrobbling what I listen to and just do an annual recap if I feel like it.
📺 Watching
- As I mentioned in this post, I had a wonderful experience watching "Evil Does Not Exist". I went back to the same cinema to rewatch "Perfect Days", which has been upgraded to one of my favorite movies. I will write more about it someday, but it's a beautiful movie about the simple pleasures of life and on having and being enough.
🚲 Wandrering
- Discovered 1,87 new kilometers the past week without even trying, which is nice. I really want to do this in a more planned manner, though. Maybe on Saturday mornings, when M goes to work and I have the morning all to myself? That would also be an extra push to clean the house during the week, since I hate cleaning during the weekend.
🔗 Linkipedia
- "De-Algorithming Myself" by Accidentally Old School and Manu's "On Spotify" made me (once again) think about my Spotify consumption. I love the convenience of it, but sometimes I think if I wouldn't be better off just ripping and buying/downloading CD's and supporting artists directly than contribute to Daniel Ek's fortune. Have you dealt with this issue before? Feel free to reach out to me!
- "FTSE 100 bosses make more money in 2025 by noon today than average worker in a year" by The Guardian. Well, this was infuriating.
- "Cycle journeys soar 26% in London since 2019"by Zag Daily. Who would've guessed that people cycle more when they feel safer to do so???
- "Every second, 10 cows, 47 pigs, and 2,400 chickens are slaughtered for meat" by Our World in Data. Pretty self-explanatory.
- "Don't let machines or the crowd decide your world" by Adam Singer. Again, another piece about algorithms. It's been an unusual anti-algorithm week, but I've been thinking about this issue for quite some time.
- "How to like everything more" by Sasha Chapin.