Had to switch to Brave for work browser, since Opera appears to be using a new window UI setup which doesn’t work with my snapping windows app.
Back to work after DC vacation. Fresh brain does not want to deal with pre-vacation crap.
Co-Working Spacing on Dying Malls
From fastcompany.com:
Putting offices inside shopping centers leverages conventional wisdom that workers want to be near amenities like coffee, food, or a quick trip to the gym. As commercial renters are increasingly clamoring for built up amenities, malls have become an attractive option.
I enjoy these stories of creative destruction. Within reason, markets are efficient - not fair. Also, the idea of doing remote work from a place close to home but not home keeps getting more attractive every year for me.
Another delicious Blue Bottle Macchiato. It was too cold for my father in law, but perfect temp for me.
Tried a Dunkin cappuccino this morning and it was not… terrible. It should actually worry Starbucks a bit — because if it can be consistently done the same not terrible way, it may beat Starbucks’s sometimes good for the price.
Watched Star Wars Episode IX Teaser. Excited. Still undecided if I’ll watch any of the trailers — my rule is teasers only, and it has served me well.
Tired after a long walking day, but I so enjoy Washington DC.
This was a damn good macchiato.
SJO → ATL → DCA.
There’s no one thing
DHH at signalvnoise.com:
As long as you’re stuck on a quest for that one super-power practice or North Star principle, you’re not going to make space in your brain for the fact that no individual secret is going to make the difference. Only compound wisdom will.
Saved to my quotes scrapbook.
Worked from home and this hipster borrowed my glasses. Of course he rocks them much more than me.
🍿 How to Talk to Girls at Parties is clearly from the Neil Gaiman universe, but at times it doesn’t click. The love letter to punk rock in the 80s did work for me though.
Another not quite Aeropress coffee thingy, the Twist Press.
Moving my microblog to r.mateu.me, which is hosted on blot.im. I’ve been a micro.blog supporter since the kickstart campaign, and think the product is on a great path. However, as a blog service, the monthly price is a bit beyond what I want to pay — because I already have a blog service I’m comfortable with.
So I’ll keep a close eye on the developments, and will still hang around the micro.blog apps. But for the rest of the year I’m taking things a different direction.
[The Heart of a Swimmer vs. the Heart of a Runner](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/well/move/heart-health-swimming-running-exercise.html "The Heart of a Swimmer vs. the Heart of a Runner - The New York Times")
Thursday, April 4, 2019
From nytimes.com: In theory, those differences should allow blood to move from and back to the runners’ hearts more rapidly than would happen inside the swimmers’. Main takeaway is that you should always mix it up.
Leaning to not upgrading my AirPods yet. I use them a lot, but for short times, so the terrible battery life is not something I suffer that much — not counting calls, where I’ve just stopped using them.
Happily surprised by LEGO Movie 2. Entertaining but also good easily-digested moral learning in the end.
Netflix’s Love, Death & Robots reminded me so much of The Animatrix in the best posible way.
Aeropress short with a touch of milk foam.
Recommending a podcast between different player apps is an unnecessary frustrating experience nowadays.
Friday morning swim. 1300mts today, halfway there.
American Airlines suspends service to Venezuela. This worries me terribly. There’s still Copa, but the isolation goes from philosophical to real.
Broke 1000mts in swim. That’s the minimal viable training distance for me to consider time in a pool training.
Again worried for family and friends after another major blackout in Venezuela since yesterday.