📺 Finished watching Dark on Netflix, a German drama of epic scope and complexity. It started out as a spooky murder mystery but soon took a dramatic turn into something else entirely. Thoroughly recommended.

🎵 Oooh! I didn’t know that Royal Mail Sunday deliveries were a thing. Looking forward to savouring this.

📻 radio.garden is superb. What a great way to explore the world’s radio stations.

📚 It sounds like a utopia at Auto Trader.

Here we go with album #120. Back to 1995.

Tonight we’re celebrating ten years of Album Club. The incredibly talented Natasha Collins at Nevie-Pie Cakes created a series of cookies for us, showcasing some of the albums we’ve listened to over the past 119 meet-ups. Amazing! 🙌

Modern times. Just had an email from the bank to tell me the savings interest rate is changing from 0.15% to 0.09% per annum.

🎵 Very excited to hear Snowpoet’s new album Wait For Me which is out today. Their last album played a significant part in me deciding to buy a turntable, so I could listen more closely to their beautiful music.

I really like this Scrum vs Kanban Cheat Sheet from Development That Pays.

🕹 City Guesser is quite compelling, given that I’ve barely left the house in the past year.

Giving rice cakes another go as a healthy snack. Tasty, but they always seem to result in my immediate surroundings being covered in Pompeii-levels of debris.

Completed a year’s cycle of home lockdown haircuts yesterday. The clippers have been a great investment.

My wife: “I think I’ve made it too short at the back.”

Me: “Don’t worry, nobody ever sees the back.”

📚 The word ‘microteam’ is dropped into chapter 3 of Team Topologies like it is a common, well-understood term. Given the size and shape of our IT department I am intrigued by the concept but couldn’t find much out there that talks to this.

🎥 Just watched Lion (2016) for the second time. It had me in pieces all over again. The closing credits say that 80,000 children go missing in India each year. According to the BBC it is one every eight minutes.

Donated to the Tyr Abad Outdoor Education Centre charity in Wales. My secondary school jointly owned the centre and we used to go at least once a year. Even the punishments from the teachers, usually for talking after hours, gave us funny, happy memories. COVID-19 means no trips.

🎵 New vinyl arrived earlier in the week, first chance I’ve had to play it.

Ooooh, I ❤️ Readwise’s new highlight sharing tool. Very pretty.

A law of online meetups and webinars: By the time you are 25% through the session, someone will have sent an email to all participants asking if the session will be recorded.

📺 Just watched episode one of Can’t Get You Out Of My Head on iPlayer, an eight hour documentary. Very sad to learn through the opening quote that David Graeber passed away last year, I had no idea. His excellent book on Debt was one of the first ebooks I read.