Didn’t realise there was a Five Guys with a glorious view of Tower Bridge. Great place to see outside with a burger.
There’s also Gaucho Tower Bridge next door, which is a bit more upmarket. No idea what their food is like. But the outdoor seats would give you fantastic views on a romantic dinner date.
Good morning all. It’s currently 14°C in London 🌤️
🚆 Trains reads:
🧍♂️Me update:
🔗 15 rules for blogging - Matt Webb
Some of the best and most realistic rules for blogging I’ve seen. Though I realise I’m breaking rule 12 with this post:
Don’t use a post just to link to something elsewhere. If there’s a point to make, start with that.
A common British experience is that for every single place you know there’s an identically named place in the US.
Today: St Albans, England and St Albans, Vermont.
Bonus US place I discovered today that doesn’t have a British equivalent but is wonderfully boringly named: Robert in Louisiana.
Adequately put together and fairly fun, but this was merely okay.
The whole Wall Street vs. the working person story felt forced at times and it didn’t lead to a satisfying conclusion in the final act.
The ‘dumb’ bad guys were comically dumb. And the ‘scary’ bad guys weren’t scary enough.
However, the reviews for this are fairly strong and my girlfriend enjoyed it, so I’m in a minority.
And this was weirdly watchable and fun. And I always enjoy seeing Paul Dano on screen. He always brings the human to his roles, and this one is no different. 58%
These AI newsletters are essentially identical. I don’t know why I’ve remained subscribed to all three for so long. Their content is all exactly the same.
I’ve reached the point in my digital life where I’ve used enough ‘saving’ tools that I simply don’t know where to look for things anymore. Depending on the year I saved it it could be at any of these:
🔗 Why I write and why I won’t – Remy Sharp°
He says that one of the benefits of sharing your thoughts or solutions on your blog is that they’re very easy to find again thanks to search engines.
I’d never really thought about that. Search is difficult. I’m unsatisfied with the search function of nearly all software I use.
And whilst Google isn’t what it once was it will probably still be better at finding something I’ve written on the web than Obsidian will be at finding something I’ve written in my notes.
Simon Collison has written about having a longer form blog and also a short one.
A primary motivation for creating my Stream was the paralysing sense that a blog post needed appropriate length and weight.
I understand that feeling well. I am always too aware of my audience when I write. To the point that anything too short or off topic feels like I’m wasting their time. As a result I have created way too many blogs down the years (and I still maintain too many).
So I’ve found my recent discovery of Micro.blog very freeing. I don’t care too much on here. I just share what’s on my mind. No matter how short, long or off topic.
New word learnt: standfirst. “An introductory paragraph in an article, printed in larger or bolder type or in capitals, that summarises the article”.
I had never heard of this word before. I always just called it the ‘byline’.
(learnt via this article)
