Addition to this: I found the Fitbit Charge 5 on sale. It seems to be the state of the art. A little too watch-like for my taste, but I’m hoping there are settings I can fiddle with to make it a little less visually hot on the wrist – I don’t want to look like I wear two watches. It’s pretty water-resistant, apparently, and I’m not too worried about it getting banged up outside – the reason I don’t wear my old Apple Watch 2 while working in the garden, and why I bought a beater watch for that purpose.
Yesterday turned out to be somewhat stressful. Hoping today will be easier. Phone conference with a production company later.
ON DECK: the above, and hopefully getting some writing down in between things.
INBOX: 75
READING: ALL THE NERDS ARE DEAD, an essay I came across at the weekend. It ties a little into some recent thinking of my own, and also to the current state of popular culture – it was also noted elsewhere that there are four albums in the top ten by the same person and seven books in the top twenty by the same person at the moment. The author of the linked piece also observes:
It was at the dawn of the algorithm era that all my Dalston friends started playing Taylor Swift at their parties. A few years ago, I was dragged to some fashion-world event in the Bowery in New York: the room was full of cool young people there to be seen, and they were listening to a playlist of Top-40 pop music curated for them by a proprietary mathematical equation.
This is an interesting moment.
LAST WATCHED: I have a huge box set of Ingmar Bergman films that I started a few years ago but didn’t finish. I’m going to start again.