The Digest

There. A name that took enormous effort.

The sharp-eyed amongst you have noticed that posts are not arriving individually to your e-mail. Instead, they arrive in this newsletter as a digest. If you're a paid member, the posts appear in Slack as soon as they are published - and anyone can, of course, have them pop up in your RSS reader of choice. Just add RSS to the end of the URL. I recommend Reader by Readwise.

This week, I revisited my beautiful "Analog" by Ugmonk. If you like the idea but are nervous about the price, the company has produced a new, lower-cost, stainless steel version.

Analog
The joy of the system is its simplicity and adaptability. Analog is the “last mile” of my task management workflow. It supplements my digital system in two ways.
Writer, interrupted.Stuart Lennon

On Tuesday, I wrote about JD Vance - or Boss Hogg as I call him. I expected the standard walkback from the administration on the next day. Instead, the Orange One said, "Hold my (alcohol-free) beer..."

The Munich Revelation
Meanwhile, the Orange one himself had Romania by the collars behind the bikesheds. He wants those lovely Tate boys to be let off the hook immediately. After all, who hasn’t been charged with human slavery, rape, fraud and money laundering?
Writer, interrupted.Stuart Lennon

I'm glad to be on a break from social media - I would have found it difficult to restrain myself after President Trump's comments on Ukraine.

I have been writing for my jobby-job. I plan to up my content marketing there and would like some articles in the hopper. In a classic ripple effect example, my first draft wondered whether Trump's war on government and governance might be the death of anti-money laundering consultancy. I mean, are we still going to have crimes?

Shopping

Asus has announced that their next shipment of laptops to the US will be more expensive. Yay for tariffs.

Blog posts and newsletters are better with links, and having somewhere to collect and organise them all is one of those simple hacks that makes computing a tiny bit easier. Raindrop works everywhere. It's my favourite price, too. (Free)

I don't recommend it, but I've been shopping for tiles to rebuild external staircases at my home. I hasten to add that I shall be doing precisely zero tiling myself. A capable professional will be doing that.

Surfing

Meishi: a tiny productivity system. I love Arun's blog. Someone who thinks deeply about design. This is a cracking little system inspired by Analog.

Microsoft Says It Has Created a New State of Matter to Power Quantum Computers - The New York Times. This might be behind a paywall, but you can find the story elsewhere. Astonishing stuff.

I've taken out a trial subscription for the New York Times. For sure, it's dominated by US news, but then everywhere is at the moment. The apps are excellent, and the NYT's output is prodigious. There's some great long-form content. Bonus - I'm playing Wordle too.