Random musings

Widescreen CarPlay in a BMW 3 Series

The wireless Apple CarPlay in my 2017 BMW 3 Series works fine, but would only ever span …

A plausible alternative

Why pay for something that you can get for free?

Does 125 hours of mindfulness work?

In a word, yes. But the question needs some context.

Apple HomeKit invite fails with apparently no reason

What should be simple has this week turned out to be anything but.

Postfix error cannot open file: Permission denied

I’ve been moving email off of Google recently to the excellent service by Hey. But …

8 Tips For Better Video Meetings

I’ve spent most of the last decade working from home. From 2014 until early 2020 I was …

5 books, part 5: Into the Woods by John Yorke

“Good storytelling never gives you four, it gives you two plus two… Don’t …

5 books, part 4: Alchemy by Rory Sutherland

“Things are not what they are; they are what we think they are”

5 books, part 3: Loonshots by Safi Bahcall

Loonshot: a widely dismissed idea whose champions are often written off as crazy.

5 books, part 2: Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull

“Figuring out how to build a sustainable culture … wasn’t a singular …