Finished reading: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir ๐Another one of those novels that is full of “and then this happened and then that happened.” I keep reading them through to the end but I don’t love them.
Finished reading: Because Our Fathers Lied by Craig McNamara ๐A book with personal resonance for me, as it has to do with growing up in Washington, DC with a parent in the federal government who is not always truthful.
Misty morning on the lake.
Currently reading: Frankie’s Place by Jim Sterba ๐
Podcast | Two Years Later, We Still Donโt Understand Long Covid. Why? - The New York Times
Currently reading: Because Our Fathers Lied by Craig McNamara ๐
Currently reading: Building a StoryBrand by Donald Miller ๐
Iโm going on vacation today! Woo hoo! Only two days, but still.
Sort of finished reading: Heroes of the Frontier by Dave Eggers ๐ended up skimming through to the end. No likeable characters and I couldnโt see the value in further study of their flaws.
Currently reading: Heroes of the Frontier by Dave Eggers ๐
Happily watching the WWDC live stream and laughing at the stream in the Six Colors members’ Slack.
How long covid could change the way we think about disability
Currently reading: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir ๐
Finished reading: The Book of Form and Emptiness: A Novel by Ruth Ozeki ๐not as good as I had hoped. Given its weighty topics, I wanted a deeper treatment.
Currently reading: Learning from the Germans by Susan Neiman ๐
Currently reading: Chants Democratic by Sean Wilentz ๐
Currently reading: Himalayan Dhaba by Craig Joseph Danner ๐
Currently reading: Technical Blogging by Antonio Cangiano ๐
Finished reading: The Healing Power of Story by Annie Brewster ๐A good idea, about how storytelling can help patients with serious illnesses, but somehow the book comes across as juvenile and self-serving.
Finished reading: Fixing Your Scrum by Ryan Ripley ๐an excellent book for anyone working on an Agile team.
Pizza: cold proof the dough in container same shape as pizza
I’ve started making pizza again, using a Roman Pizza sourdough crust recipe that makes a half-sheet, perfect for 2 people for 2 dinners.
And this idea is brilliant:
uses another favorite technique of mine, which is to cold proof pizza and flatbread doughs in containers that are similar in shape and dimensions to the final bread (I use 13x9-inch cake pans in this case). That way the dough expands toward its final dimensions as it relaxes in the fridge, which means you donโt have to overwork it and press out all the lovely alveoli it contains.
From “A thrice-weekly, IACP-nominated breaducational newsletter from Andrew Janjigian <linktr.ee/wordloaf>”
Vaccines may not prevent many symptoms of long covid, study suggests
Currently reading: The Healing Power of Story by Annie Brewster ๐
Me and my buddy, Dave, on top of Mount Monadnock in New Hampshire, sometime last Fall
mountain #mbmay