2020
Oh, dear. Here’s a piece advising SEOs to use fact check markup for marketing purposes. This is why we can’t have nice things.
Or accurate things.
April in 32 seconds and 13 years
So. That was April. It lasted just over 13 years, I only drove the car three times, and those were the only times I left Shoreham Beach.
This was - and is - an historic period but for most of us - the lucky ones - our lives have been incredibly mundane despite that. Even with the anxiety and the homeschooling and the work and financial stress, the time with my wife and children has been a blessing.
The danger of valuing confidence over humility
This is a really key insight in Ed Young’s superb piece The Pandemic Doesn’t Have to Be This Confusing:
A lack of expertise becomes problematic when it’s combined with extreme overconfidence, and with society’s tendency to reward projected confidence over humility. “When scientists offer caveats instead of absolutes,” Gralinski says, “that uncertainty we’re trained to acknowledge makes it sound like no one knows what’s going on, and creates opportunities for people who present as skeptics.”
Lockdown reasons to be cheerful…
Some folks here on Shoreham Beach are being a lot more creative with lockdown than I’m managing…
Me pre-lockdown: Do we even need a printer at home any more?
Me in lockdown, and homeschooling: We need a better printer!
