One Man's Notes

That’s it. Time to quit Outlook and call it a day.

I’m just not looking forward to a hot train ride home…

Every year, while I’m supervising journalism MA students’ final projects, I miss being a commissioning editor. I love the feeling of working with talented journalists to make their copy better.

Recreation is valuable in proportion to the intensity of its experiences, and to the degree to which it differs from and contrasts with workaday life.

— A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold 📚

Perception, in short, cannot be purchased with either learned degrees or dollars; it grows at home as well as abroad, and he who has a little may use it to as good advantage as he who has much. As a search for perception, the recreational stampede is footless and unnecessary.

— A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold 📚

Broadly speaking, a piece of scenery snapped by a dozen tourist cameras daily is not physically impaired thereby, nor does any other resource suffer when the rate increases to a hundred. The camera industry is one of the few innocuous parasites on wild nature.

— A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold 📚

David Allen Green’s examination of Boris Johnson’s actions is excoriating:

“All these advantages meant that the process was heavily biased: but heavily biased in Johnson’s favour.}

“And somehow, Johnson still lost.”