An interesting set of predictions for 2021. If the world shifts its focus from solving the COVID crisis to solving the climate crisis, we might just have a chance as a species.

What can we do to help that happen?

Oh, marvellous. Well done.

A notice informs that due to Brexit, shipments to the United Kingdom are currently suspended while a solution is being sought.

Knackered after homeschooling. Updating all the iOS things to 14.4 because it’s brain dead work, but feels productive.

Low tide on a rainy afternoon is not the most photogenic time in the Quay.

Emerald Quay at low tide in the rain.

Scenes from homeschool:

👧 “What does ‘dour’ mean?” 👱🏻‍♂️ “If only there was some sort of book that listed words alphabetically alongside their meanings.”

A person wearing a white watch is flipping through the pages of a thick book while sitting at a wooden table with a glass of water nearby.

Plenty of people enjoying the waves down at the Beach today.

Surfers enjoying Shoreham Beach, with a view of Worthing Pier.

Be a fox, not a hedgehog

One interesting idea in Matthew Syed’s Sunday Times piece on how social media sound bite culture is destroying nuance in complex debates:

In a wise essay in 1953, the philosopher Isaiah Berlin contrasted two types of thinker: the hedgehog and the fox. The hedgehog has one big idea. It reduces everything to this one idea. Everything else is filtered out. The fox, conversely, has lots of ideas. It likes to see the broader context, how concepts fit together, and is anxious to bring more information to light.

Berlin’s point — although he made it subtly — is that it is psychologically easier to be a hedgehog, but to understand a complex world, it pays to be a fox.

We need more foxes.

Evening on the beach.

Evening light on Shoreham Beach, looking towards Rampion Wind Farm

Fascination read about Mar-a-Lago: the secret history of Trump’s Florida retreat

On the shore.

My daughter on Shoreham Beach looking towards Worthing.