This year I decided to get into comics and manga. I read 157 volumes and found 17 great works.

This year I quit drinking entirely. also caffeine.

Work

  • Masks paper
  • NLP hackathon
  • COVID rant
  • Thinking hard about impact factors
  • My SPEAR and ESPR courses
  • Private doc, COVID and longtermism
  • Got Emergent Ventures funding
  • Got Off Road funded
  • My emobots research proposal


Breakthroughs


Papers


Books

  • *The Aubrey-Maturin Novels* by Patrick O’Brian. Especially #1, #6, #7, #10, #15, #17.
  • Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh
  • The Count of Monte Cristo by Robin Buss

  • Perhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer

  • Shigurui by Yamaguchi Takayuki
  • Ooku: The Inner Chambers by Yoshinaga Fumi
  • Cromartie High School by Nonaka Eiji
  • Through the Habitrails by Jeff Nicholson
  • Gangland by Brian Azzarello et al
  • The Blot by Tom Neely
  • Can’t We Talk about Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast
  • Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis

  • Berlin by Jason Lutes

  • The Man from the Future by Ananyo Bhattacharya
  • Pessoa: An Experimental Life by Richard Zenith
  • A Mind for Numbers by Barbara
  • All the Mathematics You Missed by

Worst book: Squeak the Mouse by Massimo Mattioli


Essays and sites

  • Scott Alexander, ‘WebMD and the Tragedy of Legible Expertise’
  • Lena by Sam Hughes
  • https://www.residentcontrarian.com/p/on-the-experience-of-being-poor-ish
  • https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/things-i-learned-writing-the-lockdown
  • https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/whither-tartaria
  • https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/welcome-polygenically-screened-babies
  • https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/perpendicular-lives
  • https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-down-and-out-in
  • https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-online-culture
  • https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-progress-and-poverty https://ianleslie.substack.com/ https://milan.cvitkovic.net/writing/things_youre_allowed_to_do/ https://danluu.com/look-stupid/ http://strataoftheworld.blogspot.com/ https://markxu.com/ https://acko.net/files/gltalks/toolsforthought/ https://dynomight.net/alcohol-trial/ http://blog.fogus.me/2021/12/27/the-best-things-and-stuff-of-2021/

Tweets

Rex threads


Films / TV

  • Gankutsuou
  • Fleabag

  • Sopranos for the third time

  • Playtime
  • Tenet

  • Wings of Desire

  • Envy by Contrapoints


Podcasts


Games

  • Shadowrun Dragonfall
  • Slipways
  • In these Waters
  • Wasteland 3


Albums

  • Metaphorical Villainy
  • Mm Food
  • Super What? by Czarface and DOOM
  • 诱惑 by Takuro Glay / Vanessa-Mae
  • public void by Penelope
  • Inside by Burnham
  • Cardinal by Cardinal
  • Space 1.8 by Nala
  • The Aberrant Years by Feedtime
  • Grapefruit by Kiran Leonard
  • All of Me (1979) by Masayoshi Takanaka


Songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42j4ImARwPU

  • Ballad of Accounting
  • I Murder Hate
  • You Were Too Good To Be True
  • Rapp Snitch Knishes
  • Compersion
  • Cluster 777
  • Lenin-dal
  • Summer’s Gone
  • 布団の中から出たくない
  • Everyone Is Horrid Except Me (And Possibly You) - Bret Mckenzie
  • Fireplace - Kiran Leonard
  • Welcome to the Internet - Bo Burnham
  • David Byrne’s fave instrumentals

Deals

  • Deebot N79S (£150). Endearing!
  • Morphy Richards Fastbake Breadmaker (£60). ROI in 1 year.
  • OnePlus 9 (£600). First fancy phone. Google Pay and 120Hz screen.
  • Amazon Basics Portable Security Case (£20) to protect my attention from the phone. 100% ROI in 1 week.
  • EasyAcc Small Personal USB Fan (£15).
  • Bought a power rack and set of plates second-hand (£800). Mate was delighted to let me put it in his garage. Compare to a gym membership: 100% ROI in 3 years, followed by 95% resale value.