2026-05-09: 📺 Watched Dirty Business.

2026-05-09: 📺 Watched Death in Paradise season 15.

2026-05-07: 📺 Watched Beyond Paradise Season 4.

2026-05-05: 📚 Finished reading Witch Trial by Harriet Tyce.

2026-05-05: 📺 Watched Matlock Season 2.

2026-05-03: 📺 Watched Pluribus.

2026-05-02: 📺 Watched The Apprentice season 20.

2026-04-30: 📺 Watched The War Between the Land and the Sea.

2026-04-26: 📚 Finished reading Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall.

2026-03-22: 📚 Finished reading OSINT Techniques: Resources for Uncovering Online Information by Michael Bazzell and Jason Edison.

2026-03-22: 📚 Finished reading Cult of the Dead Cow How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World by Joseph Menn.

2026-03-19: 📚 Finished reading The Cut Throat Trial by S J Fleet.

2026-03-16: 🎶 Listening to The Wild, the Innocent & the Raging by Iluka.

2026-03-16: 🎶 Listening to The Clearing by Wolf Alice.

2026-03-08: 📚 Finished listening to V for Vendetta by Steve Moore.

2026-02-28: 🎶 Listening to Bleeds by Wednesday.

2026-02-26: 📚 Finished reading Julia by Sandra Newman.

2026-02-25: 📚 Finished reading This Is for Everyone by Tim Berners-Lee.

2026-02-18: 🎥 Watched The Big Short.

2026-02-14: 📚Finished listening to Exterminate/Regenerate by John Higgs.

2026-02-03: 📚 Finished reading Artificial Wisdom by Thomas R Weaver.

2026-02-03: 🎶 Listening to moisturizer by Wet Leg.

2026-02-03: 📺 Watched season 4 of The Traitors.

2026-01-24: 🎥Watched Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale .

2026-01-24: 📚 Finished reading: Year of the Rat by Harry Shukman.

2026-01-23: 📚 Finished reading Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari.

2026-01-11: 📚Finished reading Poverty Safari by Darren McGarvey.

2026-01-11: 📺 Watched This Country seasons 1-3.

2026-01-05: 📺 Watched Return To Paradise seasons 1 and 2.

2025-12-23: 📚 Finished reading: The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown.

2025-11-25: 🎥 Watched Cruella.

2025-11-23: 📚 Finished reading Deadline by Steph McGovern.

2025-11-23: 📺 Watched You season 5.

2025-11-12: 🎶 Listening to Dreams on Toast by The Darkness.

2025-11-12: 🎶 Listening to Mayhem by Lady Gaga.

2025-11-10: 📺 Watched The Celebrity Traitors Season 1.

2025-11-08: 📚 Finished reading Minority Rule by Ash Sarkar.

2025-11-05: 📚 Finished reading Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams.

2025-10-25: 📚 Finished reading Tell Me an Ending by Jo Harkin.

2025-10-09: 📺 Watched Wednesday seasons 1 and 2.

2025-10-09: 📺Watched Doctor Who season 2.

2025-10-09: 📺 Watched The Inheritance season 1.

2025-10-09: 📺 Watched Black Mirror season 7.

2025-10-07: 🎥 Watched Infinity Pool.

2025-10-02: 📚 Finished reading The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks.

2025-09-11: 🎥 Watched The Mauritanian.

2025-08-25: 📚 Finished reading Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took on the West by Catherine Belton.

2025-08-25: 📚 Finished reading Butler to the World by Oliver Bullough.

2025-08-16: 📚 Finished reading America, América by Greg Grandin.

2025-07-20: 📺 Watched seasons 1-3 of The White Lotus.

2025-07-20: 📺 Watched season 3 of Beyond Paradise.

2025-07-20: 🎶 Listening to Cacophony by Paris Paloma.

2025-07-20: 🎶 Listening to Mirror Starts Moving Without Me by Pom Pom Squad.

2025-07-20: 🎶 Listening to Wake Up, Shut Up, Work by Millie Manders and The Shutup.

2025-07-20: 🎶 Listening to I’m Doing It Again Baby!

2025-06-28: 📚 Finished listening to The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman.

2025-06-12: 📚 Finished reading Conclave by Robert Harris.

2025-06-10: 📚 Finished reading: Unhinged: A Parody by Ian Martin.

2025-05-31: 📚 Finished listening to You Love Me by Caroline Kepnes.

2025-05-18: 📺 Watched seasons 1-4 of the US series of Ghosts.

2025-05-11: 📚Finished reading Queen Macbeth by Val McDermid.

2025-05-07: 📺 Watched Louis Theroux: The Settlers.

2025-04-29: 📚 Finished reading: Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson.

2025-04-27: 📚 Finished listening to Jung - A Very Short Introduction by Anthony Stevens.

2025-04-26: 📚 Finished reading Autocracy, Inc.

2025-04-25: 📚 Finished reading Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments by Ron Kohavi.

2025-04-24: 📺 Watched Matlock.

2025-04-21: 🎶 Listening to Super Pedestrian by Annie DiRusso.

2025-04-21: 📺 Watched Severance season 2.

2025-04-21: 🎙️ Listening to The Retrievals.

2025-04-19: 📺 Watched Death in Paradise season 14.

2025-04-19: 📺 Watched The Apprentice season 19.

2025-04-18: 📺 Watched Toxic Town.

2025-04-18: 📚 Finished listening to Hidden Bodies by Caroline Kepnes.

2025-04-06: 📚Finished reading Hillbilly Elegy by J D Vance.

2025-03-30: 📺 Watched Adolescence.

2025-03-23: 📚 Finished listening to You by Caroline Kepnes.

2025-03-20: 🎶 Listening to Critical Thinking by Manic Street Preachers.

2025-03-20: 🎶 Listening to Brat by Charli XCX.

2025-03-20: 📺 Watched Russia - A Thousand Years of History.

2025-03-08: 📚 Finished reading The You You Are: A Spiritual Biography of You by Ricken Lazlo Hale.

2025-03-06: 📚 Finished reading Severance - The Lexington Letter by Anonymous.

2025-03-05: 📚 Finished reading The Great Post Office Scandal by Nick Wallis.

2025-02-28: 📚 Finished reading Proof of Spiritual Phenomena by Mona Sobhani.

2025-02-23: 🎥 Watched Moonfall.

2025-02-23: 🎶 Listening to Feeling Not Found by Origami Angel.

2025-02-02: 📺 Watched season 1 of Out There.

2025-02-02: 📺 Watched season 3 of The Traitors.

2025-02-01: 📺 Watched Grieving Mother: AI was the Stranger in my Home.

2025-01-28: 🎶 Listening to Happenings by Kasabian.

2025-01-01: 📚 Finished reading 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami .

2024-12-30: 📺 Watched season 68 of Have I Got News For You.

2024-12-30: 📺 Watched Good Behavior.

2024-12-23: 🎶 Listening to some modern-day Christmas music: December’s Here by New Found Glory, Punk Rawk Christmas by MxPx and Let It Snow Baby…Let It Reindeer by Reliant K.

2024-12-21: 🎥 Watched The Devil Wears Prada.

2024-12-20: 📧 Reading the Liner Notes newsletter.

2024-12-15: 🎥 Watched Buried in Barstow.

2024-12-12: 🎶 Listening to From Zero by Linkin Park.

2024-12-08: 📚 Finished reading Depraved New World by John Crace.

2024-12-06: 📚 Finished reading Michael Jackson’s Malt Whisky Companion by Michael Jackson.

2024-12-02: 📺 Watched season 7 of Young Sheldon.

2024-11-30: 📺 Watched Breath of Fire.

2024-11-22: 📚 Finished listening to Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn.

2024-11-17: 📺 Watched Rivals.

2024-11-16: 🎮 Played Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney.

2024-11-16: 🎥 Watched A Haunting in Venice.

2024-11-16: 🎥 Watched Dune: Part 2.

2024-11-09: 📚 Finished reading Rough Justice by Wendy Joseph.

2024-10-27: 🎥 Watched Oppenheimer.

2024-10-15: 📚 Finished listening to Fall of Giants by Ken Follett.

2024-10-04: 📚 Finished reading The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff.

2024-09-28: 🎥 Watched Hidden Figures.

2024-09-14: 🎶 Listening to HIT ME HARD AND SOFT by Billie Eilish.

2024-09-14: 🎶 Listening to Radical Optimism by Dua Lipa.

2024-09-13: 🎶 Listening to ~mAntras~ by Alien Ant Farm.

2024-09-05: 📄 Reading the Pivot to AI blog.

2024-08-31: 🎥Watched Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde.

2024-08-30: 🎥 Watched Legally Blonde.

2024-08-25: 📚 Finished reading Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel.

2024-08-14: 📚 Finished reading Starting & Running a Business All-in-One For Dummies by Colin Barrow.

2024-08-11: 📺 Watched Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

2024-08-09: 📚 Finished reading Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway.

2024-08-01: 📚 Finished reading The Future by Naomi Alderman.

2024-07-21: 🎮 Played Disco Elysium - The Final Cut.

2024-06-28: 📚 Finished reading Politics on the Edge by Rory Stewart.

2024-06-26: 📧 Reading the Political Calculus newsletter.

2024-06-21: 📺 Watched Clarkson’s Farm.

2024-06-02: 📚 Finished reading Lost in a Good Game by Pete Etchells.

2024-06-01: 📺 Watched Beyond Paradise season 1 and 2.

2024-05-28: 📽 Watched Civil War.

2024-05-27: 🎭 Excitedly awaiting ‘Standing at the Sky’s Edge’, which claims to be ‘the best British musical in decades’.

2024-05-18: 🎶 Listening to The Tortured Poets Department by Taylor Swift.

2024-05-16: 📺 Watched Pompeii: The New Dig.

2024-05-15: 📚 Finished reading Between Death and Life by Dolores Cannon.

2024-05-11: 📚 Finished reading Ghost Hunter by Hans Holzer.

2024-05-09: 📺 (Re)watching Westworld.

2024-05-08: 🎥 Watched Barbie (the movie).

2024-04-26: 🎶 Listening to Kaiser Chief’s Easy Eighth Album by The Kaiser Chiefs.

2024-04-25: 📚 Finished reading The Physics of Sorrow by Georgi Gospodinov.

2024-04-23: 📺 Watched season 13 of Death In Paradise.

2024-04-21: 📚 Finished reading Becoming a Data Head by Alex J Gutman and Jordan Goldmeier.

2024-04-20: 📧 Reading the Data Is Plural newsletter - “a weekly newsletter of useful/curious datasets”.

2024-04-11: Started learning how to be a ‘Full-Stack Developer’ with Mimo.

2024-04-05: 📧 Reading the Garbage Day newsletter.

2024-04-05: 📺 Watched season 21 of of Dragon’s Den.

2024-03-31: 📺 Watched The Power.

2024-03-27: 🎶 Listening to Saviors by Green Day.

2024-03-24: 📚 Finished reading The Bezzle by Cory Doctorow.

2024-03-24: 🎶 Listening to GUTS (spilled) by Olivia Rodrigo.

2024-03-20: 📺 Watched Black Mirror season 6.

2024-03-17: 📚 Finished reading The Abuse of Power by Theresa May.

2024-03-02: 📚 Finished reading The PK Cookbook by Sarah Myhill.

2024-02-29: 📚 Finished listening to Out of the Blue by Harry Cole.

2024-02-26: 🎙️ Listening to Cyber: The End of Vice podcast.

2024-02-26: 🎙 Listening to Cyber: The End of Vice podcast.

2024-02-22: 📚 Finished reading In Ascension by Martin MacInnes.

2024-02-14: 📺 Watching The Apprentice - season 18.

2024-02-05: 📧 Reading the Bits About Money newsletter.

2024-02-03: 📺 Watched season 6 of The Crown.

2024-02-03: 📺 Watched season 2 of The Traitors (UK version).

2024-01-26: 🎶 Listening to Sweet Justice by Tkay Maidza.

2024-01-21: 📚 Finished reading: Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov.

2024-01-13: 📺 Started the mammoth mission of watching all available ‘classic’ Doctor Who episodes, 1963-1996.

2024-01-13: 📺 Watched Mr Bates vs The Post Office.

2023-12-31: 📚 Finished reading The Lost Cause by Cory Doctorow.

2023-12-22: 📚 Finished reading Being You: A New Science of Consciousness by Anil Seth.

2023-12-14: 🎶 Listening to Stumpwork by Dry Cleaning.

2023-12-13: 📚 Finished reading Zero Days by Ruth Ware.

2023-11-28: 📚 Finished reading Upgrade by Blake Crouch.

2023-11-28: 📚 Finished reading The Extended Mind by Annie Murphy Paul.

2023-11-28: 🎶 Listening to GUTS by Olivia Rodrigo.

2023-11-27: 📚 Finished reading The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu.

2023-11-25: 📚 Finished reading The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Definitive Guide to Dimensional Modeling by Ralph Kimball and Margy Ross.

2023-11-17: 🎙️ Listening to Sherlock & Co.

2023-11-15: 📚 Finished reading Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

2023-11-15: 📚 Finished reading We Are Bellingcat by Eliot Higgins.

2023-10-29: 🎙️ Listening to ‘Breaking News Consumer’s Handbook: Israel/Gaza Edition’ from the On The Media podcast.

2023-10-28: 🎶 Listening to The More Red Chapter by Taylor Swift.

2023-10-26: 🎶 Listening to The Jaws of Life by Pierce The Veil.

2023-10-24: 🎶 Listening to Just a Christmas Dirtbag by Wheatus.

2023-10-21: 🎙️ Listening to The Ezra Klein Show podcast episode “Why A.I.

2023-10-12: 📚 Finished reading Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.

2023-10-08: 📺 Watched Jury Duty.

2023-10-08: 🎶 Listening to Re: This Is Why.

2023-09-19: 🎮 Currently playing The Battle of Polytopia.

2023-09-17: 🎙️ Listening to The Studies Show podcast.

2023-09-10: 🎶 Listening to Hell Is A Teenage Girl by Nessa Barrett.

2023-09-04: 📚 Finished reading Q by Christina Dalcher.

2023-08-17: 📧 Reading John Medina’s Substack newsletter.

2023-08-14: 📚 Finished reading: The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman.

2023-08-13: 📽 Watched Interstate 60.

2023-08-08: 🎙️ Listening to Brad & Will Made A Tech Pod.

2023-07-26: 🎶 Listening to Endless Summer Vacation by Miley Cyrus.

2023-07-24: 📚 Finished listening to The Monopolists by Mary Pilon.

2023-07-05: 📚 Finished reading 11.22.63 by Stephen King.

2023-07-04: 📚 Finished reading Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow.

2023-06-18: 📚 Finished reading: Divergent Mind by Jenara Nerenberg.

2023-06-07: 🎙 Listened to Tech Won’t Save Us podcast.

2023-06-07: 📺 Watched season 8 of Brooklyn 99.

2023-05-31: 📺 Watched Star Trek: Picard season 2 and 3.

2023-05-29: 🎶 Listening to This Is Why by Paramore.

2023-05-24: 📺 Watched Chernobyl.

2023-05-23: 📚 Finished reading Cat Pictures Please and Better Living Through Algorithms by Naomi Kritzer.

2023-05-23: 📺 Watched Shadow and Bone season 2.

2023-05-01: 🎶 Listening to Trustfall, by P!nk.

2023-04-30: 📚 Finished reading The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver.

2023-04-28: 🎙️ Listened to “The Most Amazing - and Dangerous - Technology in the World” from The Ezra Klein Show.

2023-04-24: 📺 Watched The Last Of Us.

2023-04-21: 📚 Finished reading Unlawful Killings by Her Honour Wendy Joseph KC.

2023-04-18: 📺 Watched season 12 of Death in Paradise.

2023-04-16: 📚 Finished reading We Do This ‘Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba.

2023-04-13: 📺 Watched Wednesday.

2023-04-13: 🎥 Watched The Batman.

2023-03-29: 📚 Finished reading Statistical Rethinking by Richard McElreath.

2023-03-26: 📺 Finished watching seasons 1-4 of Ghosts.

2023-03-20: 📚 Finished reading All About Love by bell hooks.

2023-02-24: 📚 Finished listening to Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe.

2023-02-20: 📚 Finished reading The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel A Van der Kolk.

2023-02-17: 🎙️ Listened to Unreal: A Critical History of Reality TV podcast.

2023-02-17: 🎙 Listened to Unreal: A Critical History of Reality TV podcast.

2023-02-10: 🎙️ Listening to Hard Fork.

2023-02-10: 🎙 This week’s Hard Fork podcast had an interesting section on the origin story of OpenAI, creators of the incredible chatGPT bot amongst other things.

2023-02-04: 📺 Watched The Traitors (US version).

2023-02-02: 📚 Finished reading: Recursion by Blake Crouch.

2023-02-02: 📺 Watched season 3 of Emily in Paris.

2023-01-31: 📚 Finished reading Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall.

2023-01-15: Played Into the Breach 🎮.

2023-01-09: 📺 Watched season 1 of The Traitors.

2023-01-06: Finished reading The It Girl by Ruth Ware 📚.

2023-01-05: Watched season 5 of The Crown 📺.

2022-12-31: Played The Pharaoh’s Tomb from Exit: The Game 🎲.

2022-12-30: Played the The Mysterious Ice Cave advent calendar from Exit: The Game 🎲.

2022-12-28: 📽 Watched The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause.

2022-12-22: 📽 Watched The Santa Clause 2.

2022-12-22: Listening to Love Sux by Avril Lavigne 🎶.

2022-12-16: Finished playing Danganronpa : Trigger Happy Havoc 🎮.

2022-12-09: Listening to Fear Of The Dawn by Jack White 🎶.

2022-12-08: 🎶 Listening to Wet Leg by Wet Leg.

2022-12-07: Listening to Dawn FM by The Weeknd 🎶.

2022-12-06: Listening to Mainstream Sellout by Machine Gun Kelly 🎶.

2022-12-04: Finished reading The Prestige by Christopher Priest 📚.

2022-12-04: Finished reading Principles and Practice of Structural Equation Modeling by Rex Kline 📚.

2022-12-02: Watched My Cousin Rachel📽.

2022-11-27: Finished playing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 🎮.

2022-11-25: Listening to Hold The Girl by Rina Sawayama 🎶.

2022-11-20: Finished reading All Our Relations by Tanya Talaga 📚.

2022-11-18: Watched season 12 - the final season - of The Big Bang Theory 📺.

2022-11-17: Listening to the If Books Could Kill podcast 🎙️.

2022-11-10: Listening to Midnights, by Taylor Swift 🎶.

2022-11-04: Finished reading: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 📚.

2022-11-03: Watched The Power of the Doctor Doctor Who special 📺.

2022-10-22: Watched season 2 of The Capture 📺.

2022-10-22: Listening to The Unraveling of PUPTheBand by PUP 🎶.

2022-10-22: Watched No Time To Die 📽.

2022-10-12: Watched season 1 of The Capture 📺.

2022-10-12: Finished listening to: A Special Place for Women by Laura Hankin 📚.

2022-10-09: On my way back from a very enjoyable New Scientist Live show, the first IRL one I’ve attended since the scourge of Covid started.

2022-10-05: Finished reading: A Book Of Secrets by Derren Brown 📚.

2022-10-04: Finished reading: Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen 📚.

2022-10-01: Watched season 1 of Shadow and Bone 📺, a fantasy type show based on an amalgamation of books by Leigh Bardugo.

2022-09-26: Watched Everything Everywhere All At Once 📽.

2022-09-25: Finished reading: Turning the Tide on Plastic by Lucy Siegle 📚.

2022-09-20: Finished reading: The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss 📚.

2022-09-15: Finished reading: How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS by David France 📚.

2022-09-10: Started watching Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power 📺, the LOTR prequel Amazon created.

2022-09-10: Finished reading: The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Change Your World by David Robson 📚.

2022-09-08: A colleague introduced me to Super Auto Pets 🎮, so now I’m addicted.

2022-09-04: Watched EastEnders 📺 for the first time in maybe a decade.

2022-08-31: Started watching season 3 of Locke and Key 📺.

2022-08-24: Finished reading: Sherlock Holmes and the Mayfair Murders by David Britland 📚.

2022-08-18: Finished reading: How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism by Cory Doctorow 📚.

2022-08-09: Watched Primal Fear 📽 over the weekend.

2022-08-07: Finished reading: The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy 📚.

2022-07-29: My current stats nerd learning focus is structual equation modeling.

2022-07-27: Finished reading: Oblivion: Stories by David Foster Wallace 📚.

2022-07-20: I’m enjoying the “Moriarty - the Devil’s Game” podcast.

2022-07-17: Temporarily paused watching the incredible Mr Robot show after season 2 to let it all sink into my brain.

2022-07-16: Finished listening to The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis 📚.

2022-07-03: 🎥 Watched The Game.

2022-07-03: Finally got around to trying out Fall Guys 🎮.

2022-06-28: I enjoyed The Haunting of Bly Manor 📺 more than I’d expected, so now moving on to watch it’s prequel-of-a-sort, the well-reviewed The Haunting of Hill House.

2022-06-19: Started watching The Haunting of Bly Manor 📺.

2022-06-18: Finished reading: The Dispatcher: Murder by Other Means by John Scalzi 📚.

2022-06-13: Currently reading: Oblivion: Stories by David Foster Wallace 📚.

2022-06-13: Finished reading: The Rise Of Communism by Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius 📚.

2022-06-01: Finished reading: The Trial by Franz Kafka 📚.

2022-05-23: 7 years behind the rest of the world, I’m just starting to watch Mr.

2022-05-18: Currently reading: The Trial by Franz Kafka 📚.

2022-05-15: Currently reading: Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move by Reece Jones 📚.

2022-05-15: 🎥 Watched Dune.