Last updated: 27 Aug, 2025
This is a /now page, listing out the stuff that's going on with me at the moment. If you have your own site, you should make one too.
What's happening?
- I haven't been blogging or really having much of an online presence for a while. Getting a bit of an itch to do something about that...
- I'm due to host a talk on AI within CX/surveys/market research at our company conference in a few weeks. Trying to nail the narrative at the moment.
- We've had some lousy raised-expectations-then-dashed-hopes medical news of late. It's been a bit of a bummer.
- We visited the Ashmolean to see the Stanley Donwood/Thom Yorke/Radiohead exhibition. It was... not very good, sadly. A few curios like notebooks of lyrics under glass but mostly printouts of album artwork. Oddly muted for an exhibition of a band.
- After six weeks of trying I've solved a Rubik's cube unaided! It was a fluke though - I still need to memorise the sequences for two stages in the process and was just lucky that the cube landed in such a way that those final stages were already done.
- It's been a nice sunny final few weeks of summer and I've tried to make the most of it.
What I’m listening to:
- Wet Leg - Moisturizer · This remains my main listening. It's just superb.
- Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour of Bewilderbeast
- Blur - 13
- Radiohead - Kid A
What I’m reading:
- Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
- Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams · Good and important, but annoyingly naive.
- LA Baby! by Tim Key · I really enjoy his poetry/scripts in this format.
- Dilla Time by Dan Charnas
- Private Eye
Oh, and I maintain an archive of the books I read over on The Storygraph.
What I’m watching:
- Materialists · This had something interesting to say - a cynical, capitalist view of people having romantic value - but fumbled the ending.
- Curb Your Enthusiasm
- The Studio
- Poker Face · Loved series one, love Columbo even more, felt this was a letdown. Not sure I'll be tuning in for a third series.
- Bob's Burgers