Music: Electronic Music to Code To.

Music: A Background Electronic Playlist. I stumbled across this Youtube playlist recently and liked it as a background tracklist for doing work. I’m partial to instrumental music when I’m typing and studying. There are a good mix of different artists in this list that means there is a bit of musical diversity in the songs. I also like that it has a chill component to it but isn’t so slow that it puts you to sleep....

February 9, 2023 · 1 min

Doco: The Century of Self (2002)

Intro I recently discovered “The Century of Self” (2002) documentary, which covers the life and career of Edward Bernays 1. Bernays was a social engineer and developed techniques to persuade groups of people. His techniques are often used in advertising, and over the last 100 years, have been used for political persuasion of the masses. The methods he used can be summerised as “appeal to emotions”. The documentary often puts his methods in a poor light, and hints at a sinister side by comparing Bernays to his contemporaries, such as the Nazi party....

February 8, 2023 · 5 min

Blog: Lessons from Last Week

Lessons from Last Week The last week of my life has been met with a couple of changes. It’s been nothing crazy, but there were definitely a couple of lessons I have relearned. Several of those lessons are ones where you don’t really know what you have (or don’t have) until you go through the experience. You don’t know how much stuff you have until you move house. I have relearned this lesson far too many times....

February 4, 2023 · 3 min