Time frame: Nov 10-18, 2017
Tools: Moves & Mapbox
Yellow: Walking
Red: Transport
Time frame: Nov 10-18, 2017
Tools: Moves & Mapbox
Yellow: Walking
Red: Transport
Distance: 765km
Duration: 1:30h
CO2 Emissions: 0.06t
Airline: Vueling
Activity: Reading
Time frame: Oct 27 – Nov 10 (340 hours)
Number of steps: 141706 (-27% compared to Budapest)
Modes of transport: 5
Coworking spaces visited: 2
Coffees consumed: 8 (-55%)
Productivity score: 65% (+1pp)
Tools: Moves & Mapbox
Yellow: Walking
Red: Transport
Summary:
Read 1 book (120 min, +85%) and 29 long-form articles (-28%).
Listened to 1071 songs (+94%, highest number since July 2013), 2 audiobooks (834 min, +13%) and 3 podcasts (183 min, -60%).
Watched 1 movie (-66%), 7 soccer matches (-22%) and 2 TV episodes (-86%).
Books:
American Pastoral (Philip Roth)
░▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ Progress: 5-95%
Leonardo da Vinci (Walter Isaacson)
▓░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ Progress: 0-3%
Venture Deals (Brad Feld)
▓▓▓░░░░░░░░░░░░ Progress: 0-23%
Recommended Articles:
Defining Aggregators (Stratechery)
Algorithms Have Already Gone Rogue (Backchannel)
Universal Basic Income and the Threat of Tyranny (Quillette)
See my notes on this here.
North Korea Is Playing a Longer Game Than the U.S. (Tyler Cowen, Bloomberg)
Amazon HQ2 – The Uber Test (Hal Berenson)
‘I Forgot My Pin’: An Epic Tale of Losing $30,000 in Bitcoin (Wired)
Computing and the Fermi Paradox: A New Idea Emerges—The Aliens Are All Asleep (IEEE Spectrum)
Big data meets Big Brother as China moves to rate its citizens (Wired)
Recommended Podcasts:
Blade Runner 2049 (Tomorrow with Joshua Topolsky)
Recommended Movies:
Music
Top Artists: Hans Zimmer, Washed Out, Beck, The National, James McAlister
Favorite Song: Beck – I’m So Free
Distance: 250km
Duration: 3:05h
Mode of transport: Bus
Company: Flixbus
Activity: Listening to Philip Roth’s American Pastoral on Audible
Time spent in Budapest: 332 hours
Number of steps: 194397
Modes of transport: 3
Coworking spaces visited: 5
Coffees consumed: 18
Productivity score: 64%
Tools: Moves & Mapbox
Yellow: Walking
Red: Transport
I spent 14 days in Budapest this October.
Here are a few notes and thoughts:
Budapest has some incredibly beautiful metro stations. Especially the new M4 line is really well designed and feels more modern than most underground lines you would find elsewhere in Europe. The other lines are significantly older (the Budapest metro is the oldest electrified underground railway system on the European continent in fact) and look like straight out of a Wes Anderson movie. Here are some pictures I took during the last 130 minutes I spent underground.
Summary
Read (parts of) 3 books (65 min, +17%) and 40 long-form articles (+29%).
Listened to 551 songs (+1%), 2 audiobooks (740 min, -7%) and 7 podcasts (0%).
Watched 3 movies (+50%), 9 soccer matches (+29%) and 14 TV episodes (-44%).
Books
Homo Deus (Yuval Noah Harari)
░░░░░░░░░░░░░▓▓ Progress: 90-100%
F (Daniel Kehlmann)
▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ Progress: 0-100%
American Pastoral (Philip Roth)
▓░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ Progress: 0-5%
Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson)
░▓░░░░░░░░░░░░░ Progress: 4-8%
Reality is Broken (Jane McGonigal)
▓░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ Progress: 0-5%
Recommended Articles
Definite optimism as human capital (Dan Wang*)
* Discovered his blog through this article and enjoyed almost every post. Go subscribe!
Why WeWork Thinks It’s Worth $20 Billion (Wired)
Artificial intelligence: ‘We’re like children playing with a bomb’ (The Guardian)
From Muhammad to ISIS: Iraq’s Full Story (Wait But Why)
YC’s Essential Startup Advice (Y Combinator)
Recommended Podcasts
Scott Galloway: Should Amazon buy Nordstrom next? (Recode Decode)
Music
Top Artists: Maya Jane Coles, The National, Washed Out, Philip Glass, Arcade Fire
Favorite Song: Maya Jane Coles – Weak