Fwends

Expeditions Into the Digital

Hi, I'm Peter. This is my website.

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  Batch and Flow 2025~06~21

  Everyone says "flow" is the thing, but sometimes batching beats one-at-a-time thinking. Learn when stockpiling tasks actually makes you more productive than going with the flow.

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  Assertive and Purposeful 2025~06~18

  How nuance is regained.

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  Quiet and Balanced 2025~06~17

  How nuance is lost.

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  Trees, AI, And Singing in Old English 2025~06~07

  A new Meeker Report on AI is out, a directory of ancient trees, Lorde's Royals in old english, and more

  

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  I've Written an Easter Egg And Now it's Gone 2025~06~04

  How do we define success?

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  I just migrated my website 2025~06~03

  And what I learned during the process. Mostly, I learned that past me was an incredibly lazy person, and present me is a much nicer and more dependable being.

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  Weeks, Webs, Wandering and Wondering 2025~05~28

  Why a basic building block of our temporal structure is completely made up, the future of the web and cities that vibe just like you.

  

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  An Easter Egg Nobody Found 2025~05~26

  When no-one finds your inside-joke

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  The Hidden Costs of Saving Time 2025~05~14

  Beyond a certain threshold, no technology saves time without forcing someone else to lose it

  

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  How Long It Takes To Form a Habit, and Other Tales From the Internet 2025~04~30

  I'm afraid it's faster to pick up a new habit than to undo the damage of Big Tech.

  

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  I Changed My View On Estimating Bugs and So Can You 2025~04~16

  Breaking down the common arguments against estimating bugs, why they don’t hold up under scrutiny, and how a more pragmatic approach can actually improve planning, transparency, and decision-making.

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  On Sleep 2025~04~16

  Sleeping and resting is important; But we're not really sure why.

  

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  Noise 2025~04~02

  Yet another thing we humans excel at.

  

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  The More Things Change ... 2025~03~19

  ... the more they stay the same. Or so it seems, when it comes to cycling software.

  

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  Helping Athletes See a Bigger Picture 2025~03~17

  Athletic training is about progress and improving. Clinging to single data points like individual rides is nice, but misses the point. What is needed to help see athletes the bigger picture?