2018-12-16

Moment of the Day

we took a morning family trip to summaraecon serpong science park to
see a farm plot with a prefab on it.

miss maya sat curiously in a field on sunflowers poking at the earth
and pulling plants/

she has also started going "Roarrrrr" when she picks up a card of a
tiger. such developments, such joy.

2018-12-15

The silly things

In the morning miss Maya laughed a whole lot over the silly act of
dropping her her to sound effects of "brroooshhhh" and others of
similar silliness.

In the evening daddy and mommy had a whole lot of fun over blotting
but a beautiful storage at cork and screw where a lady shared her 2nd
marriage to a Scotsman.

It paired well with a ripe and fruity pino noir from Oregon. (Ergaon?).

2018-12-14

agile storytelling

while putting together the marketing plan, started to try using agile
story framework. things started clicking in unexpected ways- new
thoughts and solutions, simple things suddenly seemed relevant.

excited to push this further

2018-12-12

panda bear

i was told that maya, on hearing the words "Panda bear panda bear",
picked up the panda bear book.

2018-12-11

Extract of the Day

Reading...

Karin Littau and Andrew Piper have noted another dimension:
physicality. Piper, Littau and Anne Mangen's group emphasize that the
sense of touch in print reading adds an important redundancy to
information – a kind of "geometry" to words, and a spatial "thereness"
for text. As Piper notes, human beings need a knowledge of where they
are in time and space that allows them to return to things and learn
from re-examination – what he calls the "technology of recurrence".
The importance of recurrence for both young and older readers involves
the ability to go back, to check and evaluate one's understanding of a
text. The question, then, is what happens to comprehension when our
youth skim on a screen whose lack of spatial thereness discourages
"looking back."

The possibility that critical analysis, empathy and other deep reading
processes could become the unintended "collateral damage" of our
digital culture is not a simple binary issue about print vs digital
reading. It is about how we all have begun to read on any medium and
how that changes not only what we read, but also the purposes for why
we read. Nor is it only about the young. The subtle atrophy of
critical analysis and empathy affects us all. It affects our ability
to navigate a constant bombardment of information. It incentivizes a
retreat to the most familiar silos of unchecked information, which
require and receive no analysis, leaving us susceptible to false
information and demagoguery.

There's an old rule in neuroscience that does not alter with age: use
it or lose it. It is a very hopeful principle when applied to critical
thought in the reading brain because it implies choice. The story of
the changing reading brain is hardly finished. We possess both the
science and the technology to identify and redress the changes in how
we read before they become entrenched. If we work to understand
exactly what we will lose, alongside the extraordinary new capacities
that the digital world has brought us, there is as much reason for
excitement as caution.

We need to cultivate a new kind of brain: a "bi-literate" reading
brain capable of the deepest forms of thought in either digital or
traditional mediums. A great deal hangs on it: the ability of citizens
in a vibrant democracy to try on other perspectives and discern truth;
the capacity of our children and grandchildren to appreciate and
create beauty; and the ability in ourselves to go beyond our present
glut of information to reach the knowledge and wisdom necessary to
sustain a good society.

(https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/25/skim-reading-new-normal-maryanne-wolf?utm_source=densediscovery&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter)

2018-12-09

Sunday Breakfast

great success! the chia seed pudding firmed up overnight and went
great with the coconut granola.

retried maya's days old baby food with pickle juice and a 3 egg cheese omelet.

home baked bread to round it all off and a carafe of jet black coffee.

all this and a 80min run before 930am.

today's definitely my kind of day

2018-12-01

Family Time

We spent the morning in The Playground at kemang. Maya made 2 friends
and dad and mom played basketball.

At the end, we found a quaint Dutch restaurant for lunch. The food was
super legit.

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dads birthday in jakarta

dad had caviar and steak and some great wines. i had cannelloni, it
was delicious.

a scandinavian whiskey because it reminded me of john. it made me
smile. a great wine and conversation herbert and now it's time to
sleep. looking forward to time with maya tomorrow

2018-11-29

smarter. faster. Digital.

Had a great reaction to our new pitch today. The audience was OCBC, it
is an educational discussion on the difference between Revit vs
Digital as a broader concept.

High Points:

- great response to the media about coordination
- great questions and interest
- framework gave us a solid footing to establish was is recommended
for a digital project

2018-11-28

Moment of the Day

Today, we have CHICKEN for dinner! :)

2018-11-27

Moment of the Day

Maya has a new toy - the calamine lotion bottle. She holds it dearly
when going to sleep.

2018-11-26

Moment of the Day

going for the run in the evening before dinner and pushing it minute
by minute until a grand duration of 30mins.

this is day 2 of consecutive exercise before dinner. 🧸