Weekly Head Voices #212: Use it, or lose it

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Well hello there folks, and welcome to the 212th edition of the Weekly Head Voices!

This one covers the two weeks from Monday December 7 to Sunday December 20, 2020. My end-of-year vacation started at some point during the period under investigation, so there’s not all that much to report here, except perhaps for a small philosophy message brought to you by the world of science.

Figure 1: View of the bridge over the mouth of the Steenbras River, taken from our anniversary hike up Steenbras Gorge to the Crystal Pools and back.

Figure 1: View of the bridge over the mouth of the Steenbras River, taken from our anniversary hike up Steenbras Gorge to the Crystal Pools and back.

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Notes on the book "Creativity, Inc." by Ed Catmull with Amy Wallace

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You are reading the consolidated and refined version of the notes and excerpts I made while reading the book Creativity Inc..

This is by no means a complete summary of the book, but rather a collection of lessons that I found note-worthy.

Overview

The book deals with the building and maintenance of sustainable creative organizations, painted on the rich background of Ed Catmull’s role in the construction and running of Pixar and later also of Disney Animation.

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Weekly Head Voices #211: Table Mountain Run(ish)

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Welcome back to the Weekly Head Voices friends!

These ones, the two hundred and eleventh (haha, remember at school you always wondered if anyone would ever really need to be able to write out numbers… IT WAS ALL FOR ME) edition, will hopefully be talking more or less coherently about events that took place during the two weeks from Monday November 23 to Sunday December 6 of the year 2020.

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Weekly Head Voices #210: MiniBurn 2020

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Welcome back to the WHV blogging clubhouse, gang!

Somewhat inspired by Descartes, I can say with a fair amount of confidence that you are now reading these words, and for that I am grateful.

This post covers the weeks from Monday, November 9 to Sunday, November 22 of the year 2020.

papercite_static: put some bibtex into your Hugo

After languishing for almost a year on my todo list, I finally got around to cleaning up and making available my Python script for embedding your BiBTeX bibliographies in your markdown files.

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Weekly Head Voices #207: Kogelberg

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The 207th edition of the Weekly Head Voices, which in theory should cover the week from Monday October 5 to Sunday October 11, 2020, is in fact only here to remind future me of that time when I took the Thursday October 8 off from work to go run the Kogelberg Trail with friends PK, TvD and EW.

(Ok, well maybe there is also a backyard philosophy thing hidden at the end of the post…)

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Weekly Head Voices #204: What is your purpose?

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Welcome back here folks, to the 204th edition of the Weekly Head Voices, examining a sample of life from Monday September 7 to Sunday September 13, 2020.

Summer is starting to make an appearance down here, albeit with a bit more subtlety, some would say difficulty, than usual.

Fortunately, the week in question offered plenty of opportunities for being outside, opportunities that some of us made grateful use of.

Figure 1: Random scene from a lunch at Guardian Peak with one of my most long-time friends who as a bonus is also brilliant company. What you see is the result of three iPhone photos stitched together with Microsoft Research’s Image Composite Editor, and the power of math.

Figure 1: Random scene from a lunch at Guardian Peak with one of my most long-time friends who as a bonus is also brilliant company. What you see is the result of three iPhone photos stitched together with Microsoft Research’s Image Composite Editor, and the power of math.

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