A Nod to Nothing: September 2020 Reading

I need to get better at more of a day-by-day entry system, because dang was this a lot of stuff to track. I feel weirdly underread this month despite what is obviously a LOT of reading. I didn't even include starting Little, Big right at the end of the month and some of Dying of Whiteness that may become a co-bedside book with The English. And Lovecraft Country doesn't include that I'm going to watch the series on HBO because I don't do television here. Argh...see, I can already tell I missed the Tim Minchin podcast with David Tennant and that was one of my favorites. Drove me down a whole musical aside. Or Cush Jumbo. Sigh... I bolded the four Tennant podcasts episodes I liked best, but they were all really, really good. I think Levy's was the one I like least, because I haven't watched his series, although I loved the stories with his dad and his experience in the industry and life.

9/30/2020: Nerdist Book Club - Lovecraft Country Part 2 [59:08]
9/29/2020: Nerdist Book Club - Lovecraft Country Part 1 [81:13]
9/28/2020: Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
9/27/2020: Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
9/26/2020: Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
9/25/2020: Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
9/24/2020: Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
9/23/2020: Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
9/22/2020: oh nos - I'm all caught up in the David Tennant podcast series. Have to find a new one. Kind of hard. Tried Lore, didn't like it. The Facts of the day one is fun, but more frivolous. I'm going to go with one from the Times re: internet radicalization, but it's a limited three hour series. Obviously didn't listen to all of these on the same day, but I do get in at least 45 minutes of walking a day, so I keep up a good flow of information. Should maybe try a history one, but I seem to be fairly particular when it comes to topic flow, voice. Fake doctors is good, but sooo long in some way. There's a Dead Eyes podcast similar to Tennant about Holywood rejection stories. That might be good, but less educational. I'd try a machine learning one, but I worry about mentally checking out while I walk and multitask doing Litterati/etc.

David Tennant Does a Podcast With...Tim Minchin [45:00] - 22 September 2020
David Tennant Does a Podcast With...Cush Jumbo [45:00] - 15 September 2020
David Tennant Does a Podcast With...Dan Levy [45:00] - 8 September 2020
David Tennant Does a Podcast With...Judi Dench [45:00] - 1 September 2020
David Tennant Does a Podcast With...George Takei {45:00] - 25 August 2020
David Tennant Does a Podcast With...Stacey Abrams [45:00] - 18 August 2020
David Tennant Does a Podcast With...Jim Parson [45:00] - 11 August 2020
David Tennant Does a Podcast With...Everyone - season outtakes - 21 May 2019
David Tennant Does a Podcast With...Michael Sheen [45:00] 23 April 2019
David Tennant Does a Podcast With...Tina Fey [45:00] - 16 April 2019
David Tennant Does a Podcast With...Samantha Bee [45:00] - 9 April 2019
David Tennant Does a Podcast With...James Cordon [45:00] - 2 April 2019

9/21/2020: The English and Their History - Robert Tombs

Recording fifty page chunks...made it to roughly page 100 the second half of the month. It's my bedside, read a few pages before sleep book which tends to run a little meatier than what I'm reading otherwise.

9/20/2020: The English and Their History - Robert Tombs
9/19/2020: Piles and piles of articles on geographically dispersed teams. See my inbox for "How to Make Location-Independent Agile Work", "6 Tools to Help you Manage Geographically Dispersed Teams", and about a dozen others. Some nice images I captured to my history.
9/18/2020: New AI Tool GPT-3 Ascends to New Peaks, But Proves How Far We Still Need to Travel
9/17/2020: A Robot Wrote this Entire Article. Are you Scared Yet, Human? Gpt-3
9/16/2020: Jonathan Blow - Preventing the Collapse of Civilization [64:40]. Rewatched with my team for a lunch event, so I saw it twice.
9/15/2020: Gender Equality in the Workplace Debunking the Myths. Online hour seminar with Lisa Thomas, Joeli Brearley, and Scarlett Curtis - this was on the 9th maybe.
9/14/2020:

How to Set Up An AI Center of Excellence
Ceremonies: Kickoff and Planning
Brands that Hyper-Personalize Will Win the Next Decade
Why Conversational AI Should not be an IT Project (Evan Kohn)
Should You Build or Buy AI? That's the Wrong Question

After all, what we’re talking about here is becoming AI-capable. Notice that I don’t say “AI-centric.”

If You Think GPT-3 Makes Coders Obsolete, You Probably Do Not Write Code
Stack Overflow GPT-3 Podcast [27:09]

9/13/2020:

Undead Stenches - Betrayal at House on the Hill (Pt 2) - Let's Play [68:45]
Tour de France 2020 - Stage 1 (Highlights) [19:40]
Tour de France 2020 - Stage 2 (Highlights) [19:28]
Tour de France 2020 - Stage 3 (Highlights) [15:54]
Captain Moxley and the Embers of the Empire by Dan Hanks

9/12/2020: David Tennant Podcast - https://www.david-tennant.com/podcast - listen to these while I'm running or getting in a walk to the grocery store / Target / etc.

David Tennant Does a Podcast With...Olivia Colman [45:00] - January 28, 2019
David Tennant Does a Podcast With...Whoopi Goldberg [45:00] - 5 February 2019
David Tennant Does a Podcast With...Jodie Whittaker [45:00] - 12 February 2019
David Tennant Does a Podcast With...Sir Ian McKellen [45:00] - 19 February 2019
David Tennant Does a Podcast With...Jon Hamm [45:00] - 26 February 2019
David Tennant Does a Podcast With...Gordon Brown [45:00] - 5 March 2019
David Tennant Does a Podcast With...Jennifer Garner [45:00] - 12 March 2019
David Tennant Does a Podcast With...Catherine Tate [45:00] - 19 March 2019
David Tennant Does a Podcast With...Krysten Ritter [45:00] - 26 March 2019
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal E-Mohtar and Max Gladstone