Chronologically

1. Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc

   🍿🍿🍿💣💥 Three bags of popcorn and a… BOOM!

2. Pan's Labyrinth

   🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿📖🧚 Five bags of popcorn, a magic book and fairy to guide you through life’s labyrinth

3. Required reading indeed

   Starting day 1 of 02026 with a BIG coffee and the optional.is 02025 omnibus written by @briansuda@mastodon.social https://optional.is/required/2026/01/01/omnibus-02025/ required reading indeed! Feed your brain during this year by signing up to their RRS feed!

4. Build community centres, not data centres!

   Build community centres, not data centres!

5. Stewart Lee vs The Man-Wulf

   Seriously excited to be taking Boy to see Stewart Lee’s newest show at the Brighton Dome.

6. FFConf

   Volunteering for the brilliant FFConf.

7. Future value in a Design History

   Reading Benjy Stanton’s notes on working in the open https://www.benjystanton.co.uk/blog/govcamp-cymru-2025-working-in-the-open/ reminded me of design histories so now rewatching Paul Robert Lloyd’s UX London’s talk https://vimeo.com/841887944. I’m thinking this might be a potential solution for a challenge in my team.

8. Trails of experience

   Walk a mile in your customers shoes.

9. Ep.370: Deep Work in the Age of AI

   In this episode, Cal dives deep into the study and argues that when it comes to efforts that require deep work, AI can sometimes make things worse.

10. Cycles: 20250616-20250924

    Cycles: my new, no-pressure weeknotes. The seasons reverse.