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Day One is doubling down on AI journaling: https://dayoneapp.com/blog/introducing-day-one-silver-and-gold/
I've written thousands of entries in Day One, but despite their privacy assurances, I'm not enabling these features. Not yet.
These are the Wild West days of AI. Think carefully before you hand over your most private thoughts.
Finished reading: The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis 💙📚
A bleak science fiction tale from one of the 20th Century’s most under-appreciated novelists. ★★★☆☆
Full Review. https://micro.blog/books/9780795343025
Finished reading: Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner 📚💙
What a beautiful and poignant book. Hopeful and joyous at the possibilities of life, but bookended by the realities of disappointment and loss. ★★★★★
Finished reading: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain 💙📚 #books
Fascinating deep dive into the world of introversion and extroversion. Some meaningful parts of our temperament are genetic and passed down from our parents. If you’re a fussy, highly sensitive baby at four months, there’s a good chance you’ll grow up to be introverted. There seems to be a biological connection bet... https://blog.robertbreen.com/2025/03/27/finished-reading-quiet-the-power.html
Finished reading: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain 💙📚 Fascinating deep dive into the world of introversion and extroversion. Some meaningful parts of our temperament are genetic and passed down from our parents. If you’re a fussy, highly sensitive baby at four months, there’s a good chance you’ll grow up to be introverted. There seems to be a biological connection between high physical sensitivity and introversion.
Finished reading: The Old Man And The Sea by Ernest Hemingway 💙📚
Donald Sutherland did a wonderful job narrating this audiobook. It was nice to reacquaint myself with Hemingway’s short and simple sentences, yet so full of energy. Made me yearn for the ocean. ★★★★★ https://micro.blog/books/9781443414555
Patrick O’Brian, the author of the Aubrey-Maturin seafaring novels, would have been 104 years old today. Mr. O’Brian passed away in 2000 but left behind a treasure of twenty meticulously researched historical sea novels set in the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. The books center on the friendship and adventures of its two main characters: Jack Aubrey, a British naval officer, and Stephen Maturin, the ship’s surgeon, naturalist, and part-time intelligence agent.
