Week off work

I'm enjoying my week off work.

The boy and I went to Happy Valley and flew a kite in one of the meadows surrounded by woodland. In the evening had a few beers in my road's communal garden with 10 of my closest neighbours :-) And one of my neighbour's finished fixing my bike! Neighbours are great.

I cycled to Selsdon Wood and back, and discovered the Vanguard Way, which is now on my walk list. And went for a walk with a friend in the evening.

I took delivery of an Akai MPC X and made some tunes. Very steep learning curve. There's so many great people to learn from on YouTube, on just any topic. YouTube is revolutionary when it comes to learning from people's tacit knowledge. Originally found this article from this twitter thread where one tweet refers to YouTube as "the internet of know-how".

Massively available video recordings of practitioners in action change this entirely. Through these videos, learners can now partially replicate the master-apprentice relationship, opening up skill domains and economic niches that were previously cordoned off by personal access.

Also, found homes for things I don't need anymore. Facebook Marketplace and local buy/sell groups is the only time I venture on to Facebook. I had a quick look over the fence at the social feed. Still awful.

And the boy went back to school and is enjoying it! On the walk back home, after school, I noticed people drinking pints outside one of the locals.