When I moved to Spain I had to give away my old books (not that I organised them into a shelf). In the last couple of years I've had a more curated but slowly growing collection of books that is actually organised for books I value. And for those which I meanly wish to consume their content I read o...

I always found, from the point of view of an interest in history, the observations of Hobbes and Machiavelli (and Thucydides if you class him as a philosopher) about the nature of power hold a lot of insight if you want to understand what makes the world work
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Working from home has meant less pressure to take the shortest route back at the end of work and instead go on a long walk around where I love. It is also true in recent years I don't drink as much as before - I would regularly have about 8 pints with friends in London that I knew from my masters de...