March
Reading
Accountability sinks hits close to home and I think I will be ordering Dan Davie’s The Unaccountability Machine.
Other fun reads discovered through RSS subscriptions and Hacker News:
- The carefulness knob
- The Night Watch by James Mickens
This Month I Learned
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system. John Gall (1975) Systemantics: How Systems Really Work and How They Fail
Watching
I will be ticking off one huge item on my bucket list this summer by racing Badlands, a 800km +16.000m gravel race in Granada / Almería - Spain. No better way to get motivated for long training rides than by watching Lachlan Morton’s record ride around Australia.
Another race I kept an eye on - the most grueling, brutal, and impossible race - is the Barkley Marathons conceived by Gary “Lazarus Lake” Cantrell (the man that’s also behind Big’s Backyard Ultra) and held at Frozen Head State Park in Tennessee. This year, nobody finished, but documentary of Jasmin Paris’s finish last year (first woman to finish the race) is a worthwhile watch providing insight into just how tough and demanding the race is.