Thank you! I should upload more of my old portraits...

Thank you! The actual act of drawing so many closely spaced parallel lines is somewhere between Zen meditation and the sheer terror of bomb disposal. One false move...

Thanks! I like these little snapshots of people's lives.

This is where I come for all my goat content.

It's an idea from Lean management. Everything you need to keep, prevents you from keeping something else; requires you to remember where it is, where you could be remembering something else; takes longer to move when you have to move it; takes longer to organise than having less would. It poses fire hazards that having nothing wouldn't pose. Blocks light that having nothing wouldn't block. Keeping stuff is inherently wasteful.

None of this is to say that keeping stuff is bad. It may be very useful to keep it. But you should always recognise that doing so incurs a cost that you need to trade off against its usefulness.

While we're on it, inventory is one of the eight kinds of waste identified in Lean. They are:

• Transportation
• Inventory
• Motion
• Waiting
• Overproduction
• Overprocessing
• Defects
• Skills (misuse of)

Remember TIM WOODS.

All of this is meant for running a factory, but I've found a lot of them useful in other bits of life, especially the idea that Inventory is a form of waste.

I finished this one recently. It was brilliant and utterly horrifying. Have you read his previous one, How to Be a Liberal?

His book is THE best book on statistics I've ever read. Thoroughly recommended.

Interesting! I'm on Jerboa now, but I'll check it out. Thanks!

The boss move of course is to use the umbrella as a sail.

I've just got to 11kyu. If you're on online-go long enough, it turns out you can advance pretty far just by opponents timing out on games.

Reading these comments, there sure aren't a lot of R programmers out there.

RStudio for R, Spyder for Python, Emacs for either of the above when I want to be cool.

Thanks, I'll have a look!