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Kyrö Wood Smoke

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I’m not at all a fan of rye whiskey, but the Kyrö Wood Smoke is something different.

I like this one. The rye doesn’t hit you in quite the way it normally does. The spiciness is there, but tapers off quite gently. The whiskey is aged in ex-bourbon casks. Perhaps that has something to do with it.

Also amazing is that this whiskey comes from Finland – not one of the big names when it comes to whiskey distilleries, and so a really nice surprise.

Perhaps the Kyrö Wood Smoke will make me revisit my views on rye whiskey. Let’s see how that goes.

End of experiment

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Well, this particular experiment lasted no more than two days.

I don’t think I can restrict myself to reading only one book at a time. I’ve given it a try, but it doesn’t work for me.

I’ve already added another book to the January list – Nicolas Cole’s The Art and Business of Online Writing. Didn’t mean to buy it, but he writes so compellingly. I read the Kindle sample, and have now decided to read the whole book.

I know I won’t be disappointed. And I’m actually happy that the experiment failed.

Madoff on Netflix

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Currently watching the Bernie Madoff documentary on Netflix.

I’m on the second episode, and, so far, I like the series.

It is well made, if a bit slow in the storytelling. Great video and camera footage, does a good job in complementing the narration. They’ve also included a lot of footage of Madoff’s testimony during his deposition. Astounding stuff.

Ridiculous how easy it was for Madoff to get away for many years with such a massive Ponzi scheme.

And it appears that lessons have not yet been learnt. Recent happenings at Theranos and FTX clearly prove that point. One wonders how (over and over again) it is possible for people to commit fraud on such a large scale, and go undetected for such a long time. And we can be sure that there are more cases, yet to come to light.

So what does this say about our regulatory agencies, about the robustness of our financial systems, about our willingness to suspend disbelief when something looks too good to be true?

So much damage caused by the greed of fraudsters. Sympathies for all who have suffered from this.

How I use my iPad

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I use my iPad mainly as a consumption device (i.e. for consuming content). From time to time, I might write a few emails or short articles on it, but that’s not its main function. Also, because of the weird camera placement, I never do video calls on it.

Here are the main ways I use my iPad:

  • watching videos;
  • reading long-form articles;
  • reading sheet music while playing the piano;
  • as a “teleprompter” for my speeches and lectures;
  • playing music while exercising (the iPad Pro has amazing speakers).

In my experience, the iPad is great as a companion device, i.e. next to a laptop. I’m very much of the philosophy that an iPad should do “iPad things”, and a laptop should do “laptop things”.

Of course, if pushed, the iPad (and certainly the Pro models) could also do tasks that are best done on a laptop. However, if one had to do these laptop tasks on a regular basis, it would be more efficient to do them on a laptop. To coin a phrase, “give to the iPad the things that are the iPad’s, and, to the laptop, the things that are the laptop’s”.