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For those of you who are curious enough, here's what's going on in my life right now. I'll try to list all my professional and personal projects here to better bridge the gap between ideation, creation and presentation. I'll try to update this page regularly, so hopefully I see you coming back soon.
The past few weeks were busy, family tech support kept me going. So updates here as well as on cogmodo.com were slow. I'm sorry about that.
Topics like technology, science, automation, writing and personal knowledge management (PKM) have always been important to me. So far I've never talked much about these interests, at least not publicly. But as these things are part of my daily life and since I find myself continuously exploring these subject matters I thought about giving them more room and a dedicated space. So just very recently I created a new site called cogmodo.com where I'm trying to write about all those topics that are hard to fit in here under the aboutgrau.com umbrella. So if you find some time head over there and let me know what you think.
I'm continuing my reading of "Blue Machine" by Helen Czerski about our oceans, how they work and how they influence our life on planet earth. Going through this book takes me longer than anticipated which is completely my fault. The book itself is carefully written and divided into several easy to read and easy to grasp episodes or mini stories. It's a science related book, so at some point you'll hear more about it over at cogmodo.com.
I'm continuing my evening reading sessions with William Gibson. All his science fiction or at least tech inspired novels are currently quite fascinating and soothing to me. After "Pattern Recognition", I've read the famous "Neuromancer" and I'm now back in the "Blue Ant" universe with my third book from him called "Spook Country".
Back from my summer holiday I've been starting to organize and edit all the new photos I've brought home. The first post about these new images is starting with a fresh series right here.