Nathan Wrigley

Nathan Wrigley

Nathan is not very interesting, and writes things that are also... not very interesting. He's of average height and weighs more than he ought to.

Hay fever

I’ve never had hay fever. Now I appear to have hay fever, and it’s brutal!

Seasons

I live in a part of the world where the seasons matter. In the winter, it’s cold and the plants die back. In the spring, the plants, and many other…

Music that I like

I’ve always liked folk music, and this is (a taste of) something that I think sums up why I like it.

Humans are remarkable.

Humans are really rather remarkable. We can do so many things. I find humans are at their very best when they create music. We won’t agree on what style of…

The universe is pretty big.

The James Webb telescope sent back the first image today and it really does make you think. The image shows galaxies as they were 13 billion years ago. This alone…

Platform fatigue.

Okay, so this is not something that most people will have to deal with, but I do. Everybody that I speak to has a platform (read… WhatsApp, Messenger, Slack, Signal…

Algorithms are not good at ‘human’.

Good grief. You cannot make this up. Nobody was hurt, thank goodness, but if you ask AI an open-ended question, you’re likely to get some silly / harmful answers… …

2021.

This appears to be the year in which… Nature 10 – 0 Humans I wonder how many years can pass in which we think that nature will allow us a…

Sometimes, (always?) time is the answer.

I know that this will come as no surprise to anyone, but I’m amazed at how often I forget the simple fact that time will always add some perspective to…

Why does everything have to grow?

I know that this is not a particularly ground-breaking idea, but… why do companies, ideas, projects have to grow to be considered successful? Why is not okay for anything to…