Nathan Wrigley

  • 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.

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  • 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 music is ‘perfect’, but this comes pretty close to me. It brings up so many emotions for me. I find it incredible and beyond extraordinary.

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  • 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 is remarkable when you think about it, but the fact that it covers a portion of the sky the size of a grain of sand […]

  • Can we all agree that house prices are just silly?

    So it’s the 26th May 2022, and energy prices are through the roof. Basic commodity prices are through the roof. All-the-things prices are through the roof… And the cost of buying a house (in the UK) is not just through the roof, it went through the roof a decade ago and now it’s approaching low […]

  • 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 et al.) which they prefer to use. This means that I have to communicate on dozens of different platforms. I can’t keep up! I have […]

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  • Humans are not good custodians of almost anything

    My hope is that humans go on to do great things, like explore space and make the Earth a greater place than it is now… but it seems like we don’t really have a right to that. It’s not clear that we can cope with the basic scenario of existing on Earth. War, the environment, […]

  • 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… https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59810383 Do some ‘honest-to-goodness’ research, then browse the internet. DO NOT ask some form of AI the answer!

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  • 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 free pass in all that we do?

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  • 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 situations / thoughts / ideas which I’m not happy about. Time will add a level of calm and understanding to almost everything decision you have […]

  • 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 just be the size it is now, the size it was two days after it started to be a success? I really don’t have an […]

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  • No value

    I think that I need a place on the internet to write down some of the thoughts that I have. I suspect that I’ll post to this site quite infrequently, mostly when the mood takes me, and time allows.