Bristol
The beginning of the week saw me back in Bristol for a couple of days of workshops with Nomensa, a creative agency I’m working with.
Monday night we had dinner at The Coconut Tree an excellent Sri Lankan restaurant – superb food and lovely service.
Tuesday night I was flying solo and headed over to Wapping Wharf, a very cool collection of restaurants and bars all inside shipping containers.
I’ve always loved Bristol. My Dad was evacuated from London to the West Country and grew up in and around Bristol. He moved back to Bristol after a short period back in London and met my Mum when they were both working at Bristol University. As a child we used to visit my Dad’s mum, spending weekends in Bristol, Bath and Keynsham.
Bristol was weaved through the early part of my life, and it’s been lovely reconnecting with it over the last couple of years.
London
Thursday I was in London for Interact, Nomensa’s annual UX conference. It was a really good day of talks and great being at a conference I wasn’t running. I wish I’d thought to count the number of times AI was mentioned, as a drinking game it would have been carnage.
90s rave detroit techno wednesday morning
Spotify has a cool new feature called daylist and I’m really enjoying it. Your daylist is an automatically generated playlist that changes through the day with morning, afternoon, evening and night versions based on what you tend to listen to at that time on the day in question.
So far my daylists have been pretty good with a nice mix of old and new tracks. My only concern is that if I then listen to the daylist it will confirm to the bot that is what I listen to and gradually reduce the new and prioritise the listened to, which I’ve always felt is the risk of AI generated playlists and timelines – confirmation bias induced ever decreasing circles.
The daylist names are entertaining in their own right:
- analogue minimal techno monday afternoon
- krautrock motorik thursday early morning
- groovy eclectic friday afternoon
- frutiger aero breakbeat Saturday night
- bells instrumental afternoon
Mind you confirmation bias induced ever decreasing circles isn’t a bad name for a playlist either…