Learning to dance with entropy

I often enjoy reading the regular emails that emanate from ‘The Daily Stoic’.

Here’s an extract from one that struck me:

“You clean and then it gets dirty. You do the dishes and then five minutes later, the sink is full again. You made it through your inbox in the morning and by the time late afternoon strikes, you’re already digging yourself out again. Literally before you’ve even finished putting the dog’s toys away, they’re splayed out across the floor. Just as you put the finishing touches on that big project, another is dropped on your plate. You finally organize your kids’ clothes and now they’ve grown out of them.

This can drive you nuts. Or you can learn to love it. Continue reading

COVID: A small – but significant – piece of Maths

It’s a Friday afternoon for me…and I was just about to log off and go home. I haven’t posted in a wee while and thought I’d have a quick peek at the set of ‘posts I’ve written but didn’t publish’ and I found a short one that amused me.

I wrote it at the peak of COVID-itus and, given some dramatic protests going on at that time, I chose to keep my powder dry.

But, bugger that…here it is (better late than never):

I’ve seen a repeating misunderstanding (e.g. within social media1) of the mathematics re. the relationship between vaccinated people and those being treated in hospital with COVID. Continue reading