About on Chris Woodall

Origin My fiancée Emily and I have been riding our bikes more frequently this year.

During the summer of 2023, I took 3 months off from June to September as I transitioned between two jobs.

This year I turned 31, which is not an auspicious year; other than it being the last year that you can represent on one hand counting in binary (2^5-1).

The Phoenix Project has been recommended to me by a lot of people over the years.

To Sell Is Human by Daniel H.

Recently I started playing bass guitar and working some music after a long period of not working on music too much.

Obsidian is a wonderful note-taking too, but until mid-2021 there was no official mobile application.

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Back in the day, I used to use Sibelius and Finale for music composition, and engraving.

When I am skiing and I am in a flow state I tend to be able to make all the turns I need to to keep my speed under control, weave through trees and not get flung down a steep mogul field.

Over the past year or so I got a few people asking me about meditation and mindfulness practice and how I would recommend getting started.

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One skill I attempt to practice consistently is the ability to jump through levels of abstraction.

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A few years ago, while in the middle of a big product release, I turned to a co-worker and asked them: What is the output of your work?

Recursion by Blake Crouch is an interesting take on a time travel thriller, involving characters and relationships across multiple time lines.

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On Saturday March 10, 2018 Don, Toni and I ventured out to Mt.

I have recently found myself writing a bunch of serialization (and deserialization) functions in C++ for some very basic structs, and classes.

I just got myself the Anker Equipment screw holder for my brand new rack of ice screws.

This summer I went to Squamish from August 11th-18th, 2017 with Alice Chiang, and a group made up of Matt, Lauren, Tiff and Josh.

A few of my friends have been trying to get me to read a book by Brandon Sanderson for quite some time.

Homer’s The Odyssey, as translated by Richard Fagles, is a classic.

I started listening to The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman while I was in JFK airport in NY.

In college I frequently would go on book reading binges during breaks, but I could not keep myself to a consistent schedule to read for pleasure during classes.

The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery is a frightening and enlightening book about global warming.

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K.

What would it be like on a world where everyone was an asexual hermaphrodite 99% of the time?

Nexus by Ramez Naam is a science fiction book which takes place in the near future, where technology has been created to link human minds, and possibly control them.

I finally read Frank Herbert’s classic novel Dune after avoiding it for a long time.

Beyond The Vertical by Layton Kor follows the climbing career from childhood into old age of the author.

Humans are story-tellers, we communicated by telling others about our experiences, about those of others, and most interestingly about things that never even happened.

Sebastian Junger’s Tribe is a short but poignant book about the transition from childhood to adulthood and belonging.

[William Finnegan’s] book Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life follows the authors obsession with surfing, from his childhood to adulthood with a long section of being a surf bum in between.

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of The World by Haruki Murakami involves 2 parallel, seemingly unrelated stories, which become more and more intertwined as the stories develop.

Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore is an elegantly written book filled with heady references and a magical-realism which penetrates this abstract reinterpretation of Oedipus Rex.