Gliding weekend was neat. I started learning how to land, which is intense and difficult as it basically entails pointing your plane to the ground, sticking to 60 mph, using flaps to position your landing and pulling up at the last second so you fly a few feet from the ground and can gently fall down. I wasn't too bad at it, let's hope that's still the case next time around.

I'm on track to read my third book in the last two weeks. I devoured Cal Newport's Deep Work in two days after listening to his discussion in the Ezra Klein podcast. I found his productivity tips quite useful and applied it immediately (and in my opinion, succesfully) to writing my thesis proposal last week. One of his recommendations that had a much higher impact than I expected was to remove my quick access to social media. I removed the apps from my phone, deleted social media bookmarks (only Hubski remains) and changed my homepage to something minimal instead of eight highly distracting websites. Suddenly I am wasting way less time (a tenth or something like that), time which I've been using to pursue side projects and read more.

Two books he recommended were Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus and You Are Not a Gadget, the former I finished yesterday and the latter I'm halfway through already. Both are very interesting reads, although Rushkoff's book really could have benefited from reading Graeber's Debt: The First 5000 years.