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Jazz Albums List - Summer 2026

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Books Bookmark Us

It’s been a while since Caesura found your inbox. The name still feels right — a pause. A breath. So here's another.

On Passions

I was cleaning my inbox today. I went from 1500+ unread emails to zero in 2 days. Going through infinite amount of emails that I never read, I felt like going through the diary of my past and current...

Runs, Jazz, Parks and Ramen

Two months (!!!) of the summer are gone. History now. Is it not crazy? I hope you had a good summer.

Coffee Sour Beer

I had a dream a while ago. I was explaining some complex technical thing, and was doing it in my native Kazakh. I had a lot of trouble finding the rights words, without retreating to English terms....

Running is Hard

To go for run means to sign up for disappointment and be fine with it. There is always something to be disappointed about. There is always something that feels wrong. Your right leg hurts, your left...

Running as a Creative Process

This is Caesura, a newsletter seeking focus in the distracted and busy everyday life. And I am Adil, still here, still writing, still struggling through boredom, laziness, business, and all sorts of...

Status Anxiety

The year two thousand twenty three of our human history is already thirteen days in, and here is the first new issue of Caesura, a newsletter that is happy to have you on board as we, — and I mean...

2022 in My Favorite Things

Here is another “the end of year”— type of list, where people bullshit about things they have done, seen, experienced, touched, thought of, heard, perceived, analyzed, dramatized and traumatized over...

2022 in Reading

This is the first year I kept track of books I have read, mostly as an accountability mechanism, but also in the hope that it will make me to read more. To be honest, looking at books I read in 2022,...

Back to Basics

This issue is hard to write. I have taken a considerable break from Caesura due to variety of reasons like job overload, laziness as well as winter mood swings — usual stuff. I feel like I have lost...

Omniculturalist

On a sunny day I regret sitting inside the apartment and staring at my work screen. I have this urge to be outside and catch the sun before it sets at 4PM. Sometimes the sunlight fills up my...

Hunger on Hillside

The other day I was thinking about confidence and what makes me feel confident. I had to do a series of presentations at work, so this question settled in my mind for quite some time. I figured out...

Less Ego, More Wealth

November has come. Days got shorter and I spend more time in darkness, under artificial light, longing for the summer sun. And yet, this kind of grey weather has its own charm and I quite enjoy...

I Started Running 2 Years Ago

We are often stuck in the middle of the week without any idea where it is going. We spend Monday and Tuesday still missing Saturday and Sunday. We arrive to Wednesday with the hope for Friday’s...

I Just Wanna Be

How are you? No, really — how are you? What are you feeling? What are you thinking? Where are you right now? Sometimes I feel bad about bombarding you with my texts, views, links and other stuff...

Reaching Space

Did you hear about the claustrophobic astronaut? He just needed a little space. 

Jazz Codes

This issue was not easy to write. From the initial overflow of ideas to the blank emptiness of the white page, the process of compiling this issue of Caesura was a long mental journey involving...

Keep it Quiet

I stole a single coffee bean from a coffee shop. I am not sure exactly why, but it has something to do with me no longer drinking coffee and finding it to be difficult in this coffee-driven...

Why We Need to Invest in Intellectual Diversity

It’s getting colder and colder, although the summer was here just a couple of weeks ago, and so it is I — Adil — once again writing to you, kind subscriber to Caesura, this newsletter.

Is Being Happy Wrong?

Summer is gone in Budapest, the heat was fighting back for a week, but eventually the weather settled for an autumn coolness. I am running late evenings and early mornings and I feel that the air is...

Discover Yourself in Writing

Writing, then, by default implies exploration, discovery and learning. You pull out bits of you onto the page, and pull in bits of findings about yourself.

Hedgehogs and Foxes

Reading on the screen

These are small things that some time ago were considered so minor that we did not pay attention. Getting into books and exploring the journeys they offer balanced these off.

Visualizing Climate Finance

Last months we witnessed direct effects of climate change. To educate myself more about climate issues, I decided to visualize the data about climate finance.

Saturday Morning

Born to Run

I will tell it right now - this book has changed the way I run, and my attitude toward running.

Is there Global Governance for Data?

Global data governance is in its emerging fragmented form. I argue that there two reasons for this fragmentation: a clear divide between winners and losers and a lack of suitable political arrangements that would accommodate their differences.

On Having a Coffee ☕

Habit of Daily Writing

Running and Tech

Over time, I noticed that I think more about the final result of my run in the running app rather than the process of running.

Today was Monday

Moved and moved on!

More about moving

Moving, the future and about being a person first

US is on the way to data governance

Visualizing Data Governance in Trade Agreements

The Trade Agreements Provisions on Electronic-Commerce and Data (TAPED) provides comprehensive data on international trade agreements with the focus on digital trade. To this date, it is the only known dataset that specifically codes trade agreements based on their data-related provisions.

Visualizing Digital Rights

Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index (RDR Index) measures how accountable digital platforms and telecommunication companies in their businesses towards consumers in three broad areas: governance, freedom of expression and privacy.

Functional Art

As I dive more into data visualization, I started to read more of design and data visualization books. I think I could not have had a better introduction to the field than this.

Visualizing AML Risk

Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is an intergovernmental body that creates international rules on anti-money laundering. We will look at data on compliance levels of 172 countries with FATF Recommendations.

Visualizing International Organizations

On Running

You wonder if you are moving faster than walking people. But you cannot run faster. As soon as you add up the tempo, you will expire like an outdated dark banana that was left in the fridge for too long.

Future Politics

Why We Fail at Managing Global Disruptions

Time is political

Agile Global Governance