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Author Archives: Andy
Monthnote for 7/2025
Welcome to my first monthnote! They won’t all be this long. Games I hung out with some friends for a board game day Fourth of July. Leah and Nick hosted, who I know through Jeremy and Heather. It had been … Continue reading
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Weeknote for 6/29/2025
Website 🤔 I decided to switch my regular blog updates from weeknotes to monthnotes. When I started these weeknotes, it was to give myself some accountability to make consistent progress on my projects. They have done that to some degree. … Continue reading
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Weeknote for 6/22/2025
AI 🧐 I used AI to translate some old poetry. I’d been collecting use cases for AI, and I ran across another one while reading World Poetry. I asked Claude for help understanding some of the poems, and it was … Continue reading
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Weeknote for 6/15/2025
Modeling 😎 Michael C. Jackson’s Critical Systems Thinking and the Management of Complexity ticked all the boxes to become a major source for one of my life’s guiding concepts. When you’re trying to improve a situation, it helps to think … Continue reading
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Weeknote for 6/8/2025
Productivity 😌 I created a media tracker database in Notion to help me plan my watching, reading, and listening. It won’t cover every single thing, but it’ll lead me through my media journeys when they get more involved. I started … Continue reading
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Weeknote for 6/1/2025
Productivity 😬 I brushed up on my techniques for efficient programming. It was crunch time at work again, another chance to ponder the age-old question, how do you manage risk under uncertainty? Namely, how do you manage the risk of … Continue reading
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Weeknote for 5/25/2025
Productivity 🤔 I started reorienting my mind toward project writing. Instead of flopping onto my bed after work every day and scrolling social media in a haze of fatigue, I decided midweek I would give myself a topic to think … Continue reading
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Weeknote for 5/18/2025
Learning 🤔 I began exploring active learning exercises for learning complex material. My exploration was inspired by finding that working with ONIX feeds taught me a lot more about ONIX than reading the specification. The idea of this approach is … Continue reading
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Weeknote for 5/11/2025
Productivity 🙂 I started using the notes column in my schedule tracker to comment on events as they happen. Before I was only using it occasionally to identify my activities more specifically, but I realized I could make better use … Continue reading
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Weeknote for 5/4/2025
Work 🤓 I accompanied my boss to the ECPA Leadership Summit in Nashville. I was mainly there to meet with people from the new file distribution service we’ve signed up with, but the experience reminded me how easily I absorb … Continue reading
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