Category Archives: Genres

Weeknote for 4/13/2025

Posted on May 21, 2025 by Andy

Productivity 🤓 I began simplifying my notes format into a chronological arrangement grouped under date headings. Up to that point my work journaling had taken the form of topical outlines with the aim of making my notes on each subtopic … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 4/6/2025

Posted on May 10, 2025 by Andy

Productivity 😬 The week leading up to April 6 was a truly busy one. I finished my election research and dropped off my ballot, handled another bureaucratic snag with my medication, did my taxes, and worked 52 hours while my … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 3/30/2025

Posted on April 24, 2025 by Andy

Productivity 🙂 At work I experimented with moving most of my admin tasks to the early afternoon. I’ve noticed that whatever I work on first tends to eat up most of my time and crowd out anything that comes later, … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 3/23/2025

Posted on April 22, 2025 by Andy

Productivity 🤔 From Jon Gertner’s The Idea Factory I learned how Bell Labs invented the whole modern telephone industry. They came up with everything from telephone poles and transistors to cell phones and satellite communication. Like some of the other … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 3/16/2025

Posted on April 17, 2025 by Andy

Website 🤔 I’m in catch-up mode, so these next few entries may be extra short. I’ve also taken the opportunity of this unintentional pause to think through some changes in how I write these weeknotes. I’ll have more to say … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 3/9/2025

Posted on March 20, 2025 by Andy

Productivity 😎 Ben Rich’s memoir Skunk Works gave me an aeronautics angle on adaptive development processes. I wanted to find out how R&D was done at a successful organization outside of software development and before the rise of Agile. Some … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 3/2/2025

Posted on March 17, 2025 by Andy

Productivity 🙂 I explored the application of CPU scheduling to human task management. A computer has a lot of tasks to juggle, and normally it flips between them so seamlessly, you don’t notice. How does it do that, and what … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 2/23/2025

Posted on March 4, 2025 by Andy

Productivity 🤔 I got a bit more clarity on the idea of task urgency in the Eisenhower Matrix. I realized urgency is tied to how soon a task is due. But not every task has the same kind of due … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 2/16/2025

Posted on February 19, 2025 by Andy

Productivity 😌 I finished simplifying the way I register in Notion which tasks I work on in a day. Why do I even want to keep track of this? Because my memory is such a fog that I grasp at … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 2/9/2025

Posted on February 12, 2025 by Andy

Health 😐 I’m dealing with the remnants of my illness. My fever was gone Monday, but I still worked from home to spare my coworkers my coughing and any leftover germs. I’m probably not very contagious at this point, but … Continue reading →