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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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Weeknote for 4/27/2025
Spirituality 🤔 A period of accumulating insights continued. These mainly crystallize during my morning devotions. The most significant was that life is a mix of experience that has waves and seasons—pain and joy, work and rest. Rather than hindering myself … Continue reading
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Weeknote for 4/20/2025
Website 🧐 I came to some decisions about next steps for my website. Given that my weeknotes were a month behind and writing them was often challenging even on a normal week when I wasn’t catching up, I spent a … Continue reading
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Weeknote for 4/13/2025
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
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
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
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
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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