Category Archives: Nature

Weeknote for 6/29/2025

Posted on August 9, 2025 by Andy

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 5/25/2025

Posted on July 26, 2025 by Andy

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

Posted on July 9, 2025 by Andy

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

Posted on July 6, 2025 by Andy

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

Posted on June 30, 2025 by Andy

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

Posted on June 18, 2025 by Andy

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

Posted on June 17, 2025 by Andy

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 4/6/2025

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 3/16/2025

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 3/2/2025

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 →