Category Archives: Productivity

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 6/8/2025

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 5/11/2025

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 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 3/9/2025

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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