{"id":1822,"date":"2022-09-04T23:58:36","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T04:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=1822"},"modified":"2022-09-04T23:58:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T04:58:36","slug":"weeknote-for-9-4-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2022\/09\/04\/weeknote-for-9-4-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Weeknote for 9\/4\/2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Productivity<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><strong>Last week I made lots of progress on integrating my Nirvana import into my Notion setup.<\/strong> This week I&#8217;ll try to finish that and return to the Evernote import.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;ve spent the past several weeks streamlining the process of writing these weeknotes so I finish them sooner while maintaining their quality.<\/strong> My initial experiments made the writing take even more time, but I think this two-sentence format will work as both a quick report and a conversation starter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My boss started an occasional lunchtime discussion group for a few of us who are into productivity systems.<\/strong> There are endless opportunities to learn about productivity and discuss it online, but it&#8217;s a different experience\u2014reassuring and energizing\u2014talking about things in a group in person.<\/p>\n<h2>Programming<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>SQL: A Comparative Survey<\/em> by Hugh Darwen might be where I start when I learn SQL more seriously because the book aligns its discussions of the language so carefully with its explanations of relational theory.<\/strong> But my reading will also include a book or two by SQL defender Joe Celko, who I discovered while researching Darwen and Date&#8217;s views.<\/p>\n<h2>Politics<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83e\udd14<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>After the Fall<\/em> by Ben Rhodes gave me more details on Russia&#8217;s struggles with democracy and a better perspective on China&#8217;s.<\/strong> I admit I&#8217;m susceptible to the formula of making a situation sound dire and then relieving and motivating the audience with potential solutions, and I did feel more hopeful at the end, though the author&#8217;s optimism was based more on the general possibility of solutions than on specifics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Productivity \ud83d\ude42 Last week I made lots of progress on integrating my Nirvana import into my Notion setup. This week I&#8217;ll try to finish that and return to the Evernote import. I&#8217;ve spent the past several weeks streamlining the process &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2022\/09\/04\/weeknote-for-9-4-2022\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,50,13,167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-productivity","category-programming","category-weeknotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1823,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions\/1823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}