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For my Kanban setup in Notion, I created a couple of task management features and reorganized some of the status info I\u2019m tracking.<\/strong> More specifically:<\/p>\n Coming up:<\/p>\n \ud83d\ude04<\/p>\n Convenience Store Woman<\/em> by Sayaka Murata reminded me that normal people are weird.<\/strong> It was very funny in places as main character Keiko Furukura tried to navigate normal society and understand how it worked and how she could fit in or at least keep it off her back. As cliche as it sounds, the book empowered me to be true to myself. If some aspect of the world finds me to be a natural voice it can speak through, then regardless of other people\u2019s preferences or agendas, maybe it should. The audio was narrated by Nancy Wu, who also read another book I enjoyed with a neurodivergent main character, Ada Hoffmann\u2019s The Outside<\/em>.<\/p>\n We had our first Brothers Karamazov<\/em> book group meeting.<\/strong> I\u2019m starting to see why the book has risen to the level of a classic. A lot of interesting thoughts were shared, and the discussion highlighted how much there was to unpack in the novel and how much may be going on under the surface.<\/p>\n \ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\n I spent the week making a covers playlist for the worship song \u201cYet Not I but Through Christ in Me.\u201d<\/strong> This song was in the lineup for our worship team at the start of the week, and it got stuck on repeat in my head as I was preparing for it. Whenever that happens with a song, I make a background project of assembling a playlist of its renditions ranked roughly in the order in which I like them. \u201cIs He Worthy?\u201d is an earlier example<\/a>. Here\u2019s my Spotify playlist for this one<\/a>. I\u2019m still shifting songs around a bit, but it\u2019s mostly in the right order now. Here\u2019s the YouTube video for the original band\u2019s live recording<\/a>. And here\u2019s the video for my favorite recording<\/a>.<\/p>\n Although I primarily do it out of obsession, there are a few benefits to this kind of exercise: (1) It lets me listen to the song a lot without getting tired of it so quickly. I even find different recordings playing in my head at different times. (2) It makes me aware of a bunch of different artists who\u2019ve recorded the song, so sometimes I look up their other music. And (3) It gets me to pay more attention to the lyrics<\/a> and musical features of the song, like a prolonged meditation on it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Productivity \ud83d\ude10 For my Kanban setup in Notion, I created a couple of task management features and reorganized some of the status info I\u2019m tracking. More specifically: I finished implementing a status advisor formula for parent tasks. When I collapse … Continue reading \n
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