{"id":911,"date":"2018-02-04T22:16:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T04:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=911"},"modified":"2018-02-26T01:24:14","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T07:24:14","slug":"update-for-2-4-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2018\/02\/04\/update-for-2-4-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Update for 2\/4\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Work<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I decided to do my 5-year service award, which meant my boss and I had to write statements for the CEO to read in chapel. We made it through the ordeal, and it turned out well. In my comments I shouted out the lunchtime board game group for getting me to connect with people outside my department.<\/p>\n<h2>Health<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I picked up my glasses on Monday, and since then I&#8217;ve even put them on a few times to get used to them. I feel like I&#8217;m looking through some kind of strange microscope, but it&#8217;s nice to be able to see tree branches clearly again after 15 years.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Bej46aegeHz\/\" data-instgrm-version=\"8\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 50.0% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\">\n<div style=\"background: url(data:image\/png; base64,ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaacwaaaascamaaaapwqozaaaabgdbtueaalgpc\/xhbqaaaafzukdcak7ohokaaaamuexurczmzpf399fx1+bm5mzy9amaaadisurbvdjlvzxbesmgces5\/p8\/t9furvcrmu73jwlzosgsiizurcjo\/ad+eqjjb4hv8bft+idpqocx1wjosbfhh2xssxeiyn3uli\/6mnree07uiwjev8ueowds88ly97kqytlijkktuybbruayvh5wohixmpi5we58ek028czwyuqdlkpg1bkb4nnm+veanfhqn1k4+gpt6ugqcvu2h2ovuif\/gwufyy8owepdyzsa3avcqpvovvzzz2vtnn2wu8qzvjddeto90gsy9mvlqtgysy231mxry6i2ggqjrty0l8fxcxfcbbhwrsyyaaaaaelftksuqmcc); display: block; height: 44px; margin: 0 auto -44px; position: relative; top: -22px; width: 44px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Bej46aegeHz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Take that, DMV! #glasses<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\">A post shared by <a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thinkulum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Andy Culbertson<\/a> (@thinkulum) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2018-01-30T04:48:48+00:00\">Jan 29, 2018 at 8:48pm PST<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async defer src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Thinking<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83e\udd14<\/p>\n<p>I posted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/w\/index.php?title=Analysis&amp;diff=322&amp;oldid=321\">another section<\/a> of my analysis essay. It&#8217;s going more slowly than I&#8217;d hoped.<\/p>\n<p>One reason it&#8217;s going slowly is that I decided I needed a systems theory book. The field of systems theory is, a little ironically, a mess. So a lot of last week&#8217;s project time went into researching that. I settled on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Systems-Thinking-Practice-30-Year-Retrospective\/dp\/0471986062\"><em>Systems Thinking, Systems Practice<\/em><\/a>, a detailed and somewhat up-to-date overview with application methods by a prominent systems researcher, Peter Checkland.<\/p>\n<p>My next book hunt will be on design thinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work \ud83d\ude42 I decided to do my 5-year service award, which meant my boss and I had to write statements for the CEO to read in chapel. We made it through the ordeal, and it turned out well. In my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2018\/02\/04\/update-for-2-4-2018\/\">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":[180,111,179,167,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis","category-health","category-thinking","category-weeknotes","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","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=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":930,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions\/930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}