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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 3/16/2025

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 3/9/2025

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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Weeknote for 3/2/2025

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

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Weeknote for 2/23/2025

Productivity 🤔 I got a bit more clarity on the idea of task urgency in the Eisenhower Matrix. I realized urgency is tied to how soon a task is due. But not every task has the same kind of due … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 2/16/2025

Productivity 😌 I finished simplifying the way I register in Notion which tasks I work on in a day. Why do I even want to keep track of this? Because my memory is such a fog that I grasp at … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 2/9/2025

Health 😐 I’m dealing with the remnants of my illness. My fever was gone Monday, but I still worked from home to spare my coworkers my coughing and any leftover germs. I’m probably not very contagious at this point, but … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 2/2/2025

Health 🤒 I got sick for the second time in a month. It started out as a cough on Tuesday and then by noon Wednesday had turned into a 102.6 fever. I’d slept all that morning and could barely move. … Continue reading

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Weeknote for 1/26/2025

Productivity 😌 I’m diving back into my productivity system update. My task management has been languishing under my awkward system while the holidays and other things took precedence. But now I’m getting back to it, if I can get past … Continue reading

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