Category Archives: Genres

Weeknote for 4/19/2020

Posted on April 19, 2020 by Andy

Website 🙂 I’m experimenting with adding text-to-speech to my site. Click the Listen button at the top of this post to hear it read by a life-like machine. I’ll probably try a few options, but this is a pretty good … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 4/12/2020

Posted on April 12, 2020 by Andy

Productivity 😎 In my continual quest not to waste my life, I seem to have taken a couple of significant steps forward in the past week, if they last. At the beginning of the week I picked up an idea … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 4/5/2020

Posted on April 5, 2020 by Andy

Programming 😐 I devoted almost the full 10 hours allotted to the project last week (Data Structures and Algorithms in Java by Robert Lafore), but I spent most of that time figuring out meta issues, like how exactly to take … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 3/29/2020

Posted on April 1, 2020 by Andy

COVID-19 😐 This pandemic means different things to different people. Something I realized after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami is that disasters are selective–the people living past the edge of the wave didn’t have their homes destroyed, and people inside … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 3/22/2020

Posted on March 26, 2020 by Andy

Learning 🙂 I had the notion that Josh Kaufman’s book The First 20 Hours would help me plan my projects, since many of them are about learning new skills, so I listened to that early in the week with the … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 3/15/2020

Posted on March 22, 2020 by Andy

Life maintenance Last week an article on my usual political blog advised that we stockpile a month of supplies in case of disruptions because of COVID-19, and it woke my inner prepper, so I acquired a new hobby of somewhat … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 3/8/2020

Posted on March 9, 2020 by Andy

Learning 🙂 Last week I (1) reread a lot of William Atkinson’s anti-mnemonics book, (2) filled out my list of mnemonic devices, (3) listed over 30 memory palaces I could use from my life, (4) got a handle on the … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 3/1/2020

Posted on March 3, 2020 by Andy

Learning 😎 Last week officially started my learning project, and I dashed out the plan and started the work, since I was so excited about it. The project’s purpose is to set up a learning system to experiment with, and … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 2/23/2020

Posted on February 25, 2020 by Andy

Sleep 🙂 After my degraded time management the week before, I had some success getting to bed earlier last week by using a Pomodoro timer to break up my work at the computer, which kept me from losing track of … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 2/16/2020

Posted on February 23, 2020 by Andy

Conceptual modeling 😐 I got through another two-and-a-half chapters and tweaked my note-taking method to take about half the time, at least in my very limited experiment. Instead of doing all my highlighting in one reading before taking notes, in … Continue reading →