Category Archives: Spirituality

Weeknote for 3/9/2025

Posted on March 20, 2025 by Andy

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

Posted on March 17, 2025 by Andy

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 2/9/2025

Posted on February 12, 2025 by Andy

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

Posted on February 5, 2025 by Andy

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

Posted on January 27, 2025 by Andy

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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Weeknote for 1/19/2025

Posted on January 26, 2025 by Andy

Learning 🤔 In Productive Failure Manu Kapur gave me a bit more courage to try things and fail at them. It’s a deep dive into the research on failure and learning, complete with design principles for lessons that incorporate failure. … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 1/12/2025

Posted on January 17, 2025 by Andy

Decision making 😌 I got some decision making exercise while settling on some new earbuds. They were the last item in my list of electronics to upgrade. Annoyingly, there were a lot of options with no clear winners. So as … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 1/5/2025

Posted on January 6, 2025 by Andy

Health 😕 I came down with something Tuesday and spent the week sick. I assumed it was probably COVID, since that’s the only thing I catch anymore, but my tests came up negative, so I’m guessing it was the flu, … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 12/29/2024

Posted on January 1, 2025 by Andy

Holidays 🙂 We got into the swing of our still low-key vacation. Once Abbie and Colleen arrived, our family gathering felt complete and a bit livelier, though overall it was another quiet week of Christmas together, which mostly suited me … Continue reading →

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Weeknote for 12/15/2024

Posted on December 16, 2024 by Andy

Holidays 😌 I finished my Christmas shopping and made some more progress on the gift labels. I want to get through the main work on those in the next few days, but I’m far enough along that they shouldn’t be … Continue reading →