They may look like extras from the live-action One Piece, but that’s really me onstage on the patio at Bahama Breeze at Rocky Point (which won’t be open for much longer) with the evening’s guitarist,…

My week notes for week 33 of 2026

A good course on The Power of Deep Listening from Udemy – https://www.udemy.com/certificate/UC-32788082-4681-44d9-8798-eb76846b6bbf/ The post Course: “The Power of Deep Listening (Using…

I've begun returning to work now. My work in the archives has begun, and I have recently also been put to help with the organisation of the scores. When I first applied for this exchange I thought…

I’m not a shopper. Ever since I quit my job as an unhappy marketing manager six years ago, I’ve fought hard to avoid buying things that aren’t absolutely necessary for my well-being. That’s why I…

In a few days, I return to work for the 2026-2027 school year. This is the longest I’ve ever been in one district (three years, thanks to lay-offs), and never have I ever dreaded the start of a…

I’m sorry to share that Avis Jean (Evergreen) Hastings-Hacker merged with the Great Beyond last night at around 8:30 last night. She had recently spent four months in a convalescent home, dealing…

7 ways SDRs and AEs work together.

A working demo used to cost six weeks of somebody's life. Now it costs a weekend — and your executives are still reading it as a credential.

Hell of a good time!

Interesting days. The vacation, the problem with the Udemy payment, waiting to get paid back, the "low" funds in the account, the falling Udemy/PLCDojo revenue. My innate personality is very…

Among the things I wrote in a letter I’ll leave with my daughter after we move her into her dorm for freshman year tomorrow: A good classroom contains a mix of truth-seeking and social…

Every project has way more things to do than resources allotted. That is a given for pretty much any human endeavor. Figuring out what to work on is the interesting part. When it comes to software…

hey future self, i always have my best ideas when im driving, and it sucks bc i cant text and drive so i have to jus hope i remember/hold onto that thought until i get to my destination or can pull…

Back in 2007 when I started in IT, receiving a meeting invite was a highlight. Somebody took notice of me and, maybe, even considered me valuable in one way or another. Turns out, most invites we…

Source: CNBC Do you focus only on success at your team’s weekly meetings? When Larry Culp took over at GE, the company was in big trouble. Some thought the company could not be rescued. Yet, Culp…

Will AI get more powerful and what are the implications for people that create new businesses?

What moves us to frustration might also be what changes the world.

Hey, Bear. Getting deployed soon. For the first time I'm feeling really anxious. I really don't want to go. Not sure why, after the trip back home this military service kinda washed off me. We don't…

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I just finished re-reading Ted Chiang' "Story of your life", and a number of things clicked in my head. You may have picked up that I read this novel at the same time as I was working on my Ph.D.…

📚 I'm doing Blaugust this year. This is 11/? posts. I couldn't keep up with my weeknotes this year but I enjoyed writing them :( especially the media round-ups - books and film - as I found I often…

Self-portrait / Rolleiflex 2.8D STATUS : Getting rid of something every day feels really good TODO : Decide about moving the external drives back to Linux READING : "Platform Decay" by Martha Wells…

I never consciously chose to become a hermit. Yet, after deleting social media and confronting just how isolated I’ve become, I’m starting to feel like one.

This is the weekly sniff. A roundup of links (linkdump) from the optimistically last week but more likely last month.

I was nearly scammed recently, which would have resulted in the scammer getting access to my credit card. Friday afternoon last week, I got a…

It’s okay, I guess.

Busy readers skim headings and reads little else.Think of the committee member turning to your report the night before the committee meets, the chief executive rushing through a briefing note between…

One more flip! 📖

If you get yourself into a mission you’re aligned with and pick up some momentum, it will become highly fulfilling to take it seriously, put forth hard work, and try to push the limits on what’s…

The best career advice for young people is to just focus relentlessly on 3 things:

Writing about Charles Jordan MBE, preparing for his funeral, and just after taking stock of everything we have built around the West Midlands Cyber Hub, made me think about founders and stewardship.…

Heatwave No. 5. A funeral. Storage Battery installed. Longtown Show. Project Fill Skip. Gym on Tuesday then into Hereford for a hot, hot shop at Tesco’s and Lidl. And to pop into Belmont…

With apologies to James Joyce, here’s a post on the Cy Young Award, to be awarded this season, for the sixtieth time, to the best pitcher in each league, as voted by the Baseball Writers’…

Sheesh, moving is hard. We’re so close to having everything out of my sister’s house. The painters showed up to start prepping the house and kindly offered to help carry stuff out for us.…

• We went to Leukerbad with friends visiting from Sweden • Should come there again soon; pretty nice place with lots of hikes around • Finally +23 in Zürich •...

We’re so different. She brought gifts from Hong Kong: a moisturizer, hair mascara, hair treatment oil, and face masks. I know what the moisturizer and face masks are for; I have no idea what hair…

Early companies don't need another pat on the back. They need customers, and they need someone to tell them the truth. Instead they get encouragement. Advisors who won't say the hard thing. Grant…

vibe: drinking vietnamese iced coffee, just came back from eating dinner (braised pork and rice and soup dumplings), nick is changing guitar string that he broke another week i did nothing!!! i'm so…

Hi it's 10pm it's Monday I'm gonna get this blog out before I go to bed. Another busy week (I could probably start almost every post with that). Monday I did get my Switch 2 about 30 minutes after I…

A friend let me know about Olly’s recent blog post. Olly owns and operates Pagecord, a very nice blogging service running in the same world as Pika. It sounds like...

One of the core problems of memory and recall is making ideas stick in the long run. I have been a huge proponent of Anki flashcards for pure memorization. However, some ideas are better suited for…

A health crisis can make you think about a lot of things. The post Take Up Space And Live appeared first on Fernando Gros.

Only recently have I been branding myself as an extrovert. Or more specifically, an "American Introvert", which apparently is still extroverted on the global scale. I don't like putting people in…

When you are working on a big project, the common advice is to work backwards. Work back from the vision you have or the end you are seeking. But what if you don’t have the vision or don’t know what…

Was late for a thing on Saturday because I thought it wasn’t until Sunday. In my defence, it’s ripe for confusion that Sat and Sun begin with the same letter. If you think about it, there are so many…

Part 3 of the 20th Anniversary Series of Posts. The 20th anniversary was on Thursday, Aug 13. First, the blog stats as reported by Google. I've my doubts as to some of the numbers and you should know…

How to turn notes, sources, and ideas into a living knowledge system, with real examples from study, work, and writing.

Did you know that LinkedIn caps you at 200 connection requests per week? There are a few finite resources in the world, but nothing seems as finite as LinkedIn’s connection requests. One of the…

I present two stubby half-baked takes that aren't meaty enough to warrant their own posts. (Epistemic status: just enjoying the sound of my own voice) 1. In pre-industrial societies that rely on…