Came home to a mess of needles, ornaments, and water. Our Christmas tree fell over! George looked very nervous, as if I would blame him for it. The tree is back up and tied to the wall with some rope. Hopefully that fixes it
❄️ 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge - Day 3: Firelight
❄️ 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge - Day 2: Cozy
❄️ 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge - Day 1: Frost
Building a Commonplace Book System that actually works for me
Establishing a personal reading and note-taking system to improve the retrieval of insights by consolidating information into one searchable archive rather than relying on multiple fragmented tools.
🖖 Star Trek: Khan was better than I expected with a nice character arc for Khan. The Vulcan Hello podcast has a nice review too
🏃♂️ I might regret this
🐶 George is a good pillow
And yet, despite being everywhere, RSS is somehow invisible. It’s the plumbing of the web: essential, reliable, and routinely underestimated. Most people who consume news this way don’t know they’re using RSS, and a surprising number of people who work in media don’t know they’re dependent on it for much of their reach and many of their partnerships.
Inspired by Ben Werdmuller‘s post, I’ve recommitted to Reeder. I’ve moved all of my feeds, newsletters, YouTube subscriptions, and podcasts into the app to have one place to get everything. Reeder has a great, clean interface that integrates all of these sources well.
🏃♂️ Ice and snow on today’s run made for a good ankle workout
Finished reading: I enjoyed Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky. An imaginative mix of ecology, evolution, and sociology📚
🎶 David Byrne’s Tiny Desk Concert is great fun
🍕 Cooking pizza while it snows
Finished reading: Medieval Horizons by Ian Mortimer makes a good case that the Middle Ages were a dynamic period that made many contributions to our modern world 📚
🐶 Bacon please
🏃♂️ Although the novelty will wear off quickly, fun to have a proper winter run
Been a while since I did a Spartan race. I’ve got some training to do
💰 We’re integrating the Q3 forecast for an infrastructure project. A clear sign of inadequate forecasting is missing seasonality. We expect 10–20% reduction through December, given holidays. So, when we get a forecast showing flat or increasing costs in the month, a closer look is required.
Finished reading: Wayward by Blake Crouch does what a second book in a trilogy needs to do. I’ll reserve judgement until I’ve read the third book to see if it pays off. 📚
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