Weeknotes: 2024-W44

Published: 4 November, 2024, updated: 4 November, 2024

Summary

I used this week to make progress on some of my nascent systems:

• I started cataloging what I want to have in my week notes and outlining how to get that information, starting to experiment Readwise Reader (with Obsidian sync) and Obsidian Web Clipper.
• I designed a classification system (inspired very loosely on Johnny Decimal) for my file-based storage, named N5963 after ISO 5963:2015. I settled on Google Drive for now, and started downloading, scanning, and cataloging various things into it.

Photos

(Based more on time of processing than time of taking…)

Enjoying

• Playing:
  • Dragon Age: The Veilguard
• Watching:
  • 📺📅 Agatha All Along season 1
  • 📺🏃 Warehouse 13 season 3
• Reading:
  • Fool’s Errand (The Tawny Man #1) by Robin Hobb

Newly discovered

• Robohash allows you to have procedurally-generated images of robots (or cats) of whatever size for your mock-ups.
• Shepherd is a book recommendation discovery service that helped me add a few books to my reading list.

Highlights

People don’t have existential peace because they’ve figured out the meaning of life. They have existential peace because that’s their nature or because they’ve developed happy lives and healthy thought patterns that don’t lead to them spending their time moping around. Feeling like you understand the meaning of life is downstream of existential peace, not upstream.

– Against dystopian views of high-speed audiobook listening

The term implies to people a sense of coziness — “Oh, everything’s going to be great” — and that we’re all going to be nice to each other. That’s not what it’s really about. It’s about candor, about being direct, taking risks, and being willing to say, “I screwed that up.” It’s being willing to ask for help when you’re in over your head.

– Amy Edmondson, quoted in Psychological Safety vs. High Standards: A Misunderstood Dynamic (originally from this Harvard Business Review interview).

Recommended

Rat Run Season 2

“Rat Run” is a great series of variant Sudoku puzzles by Marty Sears, where you guide Finkz the rat through her path to the cupcake in a set of experiments. This is the start of season 2 - you might want to check out the first season, or maybe even try out the first puzzle yourself.

Stationeers Brutal Vulcan

Fellow South African export Large Unemployed’s most recent Stationeers play-through is as fun as it is crushingly hard. While this isn’t the best “how to learn to play the game” series, it’s probably the most enjoyable shorter-form Stationeers series I’ve watched.