Weeknotes: 2024-W45
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Summary
The week before I go back to work after a two months of leave - started to make sure my new routines would continue to work once back, and also reached out to some folks on how best to reintegrate back. Made some progress on a long-abandoned woodworking project.
Photos
(Based more on time of processing than time of taking…)
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Enjoying
- Reading:
- Fool’s Errand (The Tawny Man #1) by Robin Hobb
- Watching:
- Playing:
Highlights
After crunching a lot of data, they found that the only thing the productive employees had in common (other than having made it through the Bell Labs hiring process) was that “Workers with the most patents often shared lunch or breakfast with a Bell Labs electrical engineer named Harry Nyquist…” (p. 135).
– Harry Nyquist Wikipedia page
Poor Harry Nyquist wouldn’t be appropriately recognized in the “Big Tech” performance system…
Recommended
Acerola Particle System
Acerola is in my A-Tier must-watch list, and this video about using particles to visualize iterated function systems is a good example of why. Even if the meme-based B-roll (and, well, A-roll) gets to you at first, the rest of the content more than makes up for it!
Harshvardhan J. Pandit’s books page
Harshvardhan’s books page is inspirational - it’s a much better implementation of what I was slowly putting together as the replacement of my Goodreads page, and with history going back almost 30 years! Also, I like a lot of the books on that list (they’ve been reading Iain M. Banks and James S.A. Corey lately, for example).