Weeknotes: 2025-W07

Published: 17 February, 2025, updated: 17 February, 2025

Summary

Finished my woodworking class and the woodworking parts of the tray I made during it (still needs some additional finish steps). Had a run of poor sleep and a sore knee, so rested up. Prepared for the mini-vacation we planned next week near Stanwood.

Photos

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

Figure after initial oil coat on tray

Backlit paper bark

Frosted possibly Snow-in-Summer

Enjoying

Reading:
- The Pariah (Covenant of Steel #1) by Anthony Ryan
Watching:
- 📺📅 Doc season 1
- 📺🏃 Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 7
- 📺🏃 Angel season 4
- Venom: The Last Dance (★★☆☆☆)
  - A bit stale, maybe phoning it in, and wasting what could have been a good opportunity to explore the other symbiotes and characters
- Kraven the Hunter (★★★☆☆)
  - Better than I expected. Fairly uneven across most areas, but some glimpses of what could have been good.
Playing:
- 🖥️ Stationeers

Newly discovered

My Life in Weeks

I came across Gina Trapani’s My Life in Weeks, which led me down a bit of a rabbit hole of people doing this sort of exercise, with most recent popularization via Wait But Why’s “Your Life in Weeks” post and via neo-“stoic” “Memento Mori” calendars.

Buster Benson’s “Life in Weeks” reinvigorated this idea a bit in 2020
Some day-based approaches (lots of scrolling!)
- “Day by Day” by Rory Flint
- “Days” by Rafał Pastuszak
Some tools for building them:
- Weeks of your life
- Life Calendar

Highlights

But it’s not algorithmic ranking per se that’s bad—it’s just that the algorithms you’re used to don’t care about your goals. That might be an inevitable consequence of “enshittification”, but the solution isn’t to avoid all algorithms, but just to avoid algorithms you can’t control. … I think the solution is to embrace algorithmic ranking, but insist on “control”—to insist that the algorithm serves your goals and not someone else’s.

– “Algorithmic ranking is unfairly maligned”