Reviewing my notes I saw the phrase “rigor mitigation”. This is, of course, a failure of autocorrect and a reason why analogue is better than digital. But I’ve been exposed to corporate speak for so long that for a moment I thought it may have actually meant something.

Our eldest just missed a friend’s birthday party because the invitation went to mom’s overflowing and rarely checked personal email and not dad’s inbox nearly-zero. I’m used to school administrators not seeing fathers as the default parents, but having it come from another parent kind of stings.

Inspired by Derek Sivers, I now have a Now page. Thank you, Derek.

I wanted so very much to like morgen for its calendar helper services like automatic travel time, prep time, flexible meetings, etc. But then it throws this alert window with no explanation whatsoever for why on Earth it would need to access my microphone and nope, no way, hard pass.

Today’s quote in the Hobonichi planner — from their CEO, no less — is a good one:

It’s not so much that people who don’t practice, or don’t practice enough, want to play hooky. They just don’t know what to practice. If they knew what to do and how much to do it — how to practice and what goals to aim for — I think the situation would be completely different.

It reminded me of Tyler Cowen’s deliberate practice routine

The new and improved list of recommendations made using the new micro.blog interface is now on my profile. The next step is to figure out why they’re not showing on this page even though I’ve included the shortcode.

Today was carved out for converting my ye old Blogroll to the new format by exporting all the RSS feeds I follow to OPML and then doing a little bit of cleanup, but of course a little bit turned into a lot and I couldn’t stop fiddling and where oh where has the day gone?

Until next week!

I’ve delayed it for as long as possible, but for reasons beyond my control I have to start using time tracking software. The question is: Bluebird, RescueTime or something else entirely?

Writing and editing are distinct skills. As I gaze into a stream of text that someone else wrote and several more people edited, as I try to make sense of the reds and the greens and the teals of Word’s tracked changes stacked on top of the red squiggles and the double underlines, as the nested comments flow one after another until my (aging!?) M1 MacBook Air begins to stutter, I realize that, at heart, I am a writer.

Happy New Year!

The perks of being born in late December, after the (Gregorian) Christmas but before the New Year:

• No office birthday cakes
• A few big gifts instead of many small ones
• Birthday cards don’t pile up on top of work email
• Guaranteed time off to reflect on the impermanence of life