Category: Weekly Reviews
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Weekly Review – November 25th to December 02
Normally, I conduct my weekly reviews on Sunday, on a weekend where I am less pressed for time, a period of time that I can sit down and reflect. However, I had Elliott this past weekend — at the moment, alternating weekends — and by the end of Sunday evening, at 5:00pm, when her mother…
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Week in Review: 2021/01/17 – 2021/01/24
Not too much to report this week. Not because nothing happened, but because I wasn’t at diligent in capturing this week’s activities; I was on-call this week and carrying the pager almost always disrupts my flow, this week being no exception. My pager alarmed me out of bed several times (e.g. 12:30 AM, 2:30 AM,…
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Weekly Review – Week ending in 2020/11/01
No Halloween this year I used to love Halloween growing up, not so much the dressing up part but the knocking on doors and getting handed fist fulls of candy. Now, as an adult, I love returning the favor and always think about giving out larger than average candy and chocolate. But not this year,…
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Weekly Review – Week ending in 2020/10/11
I’m shattered. This past week really broke me, the numerous 3:30 AM wake ups and the long operational issues running until 09:30 PM (past the time I’d like to be asleep). To recover from this taxing work week, I’m taking next Thursday and Friday off. Despite the rough week, I’m relieved that my wife and…
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Weekly Review & Week ending in 2020/10/03
This weekly review is the first one that I’m typing from my home office in our new Renton house. And being in this new house feels good, feels great. I feel extremely blessed and luckily. And although I do know that Jess and I and Elliott and the dogs could live contently even if the…
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Weekly Review: week ending in 2020/09/27
This past week, I skipped writing my daily reviews for two days in a row because I was really pressed for time. On the days that I skipped, I immediately started studying for the midterm exam as soon as I woke up. Looking back, I regret not writing anything down. Because I’ve already forgotten the…
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Weekly Review: week ending in 2020/09/06
Another installment of my weekly reviews. I think the practice of carving out around 30 minutes on Sunday to look back at the previous week and look forward for the next week helps me in several ways. First, the posts help me recognize my tiny little victories that I often neglect and they also help…
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Losing 2 hours searching for a website bookmark & Weekly Review: week ending in 2020/09/06
My weekly review that normally takes place first thing in the morning on Sundays was completely derailed this time around, all because I could find the URL to a website that I had sworn I bookmarked for my wife’s birthday present. I ended up coughing up two hours of searching: searching directly on Reddit’s website…
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Weekly Review – Week ending in 2020/09/06
Writing I’m getting much more comfortable with publishing blog posts that are not completely polished. The fear of letting the world see less my less the perfect propose is utter non-sense. In fact, writing and publishing frequently offers two benefits. The first is that the sheer act of writing and setting words on (digital) paper…
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Weekly Review – Week ending in 2020/08/30
Writing Developed a manageable cadence of blogging a single blog post every day, most of them daily reviews or notes taken during advanced operating systems Writing the daily reviews (each entry eats up about 15 minutes of my morning) help me not only plant my two feet in the ground and settle for the day,…
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Weekly Review – 2020/08/17 – 2020/08/23
Writing Wrote and published close to a dozen blog posts over the past week, creating a new cadence of bite-sized posts instead of large pieces that sit in draft mode Feeling more confident about my digital organization system, storing all my books and articles and journals consistently, naming them author_year and storing them into DevonThink…
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Weekly Review – 2020/08/09 – 2020/08/16
Past Week Published 8 blog posts within a week. I’m developing a cadence, aiming for one (very) short blog posts a day and one medium blog post per week. I think this target is manageable and S.M.A.R.T and will help force me to get in the habit of shipping small fragments instead of never shipping…