Notes for week 45 of 2021

Bureaucracy week. I was catching up with accumulated errands and updating my data with the government.

As I’ve been catching up with my feeds, I took it as a good opportunity to garden it and unsubscribe.

Random

Our e-government works way better than I thought. I’ve been able to set up an electronic identity remotely, verify it using “government email” and pair it with the existing yubikeys I have for the strongest access. The change setup was way easier than my expectations
I have tried acroyoga training and really liked it. I also maintained my habit of at least trying to break a bone everytime I do any form of yoga¹. While the bone seems to be holding, I am again up for limited activity in the next few weeks sigh
I’ve walked 15 km. I’ve been active for 3.9 hours during 7 activities. This week’s max speed was 16.1 km/h and I conquered 224 elevation meters.

You don’t need to work on hard problems: Hard problems may not be same ones as impactful ones
What to learn: On learning in development and related areas
10 Habits That Help Me as a Manager — Marty Matheny: An inspiration if you are a very structured manager
Citation Needed: This is fascinating, on many levels. Why are fields 0-indexed and what does it have to do with the president of IBM doing yacht racing?
Neuroscience Reveals People Who Make the Right Choice Between These 2 Things Learn Faster and Retain Information Better: Exercise verifyably helps memory retention
On Margery Kempe and the Bad Art Friend: On performative sacrifices
Please Don’t Give Up On Having Kids Because Of Climate Change: Take that’s only optimistic if you are a First World citizen

Last time I tried, I broke a rib and cracked two. Fair, it may have had something to do with falling off a snowboard before, but I maintain my opinion that yoga is not safe ↩︎

Published November 14, 2021 in Weekly Notes and tagged Weekly Notes