Weeknotes: Week 17, 2023
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✈️ I made two round trips to the airport this week to drop off and pick up the spousal unit, who went to Chicago for business.
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📣 Elon Musk’s “weekend-long master class in business failure” surrounding the blue tick debacle, as described by Alex Kirshner.
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🍭 And while we’re on the topic of narcissistic billionaires, Brian Klaas explains that to understand them, we need to understand “horizontal inequality, illusory control, self-selection bias, quantified self-worth, and the evolution of overconfidence.”
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📆 I’ve come to appreciate the focus that tear-off calendars provide. My current IRL favorites are the Effin’ Birds and Jeopardy! day-to-day calendars. In that spirit I made a very simple rolling ISO Week Calendar. Not sure it’ll be of any use to anyone but me, but there it is.
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💩 In the process of making the ISO Week Calendar, I was reminded how junky JavaScript is. And yes, I know all about JQuery and the others. Blah blah blah.
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🏓 Played some pickleball on Friday night. (God I’m old.) Followed up with some good food from our favorite Indian place.
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🌯 Finished the week with a visit to Athens, Ohio where I browsed the flea market at the Athens County ARA hamfest, enjoyed a humongous burrito at Casa Nueva, and strolled around the sunny OU campus.
Now Summary
Here are the things that were new on my NOW page this week: