My friend Alan clued me in to the new trend of posting week notes on a blog just to make a list and talk through what you did. It's sort of a throwback in my mind to the earlier days of blogging when the writing was an "open diary" or "open journal" rather than what it is thought of today - a form of publishing. The vibes are very different between the two. This practice is a recovery of blogging's origins as a "web log," an online journaling practice that just allows you to dump everything that happened, everything you did, and everything that can't easily be classified between the two.
There is a humorous timeliness to the recovery of this kind of post thanks to Elon Musk. But this is a reduction and a simplification of human effort and experience. I don't think the Week Notes is meant for that. Instead it should be thought of as a way to reflect on what you did, tried, didn't do, etc. It can be expansive and constructive rather than an account, testimony, evidence, or proof that you are worth something to someone, anyone. That dark way of thinking about accomplishments pervades our lives. Maybe actual blogging, week notes, can chip away at that.
Here's my first attempt!
Last Week's Soundtrack is down from the previous week mostly because I wasn't listening to a lot of music! I only listened in the car or the gym. Last.fm is very good for seeing your music habits in the micro and the macro.
I moved all of my files off of my 5TB OneDrive provided by my university after I realized they would probably claim ownership of my writing, or delete it, or mess with it if they felt like it. This was a huge ordeal. I did clean off a lot of duplicates and now I'm in love with the Synology interface and software on my NAS more than I thought was possible.
I spilled about a pound of fancy coffee all over the floor one night before bed and my auto-delivery scale didn't trigger, so I'm drinking my emergency Costco coffee - and it tastes great! Is it quality or is it just change?
I edited the PR copy for my forthcoming book and suggested an alternate subtitle for it. Still considering re-writing the conclusion but why mess with what works? The word count is tight and I just know that if I were to do that I'd be at least 2k over what they want. I can just wait for the second edition, which they seem to think will happen. They know better than me! The second edition would be in 2028.
I sold my PS5 to my good friend and shipped it off. It didn't feel weird at all; it felt good! I realized that in a shared house you can't play a TV dedicated console ever. Plus the only thing I used it for was playing Fallout 76, a prior gen game. Once No Man's Sky allowed cross save, I moved everything to Steam and said by to it. Maybe I'm too old for consoles? I am eagerly looking forward to the new Pokemon game on Switch though.
Regularly making two 45 minute podcasts a week and it's fun. I realize I can just kind of chat about ideas and it is pretty good quality. You don't really need much in terms of a producer role. Podcasts are conversations!
Ok well that's the first attempt. Let's see how this next week goes. I wonder if I should arrange them around the Last FM conception of a week (Friday to Thursday). Kinda weird. Thoughts on this welcome!
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