Weekly Notes 2026.05

2026-02-01 3 min read

This week actually ended up busier than the last, though unlike last week it was primarily during office hours. 🤔

Goal Progress

Somehow my meeting load at work went up this week, even though fewer people were in the office. I’d say 90+% were genuinely useful, so no real complaints. However…
… I’ve realized that I don’t have a good plan for decompressing after meetings or resetting my brain when switching gears. That’s something I started looking into this week in the evenings, and I may tweak how I block my calendar going forward to make sure I’m actually useful in all those conversations.

On Thursday I finished the audiobook of Apple in China. It was an interesting look at how one of the world’s largest companies became tied so closely to China and Chinese industry, and I actually learned some potentially useful stuff for my own career - at minimum, understanding the dynamic between US companies and Chinese CMs.
This week my GTD practice really started falling apart. I’ll need to spend some time this weekend and early next week getting back on the bandwagon. 😬

Game nights with M and her mother continued this week. Late in the week I introduced them to 3D5, a game I’ve had for years but rarely play. It’s a fun three-dimensional twist on Tic-Tac-Toe that requires some concentration. Unfortunately, it looks like it’s no longer produced…

I haven’t actually tried this myself yet, but I’ve seen a bunch of articles recently on OpenClaw (formerly ClawdBot), including this one by Federico Viticci on MacStories. Every time I’ve looked at similar concepts in the past, it feels like a solution looking for a problem I don’t know that I have… but that could just be me being stuck in my current workflow and struggling to adopt new tech. 🤷‍♂️
- The most interesting idea I’ve read (in another blog psot) is automatically pulling tasks out of meeting notes. But I think I need to get better at taking meeting notes before that works… 😉
I completely forgot to mention this last week: I saw a post from Cassidy Williams on tricks for getting discovered by LLMs and AI tools. Will I actually use any of the recommendations? Probably not… this is really more of a personal blog without a specific theme, but it’s helpful to know. I’ll keep an eye on https://llmstxt.org/, and maybe add a “/for-llms” page in the future.
Completely non-AI related: I ran across the Lolgato project a few weeks back, and while I haven’t tried it yet, next time I work from home for a few days it’ll probably get installed. For those unaware, I use Elgato lights in my conference call setup at home.