At long last, my schedule started slowing down this week! 🎉

Goal Progress

• Books: 2/18 📚
• Photos digitized: 5/500 🖼️
• Workouts: 3/7 💪
• GTD reviews: 3/7 daily, pending weekly

Work

• Nothing major to talk about at work this week. With fewer meetings, I had time to sit down and work through some project planning, along with some testing and hands-on engineering work.
• For the meetings I did have, I intentionally added breaks in my calendar to refocus, which seemed to help. I’ll be doing the same in the upcoming week.

Personal

• I still didn’t get my GTD practice back on track, unfortunately. I started working through my inbox backlog, but I think I still have a week or so of periodic work before I’m back to a truly “good” place.

Notable

• I finally got time to work on some photo digitization again this week! Not much progress, but a little is better than none.
• Game nights continued again this week, though nothing new. I may need to look at extending my collection soon to keep things interesting… I’d really like some more cooperative games, but not a full-fledged TTRPG (I think).

• On Saturday I went out to the 208 House with friends. As usual, the food was amazing! 🙂

Potpourri

• For personal use I’m still predominantly using Kagi Ultimate for LLM access, but this week I began experimenting with Claude Pro at work, and for certain types of interactions I was much more impressed with it than with the same model through Kagi. Which has me in a bit of a dilemma… Splitting work across multiple LLMs feels counterintuitive to me, but using whichever gives me better results is probably the right choice?
• A week ago today I saw Kev’s post wondering if our children/families will inherit our blogs. It’s a topic I’ve thought on briefly over the years, and seeing that Kev and others are pondering the same is interesting. I’ve wondered if I could set up a fund to pay for my website in perpetuity after I’m gone, or save everything into a book that I publish before death and give to family? 🤷‍♂️
• I also ran across the make a freaking website website this week (yeah, I edited that - I don’t like swearing). As someone who whole-heartedly advocates domain ownership and making your own website/blog, I thought it was completely worth sharing!
• …and one more post on blogging: lessons learned from 20 years & why you should blog by Adam Caudill. I’ve never run across Adam’s website before, but saw his post linked by someone I do follow, and enjoyed the read. Something he calls out that I need to focus on more is creating a website for yourself, not just a blog. While I have some extra pages on this site, it’s definitely an area I could improve in…