Weeknotes: Dec. 14-20, 2024

Win of the week: took the whole week off work Looking forward to: finishing the blog posts I’m working on 😀 Stuff I did: I’m cranking away on a multi-post blog series 🦾 I was hoping to post the intro this week, but I realized I need to get the posts into a little bit […]

This week I took an aggressive initial pass on cleaning out my music library, trying to err on the side of removal. In the past, I’ve been hesitant to remove older tracks that I don’t listen to much for the sake of historical records, to keep old playlists playable. But now that I’ve cycled through […]

I like to read a lot of different writers because there’s so much cOnTeNt out there it’s easy to miss the good stuff; if multiple people are pointing to a piece it’s probably worth reading. And sometimes, writers will recontextualize something I did read: “look again.” Ah, you’re right, I didn’t catch that on the […]

(Ed. note: hello Hacker News folks! Since you may be new to my work, I wanted to provide a bit of context; for more of my thoughts on reading, please see My Reading Philosophy in 17 Guidelines) I prefer a lightweight nonfiction book to a detailed tome. I’m a dilettante of many interests, so my […]

The US has at least two different systems of what gets termed “socioeconomic class” by Siderea Economic class refers to money. It refers to the wealth or poverty of a person, and to the privileges they do or do not have because of their economic might or lack thereof. Social class is what is being […]