Weeknotes 2418
The week (i.e., week 2 of my mini-sabbatical) was low-key. Spent a little time working on organizing and setting up goals via OKRIER: My technique borrows from the OKR
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David Nuñez: Prototyping the future, one coffee break at a time.
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I have a confession. Somewhere in middle of Act II of Hamilton, I think between "The Adams Administration" and "We Know," I fell fast asleep. This
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Choose Your Own Adventure
Hello friend, Due to my choices, I died many, many times when I was a child. Luckily, I kept my fingers inside the pages and could always undo my mistakes.
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Bricolage 002
Hello friend, This is another Bricolage episode of the newsletter. From the first Bricolage: I made a plan for weeks like this, where an extended essay on a single theme
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Election Day 2020
Hello friend, Today is Election Day in the United States in the middle of a pandemic. Citizens will participate in a presidential election that will be a crucible for the
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Error 1202
Aboard the Lunar Module Eagle (LM-5), Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were 30,000 feet above the moon surface and rapidly descending. It was July 24, 1969, and The Apollo
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(Not So) Quiet, Please
Dak Prescott, the 27-year-old quarterback for NFL's Dallas Cowboys, suffered an especially gruesome ankle injury last Sunday. I don't recommend looking it up. Suffice it to
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Bricolage 001
Hello friend, When I started this Soulful Computing newsletter project, I promised myself that I would prioritize consistent publication. I'll send out a newsletter every week, no matter
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Eye to Eye
Dressed in a long-sleeved, untucked white shirt, he climbs onto a platform in front of the audience. For the next ten minutes, he says nothing at all as he looks
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Press 1 to Continue
I had a meeting with a colleague a few days ago, and she requested that instead of a video chat over Zoom, we should pick up the phone and have
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Time is Weird in 2020
Time is weird in 2020, wouldn't you agree? I've been thinking a lot lately about a practice I learned from my friend, Jamie Zigelbaum, when we
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Freediving into a Spreadsheet
Dan Bricklin's professors at the Harvard Business School thought he was wasting his time creating an electronic substitute for the paper ledgers he and his classmates were using
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