2024 Week 14 - Weekly Notes

Great relationships are built, not discovered.

— Logan Ury

Last week, I launched the Stream which I’m proud of. I finally have a short space to write things down quickly and post to the website, rather than the longer posts for my essays. It all blurs together as I work on different output types. At some point, I want a more robust content funnel for writing. Or somewhere I can see the progress of different writing pieces visible on one dashboard.

• Last week was April Fools. For the roundup, we have AdWeek’s Stunts, Pranks and Fools, big brands trying to give us a laugh, and more pranks.
• Moonbird - The world’s first handheld breathing coach
• Mobius Labs GmbH - Towards 1-bit Machine Learning Models
• The New York Times - The Impressionists’ First Flowering Is Still Fresh After 150 Years
• Baldur Bjarnason - The one about the web developer job market
• Relocate.md - Is Europe Better Than America for Working in Tech? - There’s pros and cons for sure. YMMV
• First Round - Investing in Internal Documentation: A Brick-by-Brick Guide for Startups
• Dusty Phillips - We Rewrote our React App in Svelte in Three Weeks
• Leila Clark - 101 things I would tell my self from 10 years ago
  • Also, her take on The Tragedy of West Oakland
• Elly Loel - Front-end development’s identity crisis
• A summary of Dan Murray-Serter on Twitter/X
  1. Do a brain dump
  2. Separate Tasks. Like an Eisenhower Matrix
  3. Create a Morning Routine list (I’ve got mine under the start-up tasks)
  4. Time Block
  5. Connect Tasks to Goals
  6. Stop Overloading your list
     • 3-5 major tasks and 1-2 minor tasks are enough.
  7. Review your list at the end of the day
     • Celebrate the wins
     • Analyze what’s missed (which helps tomorrow’s list)
• CNN - Taiwan earthquake with 7.4 magnitude is strongest in 25 years
• Frank Liu - a16z Blogs Are Just Glorified Marketing
• Vadim Kravcenko - Mental Health in Software Engineering
• The Ringer - The Long, Sad Story of the Stealing of the Oakland A’s. As someone who grew up going to A’s games, this one’s a heartbreaker.
• Yuval Abraham on +972 Mag - ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza

Obits

• Chance Perdomo Dead: ‘Gen V’ Star Was 27

Notable Videos

• Primer about the .xz hack