2024 Week 43 - Weekly Notes
I changed up the format last week. In a way, itās a little more freeing because I donāt have to group everything with like things, necessarily. Plus, it gives me a chance to play around with looser organization.
With everything we have to move, most of my time and efforts at home at spent on that and not on the blog. Which makes sense - life sometimes has other priorities.
Bill Wear - the quiet art of attention
Dario Amodei - Machines of Loving Grace
Conferences IRL
Local Ghost - You should go to conferences
My general rule is to go to one in-person conference a year, if possible. Iāve certainly met my quota this year with !!Con. There are some I think I want to go to next year if possible, but of course, travel is a lot of work too.
blarg - Press Onward
How to microfrontend
Vercelās Blog - How Vercel adopted microfrontends
How Computers will use us
Introducing computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku \ Anthropic
Ars Technica - De-extinction company provides a progress report on thylacine efforts
Callback to learning
Kevin Li - Learning to learn
Some important learnings from my 20 years of engineering life
Matrescence
āMatrescence,ā and the Transformations of Motherhood | The New Yorker
Building as fast as I can
Streamlit ā¢ A faster way to build and share data apps
Recommendation Corner
Two books cropped up this week
- Endurance: Shackletonās Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing and Nathaniel Philbrick
- This came up because thereās this YouTube channel I started exploring about going to speed running every BART station stop. The current time to beat is 5 hrs 10 mins. I created my own wiki page to see how crazy this is and where people have attempted these riding challenges. Turns out, there are so many. Also, this book is a reminder in creating challenges for ourselves.
- Never Play It Safe: A Practical Guide to Freedom, Creativity, and a Life You Love by Chase Jarvis
- Iāve read at least one of Chaseās book
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