2025 Week 04 - Weekly Notes

This is the last week Morgan is around at home before she returns to work. We stayed at home as much as we could as the cold weather makes coat and boots required. We also decided to push back our house warming to the summer when Morgan’s parents can attend.

Notes

My co-worker, Marlone Akidiva, released a re-vamped website.

On the ruggedness and survivability - lessons from the LA Fires

• The Guardian - ‘It was built for this’: how design helped spare some homes from the LA wildfires | California wildfires
• What are the Basics of Building a Personal Climate Strategy?
• See also: - Schedule Appointment with Alex Steffen

I didn’t know Guy Pearce had left Hollywood

• With ‘The Brutalist,’ Guy Pearce Makes His Hollywood Return - The New York Times

This sounds like an app I wanna use when throwing anything together over the phone. Sounds important.

• NATO Phonetic Alphabet Converter

TikTok returns after going dark yesterday. And here’s a longer timeline.

• A Timeline of TikTok’s Evolution, From Dances to BookTok to the Supreme Court - The New York Times
• Supreme Court Rules on Potential TikTok Ban: Live Updates and What’s Next - The New York Times

I was looking through the calendar and contacts, in case I need to create vCards. And on what metadata I should save. Eventually, have LinkedIn scrapper. Maybe have public vs private pages?

• awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted: A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers

This GitHub repository about Fabric is used for YouTube to summary. Seems really cool and should be paired with an AI

• danielmiessler/fabric: fabric is an open-source framework for augmenting humans using AI. It provides a modular framework for solving specific problems using a crowdsourced set of AI prompts that can be used anywhere.

This looks like a fun alternative to other paper puzzle games

• Paper Apps™ NUTRI-TRACK Notebook – Gladden Design

Japanese stationary anyone? This would be cool to use with a notebook

• Connected Calendar Stamp / Shachihata – bungu

Vitamin D protection against brain volume losses, dementia, and cognitive impairment - FoundMyFitness Topic - Vitamin D

Ravi Patel opened up - A Trendsetting New Hotel in the Heart of Tucson | Official Site

I could not figure out yt-dlp with vimeo, so I downloaded akiomik/vimeo-dl: A cli tool to download private videos on vimeo. Written in golang.

Overlooked No More: Karen Wynn Fonstad, Who Mapped Tolkien’s Middle-earth - The New York Times

Chef José Andrés responds to President Trump’s ‘dismissal’ weeks after earning Presidential Medal of Freedom - Good Morning America

2024 Gems of the year winners - Obsidian

• ActionsDotWork — Productivity Tools for macOS & iOS
• No-Instructions/Relay: Multiplayer Mode for Obsidian

I started testing out deepseek’s models, and they are pretty comparable to ChatGPT

• DeepSeek
• DeepSeek - Into the Unknown
• Also, the o1 comparison is hard to make on the FrontierMath part - AI benchmarking organization criticized for waiting to disclose funding from OpenAI | TechCrunch

You’re Being Alienated From Your Own Attention - The Atlantic

Full Year Horizon Calendar (2025) - by Jesse J. Anderson

Deleted my Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and Messenger today. WhatsApp will remain on my phone. At least until I can figure out what to do with it.

How meditation changes your brain — for the better | Vox

Make a mixtape once a month. Customize it, make it your own. Austen Kleon makes cassette tapes with custom covers

• Making mixtapes - Austin Kleon

I read this long article from Vulture about the case against Neil Gaiman

• The Dark Secrets Behind the Neil Gaiman Abuse Accusations

A philosophy for a life lived with authenticity, levity, and chock full of love. Might be good to save.

• Welcome to Going Love First
• Love First is a framework for transforming your reality in a way that benefits all areas of your life, making you feel more connected to your best self, your loved ones, and the world around you.

Some good news for today: There are mall marriages because of the number of same-sex couples who want to be married in Thailand now that it’s legal.

• Thailand Starts Recognizing Same-Sex Marriage - The New York Times

• Fight like hell and find the right tool in your toolbox
• AOC talks about being the anti establishment ticket
• And the democrats are hypocrites. Like getting funding from the “good” billionaires.

Recommendations

• Book: Rob Sheffield - Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
• I love reading lists. This was Molly White book recommendations
• Sometimes these books made for kids sound really fun to flip through. - Lonely Planet Kids City Trails - Tokyo
• Book: Things Become Other Things — by Craig Mod
• Book:  Sponsor Magnet by Justin Moore
• Book: Aaron Stupple - The Sovereign Child: How a Forgotten Philosophy Can Liberate Kids and Their Parents
• Book: Amy Stewart - The Tree Collectors
• Book: Richie Norton: Anti-Time Management: Reclaim Your Time and Revolutionize Your Results with the Power of Time Tipping
• Book: Amy Tan - The Backyard Bird Chronicles

Obits

• Joan Plowright Dead: Acting Legend and Laurence Olivier’s Widow Was 95
• Cecile Richards, Former Planned Parenthood President, Dies at 67 - The New York Times