Week Notes – Apr 22 to May 05 2025
👟 It has become warm enough to go for runs outside!
Apr 25 – 4.56km (pace 7:02 min/km)
May 02 – 6.6km (pace 7:04 min/km)
May 04 – 7.14km (pace 6:38 min/km)
🚶♀️➡️ I'm also doing more walks outdoors which is great after 8 hours stuck in an office with no windows and in those tiny cubicles.
🏢 The renovations at the office are still ongoing, and I can't wait to have my proper office space again! I hate the tiny cubicles situation. It will probably be done in a month or so, fingers crossed.
🛋️ We've installed some shelves in our living room.
📺 I'm watching “The Rings of Power” Season 2. I only watch it to see the dwarves, they are great!
📅 I'm using Cal Newport's Time Block Planner again. I have stopped using it for a few weeks, trying to use Outlook instead. But I prefer doing my daily planning on paper.
✅ The Nirvana app had some updates recently, and the biggest one was that all the interfaces (web, iOS, Android, Windows) are exactly the same now. I liked that now there are color themes, and I switched from the dark theme to the customizable colored one (dark blue is my favorite right now).
✏️ I wrote some thoughts about attention and how I feel so different from younger people nowadays.
📖 I finished reading this amazing sci-fi novella by Beth Revis: “Full Speed to a Crash Landing”. I absolutely loved it! I already got the second one from the library.
📖 I started reading “The Terraformers” by Annalee Newitz for my local Bookclub and it is great!
🧩 I started another puzzle. This one is a collage of all Iron Maiden album covers!
📌 Interesting reads I’ve come across these days:
- Reading RSS content is a skilled activity – David Oliver: On how to curate our RSS feeds and how it’s completely different from mainstream social media.
- Fitting a round peg into a genre-sized hole: It mentions a space opera book that’s been on my radar for a while. The article discusses books that were marketed in ways that didn’t align with their author’s intended genres. “The Cold Between” by Elizabeth Bonesteel was pitched to romance readers despite being a space opera with romantic elements, leading to poor reception. That caused the author to stop writing the series.
- Westley Winks :: How I journal: cool and sustainable way of journaling – 5 things!
- Writing Is Redirecting Attention | Brain Baking: It’s about focus on one thing a time.
- Bullying is never okay – 82MHz: I totally agree and I wish all the best to Brandon! (I also enjoyed reading his posts). 🙌
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By Noisy Deadlines Minimalist in progress, nerdy, introvert, skeptic. I don't leave without my e-reader.