Weeknote #29 (20250406-20250412)

meta

sometimes, the week just slides on by, completely unremarkably. this was kinda one of those.

did

  • At work, I landed both big website PRs that I’d been working on for a while, which felt pretty good
  • I also got most of a rubella dataset done, and laid out a plan for the remaining work
  • I took Friday off, because I was getting a massage in the morning and just didn’t see going back to work after that. It was the right decision.
  • Watched the Thorns win Friday night
  • Went up to Portland Saturday for the final(?) meeting with the college admission consultant Mx18 worked with for the last year. Celebrated with too many xiaolongbao at Din Tai Fung

exercise & shoulder recovery

  • Sunday: morning stretches
  • Monday: morning stretches, afternoon gym (shoulder stuff, ez-bar curls, Bulgarian split squats)
  • Tuesday: morning stretches, 2.5 mile walk in the afternoon
  • Wednesday: morning stretches, afternoon gym (shoulder stuff, deadlifts, Zottman curls)
  • Thursday: morning stretches, costco trip (yes that counts as exercise, particularly the “carry stuff in and put it away” bit at the end of the process)
  • Friday: skipped morning stretches because massage; skipped gym because lazy
  • Saturday: skipped morning stretches again, and did NOT make up yesterday’s missed gym day — was still feeling the massage a bit and decided an additional rest day was probably a good idea

read

  • The always readable Glyph with “A Bigger Database”

    The practice of science — indeed any practice of the collection of meaningful information — must be done by intentionally and carefully selecting inclusion criteria, methodically and repeatedly curating our data, building a model that operates according to rules we understand and can verify, and verifying the data itself with repeated tests against nature. We cannot just hoover up whatever information happens to be conveniently available with no human intervention and hope it resolves to a correct model of reality by accident. We need to look where the keys are, not where the light is.

  • Mathowie on “Predictability and trust is key to American business, and they’re disappearing quickly”

    These are very grim times. Everyone I know with a small business is talking about shuttering and laying off employees. They can’t make predictions about what supply chains will look like in just a couple months and no one wants to increase their prices greatly.

listened

watched

  • Finished S2 of The Wire and started up S3
  • Parts of S1 and S2 of Ted Lasso (still SO GOOD)

cooked

photo

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